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6/13/2022 - Meeting Minutes SALT LAKE CITY BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE Minutes of the June 13, 2022 Meeting BAC Members Present for this meeting was Martin Cuma. BAC Members Electronically Present for this meeting were Ashley Lodmell, Daniel Houpt,Joshua Poppel, Patrick Casey, and Sarah Johnson. BAC Members Absent for this meeting were Gabriela Knudson, and Rachel Manko. Also present were Julianne Sabula, Jena Carver, and Dan Bergenthal Also present electronically were Stephanie Tomlin, Matthew Morriss, Jenn Diederich, Becka Roolf, and Will Becker. The meeting was held both electronically via WebEx and in person and was called to order at 5:03 p.m. by Martin Cuma. Martin welcomed everyone and the Committee members introduced themselves. Approval of Minutes Motion: Martin Cuma moved to approve the minutes of the May 16, 2022 meeting. Danny Houpt seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. Public Comment—There were no public comments. Committee Announcements &Updates Martin said he had a pleasant bike ride through Utah County on a state road that goes from Spanish Fork to Payson and another from Springville to Provo on the way back. He said both have comfortable bike lanes and since they were main roads, he was able to keep going. As a commuter cyclist, it was nice for him to just keep pedaling on a bike lane for miles. He's wondering why that isn't the case in Salt Lake County and thinks they should really be working with UDOT to add bike lanes on roads like 300 West, State Street, and 3300 South. Commuter cyclists have the same goals as commuter motorists which is getting to work and home as quickly as possible. He would also like to work with UDOT or SLC to get the light prioritization on Guardsman Way and 500 South looked at. He would like to propose they get rid of the rush hour timing and go to the non-rush hour timing all the time. Sarah would like to add to his point by saying she has experienced the same issues while riding primarily in Southwest Liberty Wells. She also faces the lights not being triggered by her bike and is wondering what the most effective way is to pass along her feedback and who the best person to pass those comments along to would be. Julianne said she can give her suggestions to Transportation and the TCC folks can communicate with UDOT and that having a list would be helpful. Sarah also said there are significant potholes that have been in streets for months. Julianne said there is an app to report those to the Streets Division and Martin said he's had good response when reporting potholes on the app. Dan said there Page 1 of 4 TAB/BAC 06-13-2022 Minutes is also a UDOT website to report potholes on State routes. Danny biked to the Living Traditions Festival with some other cyclists, and they were surprised and disappointed that there was no infrastructure for storing bikes there. In the past, at the Arts Festival and other events, there were bike corrals to safely secure bicycles. He would like the BAC and the City to advocate for this since it is a city sponsored event and a lot of people ride to it which is something they want to encourage. Dan said the Bike Collective used to do the bike corrals and Martin said maybe they can contact them with a list of activities and see if they'll do it again in the future. Martin said that with Bike Month, he would encourage everyone to think about what the goals should be and he's hoping they're moving in the right direction with respect to getting the city to work with them and improve things overall. Transportation Investment Fund (TIF)/Transit TIF Awards Stephanie Tomlin, UDOT Becka Roolf&Julianne Sabula, SLC Transportation Julianne said the intent of this agenda item is to fill the Committee in on several projects funded through a new State funding source. Stephanie from UDOT introduced herself and shared an overview about the funding types, project requirements and ranking, and some of the already funded projects. She said she's an avid bike commuter and cyclist herself, so she's really excited about this impactful funding. Sarah asked for a clarification for what non-motorized paved trails means specifically regarding e-bikes, class 1, and class 2. Stephanie said they are leaving that up to the jurisdictions for now but there should be a discussion about that at the legislative level. Becka showed a synopsis from the City perspective of the projects that have been funded. She said she does have a little bit more than what is shown but they are not active transportation projects so since they aren't in the TIF or TTIF, she didn't show them. She went over types of funding including being able to use some federal funds to provide the municipality match for UDOT funding. She went over the list of projects that are funded including the project budgets, state funds requested, match amounts, match sources, timing of the projects, and the ranking. Transportation has applied for 6 additional projects that have not yet been funded. Although they aren't currently funded, they do stay in the que, and the City is hoping they will be funded at some point. Stephanie says those projects stay in the que until they are funded, or the municipality asks for it to be removed. Martin has a lot of questions that are project specific and is hoping that whoever is going to be managing these projects, can talk to BAC about them. SLC Mayor's Safe Streets Task Force Dan Bergenthal, SLC Transportation Dan said there have been quite a few pedestrian crashes in SLC so far this year. Because of this, the Mayor announced a new multi-departmental task force set up in the city. This will include Transportation, the SLCPD, and they are going to have UDOT involved to look at sharing crash data, citations, traffic patterns, and other data to find the most critical areas in SLC where traffic projects may be needed. The task force is still being assembled at the lead of the Mayor who is working with the Transportation Director. Dan wanted the BAC to know this is happening and is assuming the task force will be looking at bicycle safety as well. He wanted to know if the Committee had any thoughts on this matter. Ashley said she's been commuting by bicycle for about a year and was hit by a vehicle on her way to work two months ago. Martin said she might be a good candidate for the task force since she has personal experience. He also said he would like to voice his happiness that it sounds like it will encompass multiple departments Page 2 of 4 TAB/BAC 06-13-2022 Minutes within the city as it seems like different departments don't always communicate on how to make thing better. He thinks someone from TAB should also be on the task force. Dan told them to be thinking about a representative from their group in case they want a member from BAC. Martin would at least like the Committee kept up to date on how this project has evolved. Julianne said it seems in this early phase, it would be important to have feedback from this Committee, general principles that Jon and Dan could convey for the new task force to consider. Martin told the members to give some thought to that and they would have a future discussion on the topic. Sarah said some of the crossing lights are too short for an able-bodied person let alone someone who can't walk at a normal pace. She's noticed that issue at several lights throughout the city. Martin said that brings him back to another personal experience where the pedestrian signal doesn't get actuated unless someone pushes the button. This means they are sitting there waiting when the light is green, and he feels the city supports walking so pedestrians shouldn't have to rely on the push buttons to be able to cross. Julianne said if there are committee wide census on something, it could be meaningful to have a statement. Upcoming Neighborhood Byway Projects Will Becker, SLC Transportation Will came to let the Committee know about some upcoming projects that haven't officially started yet but are getting close. Transportation is going to begin the design on three neighborhood byways. These neighborhood byway projects include the Kensington Neighborhood Byway and a section of Sugar House to the U of U byway that will connect at Kensington. He explained that a neighborhood byway is intended to make a low stress walking and biking connection through a neighborhood. In the future, they will also look at traffic calming as part of neighborhood byways to help improve challenging intersections. The other neighborhood byway is the Rose Park Neighborhood Byway at Jordan Meadows and West Point. He explained where each project stands as far as design and construction. There is one final project which is a Neighborhood Byways Design Guide to create materials for public outreach and education but will primarily be an internal document that will provide some standardization and a really good design guide as they create additional future byways. Each intersection will be assessed individually so the busier intersections will hopefully have an appropriate level of improvement dependent on funding. They would also like to create some neighborhood specific branding and wayfinding signage on these byways to set them apart from regular bike routes. Will and Becka answered some additional questions regarding the byway alignments and specific crossings. He will come back to the Committee for feedback and input. South Temple Restriping&30o North Jena Carver, SLC Transportation Jena talked to the Committee about two projects. The first is a road reconstruction project on 30o North between 300 West and i000 West by the Fair Park. It is scheduled to be completed next construction season and they will be replacing pavement and repairing damaged curb &gutter. Transportation has the opportunity to look at striping and after meeting with community members, they have narrowed it down to two options. She showed both options, one of which includes protected bike lanes on both sides of the street and the other is to have a two-way bike lane on the south side of the street which is the one the community seems to prefer. There is currently an open survey on the SLC My Street website which can be found here: Page 3 of 4 TABBAC 06-13-2022 Minutes https://www.slc.gov/mystreet/. There were also postcards sent out to the entire neighborhood as well as street signs to try to get more neighbor feedback. Jena received some feedback from the Committee and answered some questions about how this fits in with the Typologies Guide. She said the next project is only a restriping project and is on South Temple from 7Oo East to University Street. It is currently 4 lanes, 2 in each direction and they are looking at making it 3 lanes with one in each direction and a turn lane. There is currently parking on both sides,but a parking study showed some of it isn't used so rather than getting rid of parking on one side, they have currently designed it to switch back and forth so there is still parking on both sides and there will be buffered bike lanes on both sides. Martin said the next step would be going from 700 East to State Street. Jena said the traffic in that section is much higher, but this is a start, and she showed each section of the current project plan and went over the planned timeline. Motion: Martin Cuma motioned to adjourn the meeting; Patrick Casey seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 6:33 p.m. Approved by the Bicycle Advisory Committee o8-15-22. Page 4 of 4 TAB/BAC 06-13-2022 Minutes