HomeMy WebLinkAboutTLU_Minutes_Meeting_2_1_8_08.pdfMinutes Meeting#2 Transportation and Land Use January 8, 2008
Meeting Start: 6:00pm WTI offices
Attendance: Martin Knight, David Boggeman, Pat McGowen, Greg Pederson (conference), Jason Delume
(Bicycle Advisory Board), Lisa Ballard (Streamline)
Notes taken by: Hattie Baker
Jason D: All new growth should include bike and ped to help promote biking and pedestrian. Bike rodeo,
watching impact fee discussion b/c saying should not pay for upgrades.
Gallatin Valley Bike Club: List of 400 people that helps with numbers and support for a program. Jon
Henderson aware and involved w/the 7th street corridor so that it will encourage biking.
Exploring Peach street b/w 7th and Rouse. Issues: Snowplowing.
Pat McGowen: Task Force goals. Mayor committed to reduce carbon foot print. Discussed other
committees and report will carry weight with what the city will do. Connectivity is one of the sub‐
committees goals. If you bike you will reduce the carbon footprint.
Are there specific deficiencies other than connectivity?
Jason D: BAB has specific list.
• Storm grates recessed
• No curb cuts
How could you persuade commissions? Force connectivity with how private sector hasn’t come through.
Martin: Have you looked at bike lanes Babcock and Mendenhall?
Jason: Not sure, but bike lanes would be great everywhere.
Martin: Issues with state highways.
David B: Maybe now is the time to push something through. Give recommendations for design
standards. Most effective by suggesting specific things, and our document will be most effective if we
say bike lanes angled parking will be better for business.
Jason D: Numbers would be helpful.
David B: UPS implemented a policy for all right turns and reduced gasoline usage. Increase car efficiency
by ten percent by moving the car faster.
Pat M: I’m not sure if I buy into that. Looked at data for average commute time for 1910‐ 1930 and did
not change that much. You’d have to convince me that good traffic flow would reduce the overall
impact.
David B: Downtown is not commute time.
Pat M: If you commute shop or whatever, if you improve the traffic flow people will travel more.
Increase traffic flow, decrease delay.
Martin K: Does BAB have numbers? Bike survey for DOT and Alta. Percentage of people who rode their
bike to work.
Good portion of people will ride bike to work. But scared of roads b/c mileage is too fast.
Lisa: People who are riding the bike April–October are taking the bus October– April. Mall to MSU is the
ideal bus length. Ideal ped length is shorter than that.
Lisa: Money that was going to Galavan and Streamline w/federal money. 40% local and 60% federal.
Federal Transit Administration. Big issue is warranty on the busses.
City fleet is on bio‐diesel and the transit is on bio‐diesel. How much of an extra is it to fuel up at
Belgrade. Extra 15 miles to go to Belgrade to fill up.
Lisa B: Encouraging a bio‐diesel facility in Bozeman would be a good recommendation.
Using the city tanks could be an opportunity.
What if we make requirement to carry bio‐diesel for new gas stations?
Martin K: A plan for bus stops through the city.
Lisa B: A map for all of our bus stops.
Martin K: Requiring new developments to carry bus stops.
Lisa B: Is it on new routes? Where they are going to be?
Martin B: For example two bus stops on West Oak.
Lisa B: We need money. Given size of city now we need one more route. We have list of priority areas.
Service to NW and NE.
Pat M: Streamline would like to see a transportation levy UTD. The boundaries are what you want it to
be. The district would be easier within the city.
Bozeman contributes $58,500. There was a senior mill levy which can be used for senior service and a
city senior transportation. Belgrade gave $8,000, and Gallatin County $45,000.
David B: If we have an average # of 10‐15 people on bus where do we break even on the carbon.
Pat M: According to error prone data, first year saved 80,000 pounds of carbon.
Building busses into new land use, supporting additional funding for transit.
Are there any funding sources for the BAB? Yes a little.
Would a full time bike‐ped coordinator help? Yes, definitely.
Is there a better way to streamline projects to the various boards?
What is the distance that a person will walk to a bus stop? ½ mile walking, 1 mile biking, and 2 miles
driving.
Ideal bus stop would be between ½ mile and 1 mile. In distance.
More integration w/all the transportation modes. Also planning office and BAB.
Removing island on Kagy would help for bike lane and streamline.
Pat M: Looking long‐term and outside the box. Is there something we could do for light rail and
commuter lanes?
Lisa B: I think you have to be the size of Salt Lake for light rail. Bus rapid transit takes the nice things of
light rail.
What about carpool lanes?
Marketing helps to increase awareness for ridership.
MDT said they would not pay for the aesthetic so streamline found money for funding the new busses.
Greg: Glacier has very impressive service right now. Good Job! It took 800,000 vehicle miles off of the
road. The only complaints I heard is that on the pickups and drops people had to wait b/c so full.
Lisa B: Meeting demand given limited budget. In 2007 24% increase from 2005 in visitation at Glacier
park and 6% drop in vehicle traffic.
Greg: Tucson has a very impressive bike transportation system. Big problem for cyclists b/c Tucson is
bisected by a highway. Everything too distributed so use a car to do everything.
Meeting adjourned 8:00pm.