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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMin - TSP - 2024.11.141 TRAFFIC, SAFETY AND PARKING COMMISSION Approved Minutes Regular Meeting on Thursday, November 14, 2024 The meeting minutes are intended to provide a high-level summary and action items. The official record is the meeting recording, which can be found on the City’s website or the City’s YouTube Channel: https://www.burlingame.org/departments/public_works/agenda_and_minutes.php https://www.youtube.com/@cityofburlingame3486 1. CALL TO ORDER 7:00 p.m. 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG 3. ROLL CALL MEMBERS PRESENT: Cauchi, Martos MEMBERS ABSENT: Rebelos, Israelit, Ng 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) September 26, 2024 Special Meeting Minutes The approval of the special meeting minutes was postponed due to lack of quorum. b) October 10, 2024 Regular Meeting Minutes (to be approved at next TSPC meeting) The regular meeting minutes from October will be available for approval at the December meeting. 5. PUBLIC COMMENTS – NON-AGENDA The following non-agenda public comment emails were read for the record. Samantha French Respectfully, we inquire if you have granted our request to be added to the agenda for this month’s meeting. As a reminder, we have requested that you consider adding a stop sign, speed bumps and/or crosswalks at the intersection of Vancouver and Adeline. There is a terrible blind spot on this corner. 2 Our children cross this street at least once a day and it is not safe as many cars coming down the hill or from Mercy are speeding down Adeline. For our family in particular, my daughters all have varying degrees of hearing loss and wear devices where it may be difficult to hear a speeding car coming around the blind corner. Yet another accident occurred at this intersection this past weekend. The car ran off the road, across the sidewalk and into a yard at the corner where my children and others in the neighborhood walk and stand to wait for their friends. Before someone gets seriously hurt, it is important that we place some mechanisms to slow the traffic down as suggested above. We often see cars and delivery trucks driving by above the speed limit. Stefani Willis I would like to express my support for the request from Samantha French to add this topic to the next meeting agenda (Vancouver/Adeline). I live on Vancouver and saw the accident happen this past weekend. It was terrifying to witness, and I was thankful there were no pedestrians nearby as it is a high foot traffic corner for adults and children. I've seen far too many cars speeding down Adeline, and given the number of school children who walk to Lincoln, BIS, and Hoover, it's incredibly risky for the city to not consider a stop sign, speed bump and/or crosswalk at Vancouver and Adeline. Thank you for your consideration. Dennis John If you're going to install bike lanes all over the city there should be a requirement to guarantee the same number of parking spots. For those of us that are not as lucky to have washer/dryers in our buildings, we have to go to laundromats. And with these bike lanes now there is NEVER any parking available at either laundromat on California avenue. So you have made laundry services less equitable for those of us that don't have affordable access to any. Craig King Every day, and especially during morning and evening commute hours, some drivers speed recklessly on Floribunda Avenue, driving up to 45mph through the 25mph zone. There is only one, very poorly marked crosswalk on Floribunda between El Camino Real and California Drive. Floribunda is a curving street with limited sight lines and with multiple intersections where cross traffic is merely supposed to yield. In my 10 years of residency and daily walks, I have never once witnessed Burlingame PD enforcing the speed limit on the Floribunda thoroughfare. We need the speed limit actively enforced against reckless drivers who are traversing daily through our neighborhood. Doug Bojack I want to bring up a grassroots traffic calming project Barroilhet Avenue, the street the is the southern border of Burlingame and San Mateo. I have lived on the street for more than 30 years, and it has 3 consistently been a high-speed street with cars using the wide straightaway to accelerate into Hillsborough. This has caused numerous car totallings and made the road unsafe for the families in the area. I recently flyered both sides of Barroilhet to request community input into whether and what traffic calming methods people would like to see on the road. There was unanimous agreement in the responses that something must be done. The clear preference was installing speed cushions and additional stop signs. I am informing you now in advance of sending the survey results to Mayor Colson who represents this district and to Mayor Nash of San Mateo, also representing the adjacent side of the street. I hope the cities will find the few dollars they need in next year's budgets to install the necessary signs and speed cushions to ensure the safety of this shared street. 6. DISCUSSION/ACTION ITEMS a) Murchison Drive, Trousdale Drive, and Davis Drive Bicycle Improvement Project Update Mr. Wong provided a presentation regarding the Murchison Drive, Trousdale Drive, and Davis Drive Bicycle Improvement Project, which included the meeting goals, status, project limits, existing conditions, various design alternatives, public outreach, and next steps. Additional presentation details are below. Meeting Goals • Obtain feedback regarding the recommended concepts and the upcoming outreach efforts from the June 2024 TSPC meeting and previous outreach efforts. • Schedule future TSPC meeting to obtain community feedback on the recommended concepts. Status • Currently in the design phase, but as this project is grant funded, the City needs to move to final design. Project Limits • Murchinson Drive – between Sequoia Avenue and California Drive • Trousdale Drive – between Castenada/Martinez Drive and California Drive • Davis Drive – between Quesada Way and Albemarle Way Existing Conditions • Murchinson Drive – very wide two-lane roadway with on street parking on both sides. • Trousdale Drive – two travel lanes in each direction with parking on both sides. • Davis Drive – residential street with parking on both sides. Design Alternatives • Murchinson Drive o Alternative 1 – parking protected buffered bike lanes. Pros include no change to 4 vehicle capacity and protection for bicyclists. Cons include potential loss of parking at driveways, parked vehicles may encroach into the buffer, and less direct driveway access. o Alternative 2 (staff recommended concept) - buffered bike lanes. Pros include no change to vehicle capacity and protection for bicyclist. Cons include vehicles needing to cross the bike lane to enter/exit parking, smaller buffer between bike lane/travel lane, and less direct driveway access. • Trousdale Drive o Alternative 1 – two travel lanes, one turn lane, and buffered bike lanes. Pros include protection for bicyclists. Cons include reduced vehicle capacity, increased delay at Quesada Way in A.M. peak from LOS C to F (school traffic). o Alternative 2 – four travel lanes, one turn lane, buffered bike lanes, and no parking. Pros include reduction in delays with turn lane and protection for bicyclists. Cons include no on-street parking. o Alternative 3 – four travel lanes, bike lanes, and parking on both sides. Pros include no change to vehicle capacity and new bike lanes. Cons include increased traffic stress for bicyclists with reduced travel lanes, bike lanes and parking lanes at minimum widths. Staff recommendation is to remove the Trousdale segment from the project due to lack of community support for any of the alternatives. • Davis Drive o Alternative 1 (staff recommended concept) –greenback sharrows, stripe in edgelines, and high visibility crosswalk at Marco Polo Way with quickbuild bulbout. Speed cushions and or shifting to a raised crosswalk at Marco Polo Way could be phased in at a later time depending on community support. Public Outreach • Send out meeting notices to the businesses and residents along Murchison, Trousdale, and Davis. • Provide notices to Mills-Peninsula and the City of Millbrae. • Provide notices to BIS and Franklin Elementary for student body distribution. • Include notifications in eNews and post information along project streets. Next Steps • Obtain TSPC feedback regarding the staff recommended concepts and outreach efforts. • Schedule future TSPC meeting to obtain community feedback on the staff recommended concepts and determine their level of support. • Shift into the final design phase. 5 Commissioner Cauchi stated that by removing the bike lane on Trousdale, we are eliminating the low stress bike facility for the school on Trousdale. She requested a way to connect from Trousdale to Murchison. Mr. Wong said staff would be looking into a bike boulevard potentially on Ogden and or Magnolia. Commissioner Cauchi requested the stress level map and inquired about Sequoia Avenue. Mr. Wong said most of the students that go to BIS or Franklin are coming from the south. Based on that information, Commissioner Cauchi inquired about a connection around Davis Drive to California Drive. Essentially, she explained that with the removal of Trousdale Drive, she would like to see enhancements around Murchison and Davis Drives for low stress alternatives. Commissioner Cauchi supported the buffered bike lanes on Murchison Drive. She also stated she is not a fan of sharrows. Mr. Wong stated he would get back to the Commissioner regarding the total grant funds and whether the grant funds slated for Trousdale could be used for additional enhancements on Murchison and Davis Drives. Vice-Chair Martos agreed that we should not do anything on Trousdale, especially with the hospital there and no good solution. He also stated he liked Alternative 2 on Murchison Drive. Vice Chair Martos inquired about the project timeline. Mr. Wong confirmed that the project could potentially begin in fall 2025. Vice-Chair Martos asked about any bicycle infrastructure on Albemarle Way or Rosedale Avenue and agreed with Commissioner Cauchi to provide additional protection on alternative streets with Trousdale being removed from the project. There was no formal action taken, but in closing, Vice-Chair Martos and Commissioner Cauchi requested to have the consultant come up with alternative routes to get students safely to California Drive near parks and downtown. The following email was received for public comment and read for the record. Manito Velasco I only caught the last part of the presentation. Unfortunately, there was no graphics until now. I’m opposed to the proposed edgelines on Davis. As a regular user on Davis, I can tell you riding up that hill that drivers are in a hurry and most will think that line is a bike lane. And where bicyclists belong. So they will honk and intimidate the bike riders, including BIS middle schoolers, to ‘move over’ and ‘get out of the way’. This is not a good option and will have negative effects on driver and bike interaction. Think about it – when you’re driving you see a line and you’re not a TSPC commissioner or an engineer, that line you will think is a bike lane. Pls reconsider. 6 I’m not clear on why Trousdale is being dropped from the project. Has this been communicated to the bicycle and pedestrian community or to the grant agency? There is a way to accomplish bike lanes here without significant traffic impacts. Is the City or Commissioners willing to meet on site to discuss? Thank you for hearing this matter and continuing the discussion. 7. INFORMATION ITEMS a) Public Comments Related to Informational Items No comments. b) Community Group Updates No update. c) Engineering Division Reports Mr. Wong provided the below update on various Public Works – Engineering projects and activities. • BIS Circulation and Pedestrian Improvements Update – Staff has recent met with Burlingame School District staff on some upcoming changes at BIS. BIS will be working on remodeling of facilities at BIS will necessitate the relocation and expansion of their current bicycle storage. The new bike facility will be relocated to the southern edge of the BIS campus and will be included in the design. This change will reduce the number of students on bicycles crossing Clarice and driveways along Quesada. There are considerations by BSD to advance this portion of the work in their project. Another change at BIS is the addition of a 3rd SamTrans bus to the site. With this additional bus, both BSD and SamTrans have requested a longer drop-off zone for the buses to pull-in, drop-off, and depart from. City staff is coordinating on the bus zone relocation while maintaining the on-street student drop-off zone along Quesada. • Peninsula Avenue/Dwight Road Update – Staff has been coordinating with San Mateo staff on changes to the intersection. Recent changes include enhancing the crosswalks to high-visibility crosswalks, and the introduction of lead pedestrian intervals (LPI) to the pedestrian signals. Additional efforts include reviewing potential signal timing alternatives as well as alterations in the lane reconfigurations. • City Threads Update – Staff will be applying to be part of a “Accelerated Mobility Playbook” (AMP) grant. This is a technical assistance grant program by the national nonprofit organization City Thread that assists cities in accelerating the implementation 7 of a mobility network. City Thread selects cities from a competitive application process and provides an assessment of each city's current state of practice, and an action plan for improved partnerships, among other deliverables. Once the application has been submitted, the City would be notified by December 3, 2024. This process has been initiated by Commissioner Cauchi, and staff recommends that a “City Thread” committee be formed to monitor the progress. Please refer to the link below for additional details: https://www.citythread.org/faqs d) Police Department Reports Sergeant Roberts reported 15 collisions for the month of October, with 8 collisions involving another motor vehicle, 1 collision with a parked motor vehicle, 2 with a fixed or other object, and 4 involving bicyclists. He said the primary collision factors included right-of-way violations, unsafe speed, followed by unsafe turn movements. Please see the collision report for details. Commissioner Cauchi requested that the parking in front of Il Fornaio be reviewed since it is a difficult intersection to see oncoming traffic at Donnelley coming from the traffic circle. She also shared that the streetlight at East Lane and Burlingame Avenue is out. e) TSPC Chair/Commissioner’s Communications Vice-Chair Martos indicated they received several emails from BHS students to which Mr. Wong is handling. Vice-Chair Martos stated he attended the November 4 City Council meeting where they discussed the parking on California Drive. 8. COMMITTEE REPORTS a) Public Comments Related to Committee Reports No comments. b) BIS School Safety Study (Israelit & Ng) No update. c) Hillside Drive Safety and Traffic Calming (Israelit & Ng) No update. 8 d) Key Performance Indicators (Cauchi & Rebelos) Commissioner Cauchi indicated that she met with the City Manager and the next step is to meet with Mr. Wong with the intent to begin tracking KPIs at the first of the year. e) Vision Zero (Martos & Rebelos) No Update. 9. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS • Murchison, Trousdale, Davis Bicycle Project • Occidental Traffic Calming Project • South Rollins Improvements • ECR Renewal Update 10. ADJOURNMENT 8:13 p.m.