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CLK-Pamela Aguilar <br />From: CD -Lindy Chan <br />Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 8:35 AM <br />To: CLK-Pamela Aguilar; CLK-Lupe Marin <br />Subject: FW: Bike and Ped. Safety Improvement Plan <br />Public comment for tonight's Council meeting on ECR <br />From: John Langbein [mailto:john_langbein@yahoo.comj <br />Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2019 4:16 PM <br />To: GRP -City Council <council@redwoodcity.org> <br />Cc: GRP-ElCaminoPlanning <elcaminoplan@redwoodcity.org> <br />Subject: Bike and Ped. Safety Improvement Plan <br />Redwood City Council -- <br />I am in favor of making improvements on EI Camino to enhance bicycle safety between Maple and <br />Charter. From where I live, near Selby Lane School in Redwood City, the segment between Charter and <br />Maple provides a very safe and convenient route for me to cycle to downtown Redwood City. (I would ride <br />via Selby Lane to Oakwood, Cypress, and Center.) I would hope that the City work with Caltrans to <br />provide additional bike enhancements for one more block to Center across from the Target shopping <br />center. <br />As someone who has been actively cycling for > 50 years, I do have some reservations about wisdom <br />protected bike lanes. Do they really provide enhanced safety, or do they provide a perceived sense of <br />safety to a novice cyclist and/or to the non -cyclist? For instance, at intersections with additional barriers, <br />do they really prevent the "right -hook" type of crash? And, although there is considerable effort in <br />redesigning intersections, how do protected bike lanes work with the numerous driveways as each <br />driveway is a source or "sink" for a turning motor vehicle? I don't have the answers as I have had only <br />minimal experience with protected bike lanes. <br />So, in short, I'd like to see protected bike lanes on ECR with the hopeful expectation that these lanes will <br />increase the bicycle traffic on ECR and contribute to the decreasing our reliance on the motor vehicle. But, <br />if protected lanes become too controversial, I'd like to see Class 2 bike lanes on ECR — That to me would <br />represent a significant enhancement such that I would use the facility. <br />John Langbein <br />Redwood City, CA <br />