HomeMy WebLinkAboutBABAB Special Presentation Commission Memo 2-6-2012
Commission Memorandum
REPORT TO: Honorable Mayor and City Commission
FROM: John Van Delinder, Street Superintendent
Debbie Arkell,
Public Service Director
SUBJECT: Bozeman Area Bicycle Advisory Board (BABAB) List of Recommended Bike Lanes and Bike Boulevards
MEETING DATE: February 6, 2012
AGENDA
ITEM TYPE: Special Presentation
RECOMMENDATION: Listen to presentation from Bozeman Area Bicycle Advisory Board and provide comments to the Board and staff.
BACKGROUND: Article
III A. of the Bylaws of the Bozeman Area Bicycle Advisory Board (BABAB) says the board shall provide advice and recommendations to the City Commission on matters before the City Commission
which may have an impact on bicycling, insofar as it may relate to usage of public streets and other public ways by bicycles. The board has put together a list of recommended bike lanes
to be installed on arterials and collectors. A list has also been created for local streets. These local improvements are also called bike boulevards when only pavement markings are
used. Examples of promoting bike friendliness would be “sharrows”, closing streets to cars but not bikes and stop sign repositioning to promote through traffic for bikes as well as
cars.
Attached is the list that BABAB compiled after considering comments from the board and staff. Their top three projects are:
Stripe bike lanes on South 23rd Avenue, from College
Street to Main Street, which will require the removal of on-street parking;
Stripe bike lanes on North 11th Avenue, from Mendenhall Street to Durston Road, which should not require
the removal of on-street parking; and
Stripe bike lanes on South Willson Avenue from Kagy Boulevard to Main Street, which would keep parking but reduce vehicle lanes to 10-feet. This
will likely need Montana Department of Transportation review and approval because Willson Avenue is an Urban Route and the design would be non-standard. The total price for these three
projects is $84,300, and the Board recommends they be completed as funds become available.
Also attached is Chapter 5 from the Greater Bozeman Area Transportation Plan (2007 Update) outlining recommended bicycle facility improvements. When possible these bicycle improvements
should be done during maintenance activities such as a mill and overlay or chip seal. If it is feasible, these improvements could be done on their own as funding is available.
UNRESOLVED ISSUES: Funding.
ALTERNATIVES: Wait for development or complete reconstruction of streets.
FISCAL
EFFECTS: Currently $25,000 is budgeted in the Street Operations for such improvements. Additional money could be budgeted but this would require an increase in Street Maintenance
Fees, or a reduction in other maintenance activities.
Report compiled on: January 28th, 2012
Attachments:
BABAB Priority List
Bike Counts
Sharrow Example
Bicycle Facility Improvements
from Transportation Plan: Chapter 5