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From: aerd.stieler(cbamx.net To: GRP -City Council Subject: Transit Orient Development and Transportation Equity Date: Sunday, February 7, 2021 10:11:35 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Council Members, Let's start with a little background information, especially for our new city council members: Transportation = movement of people and goods Active Transportation = distributes benefits and burdens most equitably Complete Streets = transportation policy that requires streets to be planned, designed, operated, and maintained to enable safe, convenient and comfortable travel and access for users of all ages and abilities regardless of their mode of transportation. Cost of Driving = $9,000-10,000 per year and $0.60 per mile Vision Zero = a dangerous enforcement policy to be avoided. Should be replaced with a real push for Safe-Bikeways-to-School/Transit and real Complete Streets policies. Transportation Equity is: • not about disabled people who need to drive, but the ones that can't drive • not about disabled people who don't want to walk/bike, but the ones that still want to • not about elderly people who don't want to walk/bike, but the ones that still want to • not about low-income families with cars. It's about low-income families without cars. • not about house owners, but about cost -burdened renters • not about affluent households that don't want a car, but households who can't afford one • not (as much) about affluent communities unless they have kids, disabled and elderly • not about people riding bicycles today, it's about the 60% "Interested but Concerned" not riding yet • not about recreational cycling (technically that doesn't count as 'Transportation') • not about residential street parking (also not part of transportation, plus it's also only about cars) ... and about People of Color with the added burden of biased enforcement in mind ( often a typical and dangerous side-effect of Vision Zero'). in summary: Low-income, zero -vehicle households, single parent households, cost -burdened renters, seniors age 75+, persons with disabilities, people relying on walking/bicycling/transit, children on their ways to schools and parks. And currently over 20 schools, parks, etc. in your'sphere of influence' have no real bike lanes (class 2). Current bicycle share at RCSD: 0% Safe -Routes -To -School program is non-existent. Currently on a "Transportation Equity" scale of 1-10, Redwood City hasn't even reached the one yet. So while the Sequoia Transit Stations touts all the positive things coming with a Transit Oriented Development, Redwood City hasn't even started to do its homework to get it done: • Dumbarton Railroad Corridor - 30 year project and at $3 Billion pretty dead now • EI Camino Bike Lanes - 44 years in the making and City Manager just admitted she can't even get a pedestrian light onto a ped crossing without Caltrans' approval, which means there won't be bike lanes on EI Camino. • There will not be any grade separation within the next 20-25 years because there is no magical funding of $2 billion available anywhere. • Even with magical funding there will be no grade separation for the next 15 years. • What could be done right now however are bike lanes! Almost every single street in Redwood City has currently space for 4 car lanes ( 2 for driving, 2 for private car storage).