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From: Amy Koo <br />To: PublicComment <br />Subject: Opposed to Soft Closure of Bridge Parkway <br />Date: Friday, April 24, 2020 11:12:56 PM <br />I walk several times a week across Bridge Parkway between Redwood Shores Pkwy and Marine Pkwy for <br />exercise, and I would be very much against a soft closure of one lane of Bridge Parkway. It is the main <br />east -west thoroughfare for cars in Redwood Shores which is why it has 2 lanes each way. Having a soft <br />closure of Bridge Pkwy will force cars to go onto other east -west thoroughfares that are only one lane <br />wide. I often walk on Shell parkway as part of the walking circuit and in order to socially distance, I step <br />out into the bike lane to pass pedestrians. If more cars go down Shell parkway because of the Bridge <br />Parkway closure, then every time I go into the bike lane to pass a pedestrian, I run the risk of getting hit <br />by a car. I have only had one close encounter walking across the Bridge where the path is narrow and <br />there's no way to observe the 6 ft social distance because you can't see the pedestrian coming up the <br />other side of the bridge until it's too late. Rather than close a lane to cars, we can put signs up that tell <br />pedestrians to walk in one direction - the same direction that the cars are going, and then you solve that <br />problem. For Shell parkway, only one side of the street has a sidewalk so it's not possible to have one <br />way pedestrian walkways. Bridge Parkway has sidewalks / paths on both sides of the street, so one way <br />walking would be the easy solution. <br />Amy Koo <br />amykoo&alum.mit.edu <br />