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From: Foster Kinnev To: PublicComment Subject: City Council Agenda April 27, 2020 - Item 8.A. - Slow Streets Program Date: Monday, April 27, 2020 6:59:08 PM Honorable Mayor Howard and Members of the City Council: I agree with and recommend your support for the Slow Streets Program. Experience with designated streets now may later evolve into choosing certain streets and routes as designated Mobility Streets and Mobility Routes. First, I would like to direct your attention to "Vera Street from El Camino to Alameda de Las Pulgas." This street runs through Red Morton Park. At the East Entrance the street has a level run onto the Red Morton Park Sidewalk. However, at the West Entrance there is curb where Valota Street intersects with the Red Morton Park Sidewalk. I propose that you use this Slow Streets Program as an opportunity to create a Handicap Ramp to enter and exit the park sidewalk from Valota Street so that users can continue from the Red Morton Park Sidewalk onto Vera Street from Valota Street to Alameda de las Pulgas. I have attached photos of the two park entrances. Second, the Staff Report suggests usage as "jogging, walking and biking." I suggest the usage be expanded to "jogging, walking and mobility vehicles." There is a plethora of mobility devices, from razor skates to four-wheel skate boards, to 3 -wheel scooters (both standing and sitting,) to adult tricycles (sometimes two wheels in back and sometimes two wheels in front,) to two wheel skateboards (sometimes with in-line wheels and sometimes with parallel wheels,) and one -wheel devices where the rider has a foot on each side of a large wheel. This is a fertile field for imagination, with new inventions for devices and for electrification appearing almost daily. This is why I suggest to use the words Mobility Vehicles, to recognize that we are progressing far beyond bicycles and electrified bicycles as a means to reduce the use of cars. And, as we design future streets, like the Grand Boulevard, El Camino, we need to provide for a variety of vehicles far beyond bicycles. There should be designated "Mobility Lanes," not 'Bicycle Lanes," in all future street developments. I have attached a photo of a new "skateboard," I just came across, with two wheels parallel and a knee -level control rod. Thank you, Foster Kinney 426 Quartz Street Redwood City, CA 94062 (650) 299-9479 fostertkinne c gmail.com