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08/19/2024 - Meeting Minutes SALT LAKE CITY BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE Minutes of the August 19, 2024 Meeting BAC Members Present for this meeting were Martin Cuma, Matthew Morriss, and Sarah Johnson. BAC Members Electronically Present for this meeting were Alla Chernenko Ashley Lodmell, Ben Trueman, and Laura Lewis. BAC Member Absent for this meeting was Greta Sommerfeld. Also Present were Lt. Steve Wooldridge, Becka Roolf, Mary Sizemore, Dave Iltis, Julianne Sabula, and Jon Larsen. Also Electronically Present were Amy Lyons, Hugh Van Wagenen, DeDe Murray, and Geoff Dupaix. The meeting was held both electronically via WebEx and in person and was called to order at 5:04 p.m. by Martin Cuma. Martin welcomed everyone and everyone introduced themselves. Approval of Minutes Motion: Martin Cuma moved to approve the minutes of the May 20, 2024 BAC meeting and the June 10, 2024 Joint Meeting. Matthew Morriss seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. Public Comment— Dave wanted to remind the group that 400 South has just been repaved and said SLC still just apparently won't talk to UDOT and get them to do something better. It's recently paved with no bike facilities and the pedestrian experience is incredibly awful and unsafe. He said the unfinished bike lanes issue continues to be a problem where the streets are repaved and then a year or two years later, sometimes the bike lanes remain incomplete. He wishes the BAC would consider inviting someone from Streets to the meetings because they are a City-wide Committee, not just a Transportation Committee and the City has heard them on anything to do with bicycling in the city. He wished they would invite someone from the Streets Department and find out what they can do to put some pressure so that bikes aren't treated like end class citizens,which they are, because the bike lanes continue to be unfished like on 3rd Avenue, iith Avenue, loth East, etc. UDOT is redoing the interchange between 3200 West and SR-201, and he made some inquires to try and see if they would do something additional when they put this back together. Currently it is closed to bikes. You cannot cross SR-201 with bikes because they did some sort of ground level temporary solution, and it would be great to have a bike facility there. If Salt Lake City would finish their section on Gladiola,which he has asked about but still doesn't have an answer on, and they were able to get bikes some sort of semi-safe passage through there, cyclists would then have the ability to have a 15 mile-ish Page 1 of 4 BAC 08-19-2024 Minutes continuous bike route all the way down to about 14000 south. He said on Virginia Street, he still has questions regarding the speed bumps there. SLC has a somewhat better design than the standard, but he's gone and ridden East Capital Blvd and 1300 South at the request of SLC Transportation, but still doesn't really have a good answer on some of the questions as to why they can't have a slightly wider gap on the downhill section, not changing where the gap is. Fire trucks need to go through but there are going to be people that go through that gap and the angles of the gap in other places caused bikes to crash. This is mostly a problem between 4th Avenue and ilth Avenue, but this is an issue with a potential danger to cyclists. He said bike theft continues to be an incredibly huge problem within SLC. He also said Roger Borgenicht's son was hit and severely injured coming down Sunnyside where a truck turned left right into him. The police officer did not do a good job on the police report, essentially didn't do his job at all. The Sunnyside intersection at Foothill is a tough intersection, it's been made safer, but it still needs to be made safer than it is now, and the PD absolutely needs to do their job with bike accidents because they are not. Martin said he has a bit of a complaint about Sunnyside and the university apartments that they're building there. They keep closing the road and what's worse, they keep closing the bypass on the north side of the road which he thinks should not have been allowed for them to close or they should have been forced to make some alternatives because as far as he understands the bike lanes haven't been there for a month. This is a standard route for him taking his kids to Research Park and he doesn't really know how he's going to get his kids back from appointments over the next month if they keep closing it. He asked which department allows this and Jon said if it is a SLC road the closures have to go through Transportation. Martin said they should work harder to provide alternatives rather than just telling people it's closed for two months. Julianne will ask Lynn about the traffic control permit. Martin would also like to discuss painting the bike lanes on recently paved roads at a future meeting. Elections — Chair/Vice Chair — elect through December 2025 Becka explained the elections process and introduced Mary Sizemore as the election facilitator. Chair —A description of the Chair position was read, and nominations were done. After nominations and based on the qualifications the committee members had agreed upon, Mary proposed Sarah as the new Chair. Everyone consented to Sarah as the Chair. Sarah consented to be the new BAC Chair. Vice Chair —A description of the Vice-Chair position was read, and nominations were done. After nominations and based on the qualifications the committee members had agreed upon, Mary proposed Matthew as the new Vice-Chair. Everyone consented to Matthew as the Vice-Chair. Matthew consented to be the new BAC Vice-Chair. Meeting Schedule for Fall Becka said TAB voted to join the BAC for a joint meeting in September since their regular meeting date is on Labor Day. Another reason to have a joint meeting is for them to discuss the joint meetings proposal together. Additionally, Transportation is planning to have the draft list of FY26 CIP projects which is information that would normally be presented to both groups. The meeting schedule for the rest of the Fall depends on how the joint meetings discussion goes. There will be monthly agenda- Page 2 of 4 BAC 08-19-2024 Minutes development meetings with Transportation staff as well as the Chair and Vice-Chair of both TAB and BAC. BAC Impact Assessment Sarah said she originally suggested this topic as a way to make sure the Committee makes an impact. She has some ideas going forward about how to incorporate that into the agenda but due to time constraints, this will be discussed more at a future meeting. Recent Bikeways and Design Guidelines Becka said SLC has been hearing some commentary from the BAC on some of the recent bikeway designs. She suggested it might be helpful for the Committee to figure out a positive and proactive approach to doing some assessment. She suggested that a first step is to make a list, then have less than a quorum do a site visit and hold any significant discussion until they were in a formal meeting. They could take that list and the site visits to summarize some design guideline feedback for the City to use going forward. Further observation of how other people were using the facility, both drivers and cyclists, can also be done. They can brainstorm between the Committee and the appropriate City staff. The Committee developed the following list of bikeway designs they'd like to review. Becka is hoping to be able to do this within the next few months. Project Location Theme boo North Over I-15 "Teleportation"lanes—give up at intersection Soo East South SL Bike lanes where not necessary Navajo&Harris Intersection California&goo West Intersection 200 South Downtown New designs 300 West South of goo South New designs 300 W,goo S.Folsom Trail Multiple Trails Parley's to JRT bridge Multiple Trails Future Direction of Bike Planning 5+5 Bikeway gaps 80o West Poplar Grove Bikeway gaps;neighborhood byway in progress goo East South of I-8o New designs;Dutch-like designs 1300 South Viaduct Viaduct Dangerous facility 60o North 20OW to 30OW Drop lane Proposed discussions for future meetings: • Future of SLC's bikeway network&connectivity(5+5) • Dutch/Danish/European designs and how they can or can't be integrated into SLC's designs • Driveway treatments It was also proposed that they can discuss lower-priority locations virtually(discuss photos/videos, people can visit as homework). Public participation is under discussion. Member Report-out Page 3 of 4 BAC 08-19-2024 Minutes Due to time constraints, this topic will be postponed until a future meeting. Motion: Martin Cuma motioned to adjourn the meeting; Sarah Johnson seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 6:34 p.m. Meeting Chat Alla C 8/19/2024 5:05 PM • Sorry, technical difficulties, District 5 Laura Lewis 8/19/2O24 5:26 PM • Just sent Ben Trueman 8/19/2O24 6:07 PM • projects: Navajo &Harris Ave intersection California & goo W intersection 200 S redesign 300 W bikeway Alla C 8/19/2O24 6:07 PM • I would love 300 W, goo S, Folsom Trail 8/19/2024 6:08 PM • And Parley's to JRT bridge Ben Trueman 8/19/2024 6:08 PM • I would be happy to get pictures of Navajo &Harris Ave and the CA&goo W intersection if we want to discuss those without visiting Approved by the Bicycle Advisory Committee 10-21-24. Page 4 of 4 BAC 08-19-2024 Minutes