PRESENTER: Presenter
Garry Ford, Transportation and Capital Improvements Director
Carly Farmer, Assistant City Engineer
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SUBJECT: Title
Presentation and update on the Comal Avenue and East Faust Street bikeway facility design.
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation and Capital Improvements
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COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: 5
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Transportation and Capital Improvements Department will provide an update on the parking study and evaluation for the potential bikeway facility changes on Comal Avenue and East Faust Street, including the next steps in the process.
ISSUE:
Improve safety, quality of the transportation system, and ease of travel by bicycle in New Braunfels.
STRATEGIC PLAN REFERENCE:
☐Economic Mobility ☒Enhanced Connectivity ☐Community Identity
☐Organizational Excellence ☒Community Well-Being ☐N/A
Enhanced Connectivity:
Objectives:
1. Identify and establish planning, capital, and operating funding to support and maintain a well-connected transportation network serving pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, children, older individuals, individuals with disabilities, motorists, and freight vehicles.
Performance Measures:
Milestone:
• Assess vehicle, pedestrian and bicycle network connectivity and develop baseline connectivity rating.
Outcome:
• Increase National Citizen Survey overall satisfaction in the “overall quality of the transportation system.”
• Increase National Citizen Survey overall satisfaction with “ease of travel by bicycle.”
• Increase National Citizen Survey overall satisfaction with “ease of travel by walking.”
• Add measures for connectivity rating, congestion, and transit in years 3 - 5 of the plan once the milestone measures are complete.
• Increase in walk and bike score.
• Increased bikeway, trails, and sidewalk miles.
Community Well-Being:
Objectives:
4. Develop capital and staffing investments that improve safety, reduce heat islands, and encourage transportation modes that support healthier lifestyles and exercise such as biking, walking and running.
Performance Measures:
Milestones:
• Implement top three priorities from the New Braunfels Street Safety Action Plan.
FISCAL IMPACT:
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RECOMMENDATION:
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