Mobility Committee (MOBC) meeting Transcript – 5/23/2024 Title: ATXN-1 (24hr) Channel: 1 - ATXN-1 Recorded On: 5/23/2024 6:00:00 AM Original Air Date: 5/23/2024 Transcript Generated by SnapStream ================================== Please note that the following transcript is for reference purposes and does not constitute the official record of actions taken during the meeting. For the official record of actions of the meeting, please refer to the Approved Minutes. [1:01:20 PM] everybody, I think we're ready to get started. If we want to take our seats. All right. We have established quorum. Welcome to the mobility committee. It is may 23rd, 2024. It is 1:01 P.M. We are here in city hall chambers, and I wanted to acknowledge we have vice chair qadri with us. We have council member vela with us. And we also have council member harper-madison joining us remotely today. I wanted to acknowledge that may is bike month. So we have an agenda that is specifically geared around bicycle infrastructure, intersection safety, other sorts of programs that the city is working on presently to make sure that our streets, our urban trails and our bike networks are safe for everybody. I also wanted to acknowledge it is public works week before we get started, I want to acknowledge that public works employees are some of the unsung heroes of this city who work hard every day to provide us with much [1:02:22 PM] day to provide us with much needed infrastructure. You may see them out this summer in your neighborhood. We know that these folks work diligently every single day. They're out there when it's 105 degrees, they're out there when it's 20 degrees, 15 degrees out in the high heat, in the cold weather. And we want to acknowledge that their work is very pivotal in making sure that our roads and our urban trail networks are really safe for everybody. And because we want to acknowledge that it is national public works employees week, we thank you for your service. Also so today is the austin- bergstrom international airport's 25th anniversary. So we have a number of folks, including assistant city manager Robert good out at rba today acknowledging the good work that our airport employees, our concession employees do every day for Austin airport. So we want to make sure we acknowledge them today I direct you to the acm report that is posted in backup, that if you have any questions or comments that you want to provide to acm, good, please do that on the back end. Give them a phone call, send an [1:03:24 PM] Give them a phone call, send an email, make sure we address those issues if there's any questions or concerns that you have. But that report is always a really good way of sourcing the work that our employees are doing all the time to make sure that, all the mobility infrastructure work is happening in, in a good way. And on that note, we will go to public communications Ann. I believe we only have one speaker. >> That's right. We have Adam Greenfield with safe streets. Austin. >> Welcome, Adam. I believe you have three minutes, wonderful. Can you pull up the slides, good morning, council members. Adam Greenfield here with safe streets. Austin, I wanted to speak to the environmental investment plan. You all know about. This council is going to be bringing this up soon in relation to council's direction from back in February, asking for a rapid response to our climate challenges. And safe streets Austin has submitted a proposal. The joint sustainability committee has adopted that proposal, and I wanted to share it with you because we are very excited [1:04:26 PM] because we are very excited about it, so, just very quickly, so obviously we're in a climate crisis, whether it's flooding, extreme heat, polar freezes, we need to do things very differently as soon as possible, and we really need to front and center transportation with that. It's our biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, 37% comes from transportation. Ann. And when we're thinking about where is that impact really coming from, a disproportionate amount is coming from our arterials. That's how most people are getting around town. So arterials two lanes or more in each direction, this is, on Lamar. So we really need to look at how we use our arterials right now. And in fact, not only are these responsible for most of our big significant, amount of our carbon emissions, but actually they don't move people well because they prioritize low occupancy vehicles. They are dangerous. They're unpleasant, they are just suboptimal for [1:05:27 PM] they are just suboptimal for this city. So so, safe streets. Austin's proposal for the Erp is really surrounding our arterials. And the proposal is being called city leap. The plan is very simple. Convert one or more vehicle lanes on every city of Austin owned arterial to either bus lanes with shared use paths or protected bike lanes. In. Five years, that's what the network could look like. So basically, we took any high frequency bus route, and gave bus lanes to those, areas. So those are the blue lines. The green lines are, protected bike lanes. So generally it would be two lanes, one in each direction for busses and perhaps one lane or two lanes for protected bike lanes, depending on the context. So all your favorite arterials are there. And here's what it could look like. So typical treatment, this is south first today. That's what south first could look like with bus lanes [1:06:28 PM] could look like with bus lanes and shared use paths on the far side. This is east mlk today, east mlk with protected bike lanes, three three lane road configuration. Wait, I feel like I should dwell on that image so much. A little longer, something like 130 miles of roadways would could see this treatment. These are the miles that we could see of these improvements, and the benefits are rather profound, this is a way to basically start treating our bus network like a subway straight away, shorter travel time. So everyone, including drivers, a project that could pay for itself within months. So when the city of Austin, converted one lane over the longhorn dam bridge, to shared use path, the project paid for itself within four months through comprehensive crash cost savings. So I think that's it. Yeah. Thank you for your time. [1:07:30 PM] your time. >> Okay. Thanks, Adam. Thanks for your work in our community. That moves us to our next item, which is to approve the minutes of the mobility committee meeting from April 23rd, 2024. Do I have a motion from vice chair qadri, seconded by council member vela. All in favor, say aye. All right, that is unanimous. For all in attendance. We are going to move to item number five. This is the only item we're taking out of order today. We have a time constraint with capmetro, and we very much appreciate them taking this moment to be able to talk to us about the metro bike share system relating to community engagement, strategic planning and interlocal agreement with capmetro. >> Hello, I'm Nadia Barrera Ramirez. I manage cross-agency programs for transit and mobility at capmetro, and I have with me Jacob Barrett, transportation demand management program manager for the city. And we're here today to give you an update on metro bike. So this [1:08:30 PM] an update on metro bike. So this is kind of a long agenda, but there's a lot going on. We are there's a lot changing with the metro bike program. And Jacob's going to talk to you about some agreements that we have pending. We have a big system transition coming up. And we're also undergoing a strategic expansion plan. So the name of metro bike is changing. I know you guys just got used to saying metro bike, but we are now. We will be starting July 1st. Cat metro bike share. And this naming convention goes with all of our other naming conventions like cat, metro, rapid cat, metro rail, cat metro bus. And so this is going in conjunction with our new e-bike and station transition that we'll be talking about later. >> Sure. Thank you Nadia. So I'm going to talk about two upcoming items that council will see in the next few months. The first is the txdot advanced funding agreement for our tosa grant. So you all will see that on the may 30th agenda, we're seeking approval to accept, negotiate and execute the tosa grant we were awarded back in November of [1:09:34 PM] were awarded back in November of 2023 for $11.2 million in federal funds to expand the metro bike system, really exciting, so that item and then the second item that you'll see coming in summer 2024 is an interlocal agreement amendment. So, this new amendment will clarify the process for the disposal and resale of our current legacy bicycle system. It outlines additional capital and operational investment for the next ten years, which incorporates the tosa grant. It identifies some responsibilities for storage facilities for bikes and stations. And then it details that rollover for, our city of Austin and Houston, Tillotson pass bank to provide free and reduced price metro bike service for or cap metro bike share service for our city of Austin and Houston. Tillotson [1:10:34 PM] of Austin and Houston. Tillotson and then also establishes regular data sharing between cap metro and the city. >> And for those that don't aren't aware, the partnership that we have today, the city of Austin owns the bikes and the stations. So they own all of the hardware and cap metro operates and maintains the bike share system. So in February of this year, our board approved a contract with pbsc urban solutions to renew, the bike share system. And so starting on July 1st, metro bike will be shutting down. So we will be systematically removing all 76 stations that are out there today. And hope to start replacing them right away. We anticipate by mid-july by we will have the stations down at UT first, and then we'll be expanding out from there, and we'll be putting in about four stations a day with the hope of completing the entire system replacement by mid August. So it'll be about a month until the [1:11:36 PM] it'll be about a month until the whole system is up and running again. For members. Snipes I know we have started, so we've started this communication process, but starting may 31st we will temporarily cease the sale of monthly and annual memberships, and starting June 29th, we will temporarily cease sale of any day passes. So for those of you like me, who who are annual members, you will get promo codes to be able to continue your annual membership and everyone will have to. Starting in July, we'll have to download a new app called the cap metro bike share app and you'll create a new account and that'll help you use the system. So we have been communicating this transition plan to our customers with a series of emails about the closure date and information about the annual and monthly passes. I know I received one a couple of days ago that outlined the dates of when this is happening. We have a new web page. It's capmetro. Org slash bike share. We've started to push things out on social media. Starting earlier this month, we'll have a formal [1:12:37 PM] this month, we'll have a formal press release in June, and then of course, we'll be posting notices on the station themselves in June. We'll also initiate an outdoor advertising and digital media campaign starting in August. And last weekend we had a great turnout at our strategic expansion plan open house and community bike ride, where we had almost 70 people there riding bikes and learning about the strategic expansion plan. But we also took that opportunity to tell our customers about the transition and service and the change in membership, etc. So just once again, here's an outline. So starting may 31st, we'll see sales of monthly and annual memberships. June 29th all day passes will cease. And then early July, July 1st we're going to be picking up stations and storing them. And then starting mid-july, we hope to be, turning on the system again, starting at UT. And then everything should be replaced by mid-august. So the final subject is about our strategic expansion plan, and we have been talking to the public. We have these guides, signs that [1:13:38 PM] We have these guides, signs that we're using that are best practices. And we've also conducted a demand or market analysis that helps us learn where we expect to see the most users for bike share. So this strategic expansion plan will guide us through the next ten years of system growth. We today we have about 76 stations. We hope over the next ten years to have 300 stations. So it's a huge growth. We hope to, you know, today our system is mostly focused in the central business district and UT and some in east Austin, and it's really around commercial and business centers. And we want to expand those to the neighborhood and have that first and last mile transit connection. So that people can use the bikes to get to where they need to go. We've also been working with atp to make sure that bike share stations are located at the planned light rail stations, and they we have ten stations that will be ten bike share stations that will be co-located with the new rapid stations. So we're anticipating really making that transit bike share connection so that people [1:14:38 PM] share connection so that people can use the busses and trains to get around. And then finally, we are being really careful that as we grow, we're doing it sustainably. So acknowledging that we may need to densify in some areas where we are today. So we want to make sure that we're keeping up with the demand and growth. So back in 2021, we had an initial strategic plan. And it and it outlined a three phased growth plan. And because of kind of covid, we didn't get to do as much community engagement as we wanted to do. It did establish some basic types edges. So for this next round of the expansion plan, first off we now have the before there was a nonprofit organization called bike share of Austin. They're now part of capmetro. So we know more about the operational resources required to make the system work. So the plan will include direction about how to use more efficiently operational resources to operate the system. We're also renewing a market study so we know who's using it and when and where. And we have [1:15:39 PM] and when and where. And we have a very much more robust community engagement phase. And just the first phase was in March and April. We had over a thousand people respond to our community survey. It was online and people could, you know, pick where they wanted the stations to go. And we use that information for the second round of outreach. But you know, overwhelmingly, people want to use these bikes to get to fun places in Austin to explore and enjoy everything that Austin has to offer. Some people are using it to get to and from school, and others are using it as a way to connect to their bus or train or car. But people want more stations. They want more stations in places they want to go. They want more electric bikes, they want more, better availability of stations. And we really think that the strategic plan will help us get there so that we can get better usage of the bikes, top two reasons people don't use metro bike is because the lack of bicycle infrastructure and it wasn't the bikes weren't necessarily feasible for the types of trips they wanted to make by bicycle. So now we're on our second phase of outreach. We had, like I mentioned, our open house last [1:16:40 PM] mentioned, our open house last Saturday at and we hope you guys can, you know, go to public input .com/ metro bike to engage in our virtual open house. And there's a qr code there. And looking forward to seeing the feedback on what we learned from our our first outreach session. And this is my final slide. And just making a plug for our cat metro transit plan 2035. The last time we did a transit plan was in 2015, so I just wanted to make everyone aware that the planning process is going on right now. And stay tuned for more information about cat metro's transit plan. Thank you. >> Thank you for that presentation. And I should mention that the bike that you see in front of the dais is the new metro bike. That's going to be rolling out that folks have been working on for a little while. Do we have questions from the committee members? Council member qadri great, thank you all for being here today, I, I, myself and my team did a team bike ride last night, which it is very hot, so I will I will [1:17:41 PM] is very hot, so I will I will not wear jeans next time I do that, but really excited about more docking stations coming up throughout the city. I know a lot of folks in our district use it, you know, students in and around west campus, but I know there isn't. You know, there's still some places within district nine, for example, where we don't have stations. You know, I think north of UT, I think of the Mueller neighborhood. Miller neighborhood, so my question is, do you guys have any ideas based on feedback and data on where stations will be going soon, and how long until we see them on the ground in those areas? >> Sure. So, as I mentioned, coming, you know, mid-august will be just a replacement of the system, but, you know, as Jacob said, we have this grant coming and so we'll be able to I think, as soon as we get the agreement signed and we can make an order. It's a four month lead time to when we can buy more bikes. So we're anticipating, you know, maybe spring ish of next year that we'll be able to have our next round of stations [1:18:41 PM] have our next round of stations going down. Great. And the places that you mentioned are, of course, are high on our radar as well. Great. >> Yeah, I live in the Mueller Mueller neighborhood, I was terrified of what to call it, but I would be so excited if we could get some metro bikes up there. >> Thank you. Sure. Thank you. >> And on that note, I would love to ask about. Are there any , are there any opportunities in the future for non dockless bikes? I know there some communities nationwide that actually can rent a bike for longer than a day a week. You know, you check it out, you pay your daily rent or your weekly rent on the bike, and then you bring it back to a train. Stop for instance, are there any plans in the future to try to move us into that area where people, you know, for instance, district eight, we don't have a lot of docks, so can people take them home and bring them back in the morning so they can get to work and redock it a few hours later, you know, the next morning? How how are plans progressing on that? [1:19:41 PM] progressing on that? >> That's a really hard question. I think, you know, we have leaned away from dockless, just in general because it's more, you know, a docked bike. It's more organized and it has better anti-theft mechanisms, and as you, as you say, an overnight rental isn't something, you know, the, the concept, the original conception of the bike share system was for first and last mile. And to help people get, you know, for that those little short trips and also for commuters at the time. But, I hope that we have more stations in district eight that, you know, you will see them closer to neighborhoods where people could, you know, wake up and then walk to a station and be able to use it. >> I appreciate that, I know that I think zilker park is probably the farthest southwest that district eight has any sort of docking availability, and that is just the northernmost portion of the district eight. So I'm really excited about that conversation. I know that I see the lime bikes further into the district because people are using that option, but I know [1:20:43 PM] using that option, but I know there's been some concerns with, where those bikes are left and how they're retrieved and charged, so if there's anything that we can do to be helpful in this conversation, I would love for us to get to that daily, weekly rental where you have trusted renters and users that you know where they're going, you know where they need to be picked up if repairs are needed or that they're coming back to the office locations closest to the dock in the morning. I feel like you want to speak on that. >> Sure, absolutely. So outside of the metro bike system, we are definitely looking at other tdm measures to introduce bikes in places without really good access to, say, a docked solution, so we did apply for a climate pollution reduction grant, hopefully we hear back on that in July, and a significant amount investment in that grant is for mobility hubs and I think that would bring another option, [1:21:43 PM] that would bring another option, may not be metro bike, but it could be a really good opportunity to bring a different sort of decentralized solution on, to the far flung, you know, areas of district eight and district two, you know, that might not be best served by a docked solution. >> And that would be in regard to bicycles as opposed to mobility hub, meaning park and ride, which are also really good options. >> Yeah. So mobility hubs have a variety of typologies. You can have a large mobility hub that would be a park and ride type solution or you could have even a small little mobility hub at, say, a shopping center, or just co-locate dated. As Nadia said earlier, with a metro rapid stop , and have multiple modes available to people, whether it be bike or car share or transit or something to that effect. >> Okay, that's really helpful. And I had heard just recently there was actually a space in the central library that may at one point have been envisioned [1:22:44 PM] one point have been envisioned for a bike parking, bike hub, bike repair. Do you know anything about that? Are you willing to share any of that information with us? Today? >> We are in active conversations with the central library to, look at that space and really reactivate it, in a way that would make it more of a mobility hub in a better way to get to and from the central library more sustainably. >> That'd be great. I know most folks I know that are trying bicycling for the very first time. They're always curious about, can I repair a flat tire? Can I, you know, rent a bike for a little while and use it for the afternoon and then return it in ways that are, you know, kind of different than what our metro bike program does, but still in, in the same vein. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> You all right? Council member harper-madison any questions? Any more questions? >> Thank you. >> Okay. I think that does it for this item. And the next one that we will move on to is going [1:23:46 PM] that we will move on to is going to be item two, an update from the urban transportation commission on. Do we have our chair miss Summers here with us? Oh, you're taking the bike okay, I'll, we'll we'll see you later. We'll see you later. We know where to find it. >> Your virtual. >> Welcome, chair. Summers, are you here? >> I am here, can you hear me? >> We can hear you. >> Okay, great. I don't know, I think kind of seems like my video isn't running. Oh, there I am. Hello. Hi. We can see you now, great. Well, I'll. I'll just hop right in. So, I, I believe I post it to, discuss both the, April and may utc meetings. Is that correct? [1:24:49 PM] meetings. Is that correct? Before I proceed, I just wanted to double check on that. Yes. >> So, yes, those are what we are posted for, I'm not sure how much time we have to what I'm posted for. So yes, we appreciate that. We've got about maybe 15 minutes or so for report and q&a on this item. >> Great. Okay, I'll hop right in. So, we had a especially busy , and long utc meetings in April and November or April and may. I'm skipping. I'm just taking the year in full, I guess in April and may, and so I will, run you through those items. I don't have a powerpoint prepared today. Of course, all these recommendations are published on our commission site, so. I'll start with, in April, we did have an itod recommendation, and, I want to, I know that you all have already taken action on that. Just, very last week, I believe, as a council. So I don't want to belabor that too [1:25:50 PM] don't want to belabor that too much. What I will say is that the utc recommendation is definitely, considering the transit supportive density that is necessary to make project connect successful. And so I'll just read you the resolve, but it's in this is something that I think could be fruitful exploring with the tod phase two, I know that we're going to be actively moving into that, in the next year to continue to iterate and improve the tod, see what what comes of what we did this time and continue to improve it. Of course, and it says urban transportation commission recommends that city council direct the city manager to direct staff to consider additional base Zones for the tod overlay subject consideration and limitations that staff has already used in selecting base Zones as overlay candidates. But omitting the restriction to non single family Zones with the goal of enabling application of the overlay to at least 50% of the land area within one half mile of phase one. Austin light rail alignment and priority extensions. So [1:26:51 PM] and priority extensions. So that's just, you know, a recommendation that we took, a little bit beyond about what staff had proposed. And we will continue to discuss that. I'm sure, in the next year or so. We also had a recommendation that, I helped write that I'm really excited about, which is around living streets and pedestrian vibrancy. So to give you a sense of how this recommendation came to fruition, utc was hearing from constituents, that, sometimes, when citizens try to make improvements to their neighborhood that make, a bit more a more of a living and walkable place, perhaps things like a little free libraries, flower beds, community bulletin boards, benches. These are things that citizens are installing themselves, maybe at the edge of their yard or something. And some of these have some obstacles in code, that prevent citizens from doing these of their own volition to serve their community. And so, [1:27:52 PM] serve their community. And so, as we were discussing this, we also began to realize that in some jurisdictions, other cities around our country, there's actually quite a bit of effort that cities make to fund. And install, these types of street furniture and, just to make it sort of a more walkable place. And this is very in line with current public health guidance about making communities more welcoming and making people feel a sense of connectedness and battling our loneliness epidemic in society. So this is something that I personally feel very strongly about. So you can read the recommendation, council members, but, basically, if you look at the be it resolved, it says, let's look at what barriers we're placing that, prevent citizens that install, you know, these types of community building infrastructure that are what are what are we doing that prevents people from doing this on their own now? Because we don't really want to create obstacles when people are doing that voluntarily to improve their communities. And consider [1:28:53 PM] communities. And consider passing code amendments that remove these types of barriers. And we checked with living streets as well. I should add, and we think that this could support their program. I think their, pretty well on board with this and excited about it. We're very excited with all the developments on living streets in the last year. So those are all exciting things, and so then we further recommend, recommend that we consider city programs, which will encourage these programs, including the city itself, potentially designing and installing this infrastructure. And we also recommend that Austin, tx and, we continue their efforts to coordinate so that the living streets projects, are so we had heard from living streets a couple times. So, so that we're looking at ways that living streets that have been existing, successful, popular, how can we make sure that those living streets eventually are sort of upgraded to our more permanent shared streets? Because I think that that's I think the staff has a lot of good ideas with that. But we want to make sure [1:29:54 PM] that. But we want to make sure that process continues to be looked at. And then finally that we recommended initiating code amendments to remove the permitting requirement for neighborhood block parties and move the application from the Austin building, connect permitting portal to the smart mobility portal. And this is just to make block parties, a little bit more in line with the other living streets and healthy streets and make it a little bit easier for citizens to accomplish that. Okay so that's that one, we also had, a recommendation around the airport, so you may have heard that the airport commission passed this, same, I don't want to say it's the same because we made a few tweaks on it for the utc purposes, but it's, basically, recommending that the department of aviation coordinate with APD, AFD, ems, tp, vision zero, and txdot to and promote pedestrian, bicycle, driver and vehicle safety in and around abia. And also keeping at [1:30:55 PM] around abia. And also keeping at least one lane in each direction , including airport entrances and exits open under most circumstances. This is in consideration of some of the traffic violence and emergency handling that's happened at the airport, and just thinking about how to keep everyone safe through all modes. So, airport commission, I think, could come to us and ask us if we could consider this. And we thought that we could definitely be on board with that, so that is, oh, I'll do one more. I actually don't know if y'all have done south central waterfront, but we had a south central waterfront really looking at the transportation aspects of south central waterfront and will, do this, try to do this one very quickly, so we are be it resolves are a little technical maybe, but it says, we recommend the city council, direct the city manager to consider and initiate amendments to the asmp street network table for the south central waterfront [1:31:56 PM] south central waterfront district. Upon the publishing of the project connect Nepa, Eis, record of decision to ensure the street, grid and levels create a transit supportive environment. There are some concern that some of the streets that are identified in the smp street network, or different plans, may have a certain level of traffic or lanes that may be less compatible with transit. So making sure whenever we get our final Eis for project connect that we are then going back and aligning our plans for south central waterfront and smp so that we can ensure that the street levels that we're planning coordinate with the safety and the operation of light rail transit, and of course, our busses to, needless to say, so, we also appreciate, the, the increased far limit. So, there was some concern and some early drafts of south Windsor waterfront that the far that was near, perhaps near where the proposed light rail station was lesser, and so that has been adjusted around where [1:32:57 PM] has been adjusted around where we think the light rail station will be. We recommend that city council, alter the south central waterfront, combining district and density bonus regulations to maximize access to the waterfront light rail station by reclassifying our parcels to located directly on Riverside drive to the east of congress to subdistrict 4 or 5. This is basically focusing our density around our light rail station so that increasing access to amenities, to housing, in a walkable way from the light rail, we recommend the bonus program structure, reflect a greater need for transit supportive infrastructure by weighting those, improvements more heavily, we recommend that the internal circulation routes within the south central waterfront district be preserved by having public assets access easements to allow the public to move freely. This would be sort of just an upgrade or additional protection of preserving those internal circulation routes. And, this one was the one that was, you know, the most probably [1:33:58 PM] was, you know, the most probably inspired the most debate whether or not that, the fee and Lou from the collect it from south central waterfront should be retained within south central Austin or it should be able to go, anywhere within a half mile of a metro rail stop or a quarter mile of a metro high frequency bus stop. And ultimately we were we did pass an amendment that said that. So we were making that recommendation, with the fee. And Lou, so, and I actually don't know if you passed south central, but now you heard what we did, I will quickly go through our may, we heard a really great presentation about cap and stitch. Only recommend listening to that. I learned a lot. That was a lot of great new info there, our big recommendation Ann. It was one recommendation in may. It was around, shared mobility solutions and scooters, dockless as you are. I'm sure well aware that there were, enhanced regulations to the shared mobility program that were communicated in early mid-april, that took a lot of folks by [1:35:00 PM] that took a lot of folks by surprise. So, our recommendation there was that tpw and city council immediately take action to better align the city's shared mobility policies with the city's values on safety, mobility, equity and transparency, that we recommend that tpw to increase the enhanced regulations for the shared mobility program into changes for the director's rules for deployment and operations of shared small vehicle mobility systems. And we recommend that the rule making process for dockless vehicles prioritize robust public engagement notification of stakeholders, board and commission review. City council feedback and be evaluated on whether the rules will help the city meet the asmp shared mobility goals, which indicators shared mobility indicators and targets, which I think this is really important. Increasing the usage of shared mobility solution, increasing the share of shared mobility trips that originate or end in areas that are historically underrepresented and underserved , increase the coverage of shared mobility solutions and [1:36:00 PM] shared mobility solutions and increase the density of shared mobility vehicles. So I think it's safe to say that the tenor of this recommendation is that making sure that the rules that we're making around dockless mobility align with actually what's in our plan for the shared mobility. Austin strategic mobility plan and making sure that we're we're aligning those things. So what did we say we wanted to do with these things? And what are we actually doing in the rules that we're, enforcing, there were some other great items we had approved two right of way vacations. I don't have a lot to say about those. Those were good, we also had, as I said, the cap and stitch. And we had a really, really intriguing presentation from capital delivery services about their public engagement process. I really recommend you watch. I don't usually say this. I really recommend you watch that item. And I definitely stand ready to speak to any council office that wants to about that item and about, just about my experiences with the, bond spending and discuss that with you at your, at your convenience. So that's [1:37:03 PM] at your convenience. So that's all I've got for you today. >> Thank you. Chair Summers. We certainly appreciate your work and the work of the other commissioners that that work on, on these boards and commissions and in a volunteer capacity. We know it's a lot of work, and we appreciate your dedication to these topics. Are there any questions for the chair at this moment? >> Not a question. Just a comment, I guess. And maybe not even for the chair. It's just a thank you chair, just more of a comment, and I appreciate the update from chair Summers, we've heard as an office from folks loud and clear, and we're working with tpw on exactly what the six month review review will entail, so that we have more data to work with in the fall for policy direction for scooters, I understand the Wright staff can't be here today to speak to this review in more detail, but it's looking like we're on track towards a good process as accountable to many community concerns. So I just wanted to. >> Yeah. And if I could respond to that to our discussion on the commission, we understand that some of the rule changes that [1:38:04 PM] some of the rule changes that were recently implemented were implemented from, you know, a definite concern that scooter injuries, are really, harmful. And perhaps widespread and severe, I believe that, folks from local hospitals and ems may have approached, to discuss that. I think it's fair to say that everyone on utc is laser focused on safety as well, however, we don't really have a lot of data on how many accidents are happening on scooters, what the severity of those are, what the cause of those are. So is it, you know, someone putting on a scooter scooter late at night and they're intoxicated and you know, they have an accident or were they hit by a car on their scooter? Like, you know, there's a lot of different ways that you can look at that data. So I think that I don't know what structures and tools we have to start getting at that data. But I would definitely agree that, like, I think that many of us feel that scooters like, [1:39:04 PM] feel that scooters like, improved our lives, made us have more safe transportation options. So it would really be good to understand how they're fitting into our our plans around safety and shared mobility equity that are all outlined in the smp. For me, that's what it's always kind of goes back to that is that asmp? And that was definitely what our conversation at utc also centered around. >> Great. >> Thank you. >> Great. Thank you for that report. If there's no other questions, we will move on to item number three. The urban trails and sidewalk program updates. >> All right. Welcome. Thank you . >> Can we make sure the microphones. >> Yeah okay. >> There we go. >> There we go. Hello and good [1:40:05 PM] >> There we go. Hello and good afternoon. I'm Justin Norvell, with the sidewalks and urban trails division of the transportation and public works department. And Eid. And I'm here to provide a summary update on, sidewalks and urban trails programs. And I've also got Laura Dern field division manager from active transportation here today to talk about C home mobility improvements, so today's today's presentation basically let me go here, covers the progress Austin's making at sidewalk and urban trail network, but we'd like to start by acknowledging, that that work is really a result of great planning and policy framework that helps envision a compact and connected city, with complete and well-maintained pedestrian and bicycle networks, so we'll start with sidewalks, and it's always helpful to have a little context , so how do we get here? It was a lot of steps, a lot of sidewalk steps and a lot of planning steps, a few of the highlights include the 1991 adoption of the Americans with disabilities act, or the Ada, title two of that law requires [1:41:06 PM] title two of that law requires that local governments avoid discrimination, for people with disabilities when providing programs or facilities. So where those programs are, facilities like sidewalks, for instance, are not compliant, a plan to transition from that noncompliance to compliance, must be developed and implemented. And so in 2009, then, we, had the adoption of Austin's first, Ada transition plan for sidewalks. And, and it's really this proactive approach that's, to addressing these sidewalk issues that's helped Austin avoid, you know, the class action lawsuits and consent decrees that have been experienced by over 140 cities, including Philadelphia, Oakland, Portland, Nashville, los Angeles, and many others. Our transition plan was then updated in 2016 and again most recently in 2023. And a big kudos to dpw director Mendoza and multiple city councils as well for following through on the funding commitments in those plans, [1:42:07 PM] commitments in those plans, gradually increasing the operating funding for sidewalk, maintenance and rehab, including another $1 million in recommended, increase this year. And so what's cool is we're also doing it equitably, and that's thanks to the work of, you know, advocates, consultants and staff who developed the 2009 plan, that that really developed the prioritization model that we've been using for the last 15 years, and it's making a real difference. And analysis completed for the 2023 plan update shows that both the extents and the conditions of sidewalks are slightly better in areas with historically marginalized populations, which is great progress, and better than past historical practices. The problem is we still have a long ways to go to achieve a truly equitable transportation system and a system where someone walking or rolling or using transit can safely, access all the same destinations that someone driving can. And, you know, I just want to also point [1:43:08 PM] know, I just want to also point out that we have a lot of missing sidewalks, and we still have a lot of sidewalks that need to be fixed, but we're moving in the right direction at a much faster pace than comparable cities. As a matter of fact, Portland, recently published a report on, how they're complying with their sidewalk consent decree. And last year, they last year, they rebuilt or repaired 18,000 linear feet of sidewalks. By comparison, in Austin, we're building or repairing over 20,000 linear feet of sidewalks every month. And that's, over almost four miles of new rehab sidewalks every single month. So we're really proud of that, so the 2023 plan takes both a pragmatic and context sensitive approach to addressing the sidewalk gaps and the over 1500 miles of, missing sidewalk in the pedestrian network, it envisions a network where, sidewalks are on the both sides of most streets in the network, but in those areas where, you know, we might have a mature trees and landscaping, steep slopes and, you know, a sidewalk on one side of the street might [1:44:10 PM] on one side of the street might be adequate, and sufficient. And so for some low volume residential areas as well, we're thinking the shared streets might provide a faster, more sustainable and lower cost approach, and then so rather than taking over 100 years to build out the sidewalks in every frontage of every street, we can envision completing a citywide pedestrian network in a 20 to 30 year time frame. Instead so a programmatic approach is really key, to delivering the goals of the plan. And it's an iterative approach that allows that's both flexible and adaptable, it starts with understanding the condition of the network and then using that to create an annual service plan and then coordinating that among the various programs in the city, which is then communicated through our stakeholders through the mobility annual plan process . And, and then those improvements are built with a combination of both contract and in-house crews. And then it's a wash, rinse, repeat, the coordination among those programs allows us to address multiple city priorities for every city project, basically. And a credit to Nathan Wilks [1:45:10 PM] And a credit to Nathan Wilks with the bikeways program, for developing this chart. And also being a key contributor, and organized user of the programs and resources that enable a lot of micro changes in each of these projects, basically a macro scales and in large, large scale improvements. So literally hundreds of intersection, bikeway, safe routes to school, pedestrian crossing and sidewalk improvements are completed and developed and refined and then built every single year, so the projects that we have in the soviet program are built using an innovative field engineering unit cost delivery method, and that results in faster project delivery and also lower cost and with limited excavation, limited, for these, and limited impact for these streetscape improvements, this approach also allows for scaling, five years ago there were typically 7 or 8 crews working every day. And today it's 20 or more. And in fact, right now it's actually 26 crews. So it's a it's a big jump [1:46:12 PM] crews. So it's a it's a big jump over the past few years, the sidewalk program, website also has this interactive map that you can see on the left, and it shows current and upcoming projects, for all those crews. And it can be filtered down to show, and this is on the right side, what we've completed. And this is basically what we've completed, in fiscal year to date. And that's, over 20 miles of new and rehab sidewalk projects in just six months, so we're making a lot of progress. But the citizens of Austin would like us to move faster. And so the 23 plan sets ambitious goals for fixing the sidewalk network, which would require almost doubling the existing, annual funding for rehab work, the current annual budget is about 16 million, and for new sidewalks, the goal is to complete all the very high and high priority gaps in the pedestrian network within ten years, and that would increase require an increase of about 50% from existing new sidewalk budgets. Okay, so now we're switching gears, for the urban [1:47:14 PM] switching gears, for the urban trails update, this year we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of, Austin's adoption of the first urban trails plan. And now we're actually working to implement the first update to that plan, which was adopted in November 23rd, and the big picture is basically we're trying to add 200 miles of trail overall, and looking to, to add 100 miles over the next 20 years. And so that's about five miles a year. And this is basically a network build out map from the 23 plan update, and this map here highlights the existing trails with the solid lines and also the tier one trails and the dotted lines. And these are the primary near-term focus for the urban trails program. And then, thanks a lot to a lot of coordinated efforts between, city groups and programs, you know, we're making a lot of progress. We've, since 2017, 20 miles of new trails have been constructed. And, with one of the most significant projects being, shoal creek [1:48:15 PM] projects being, shoal creek trail north of 38th, which was, basically spearheaded by our active transportation and bikeways program. So and we're also actively working on almost 40 miles of these focused projects all over the city, several of the projects include, walnut creek trail, red line trail, shoal creek trail, and those are basically components of what we refer to as the big loop. And that's a continuous 30 mile network connecting the lady bird lake to areas around north and east Houston. So for some highlights of the projects that are under construction are about to start. On the right side, you'll see a recently constructed, completed connection from the Mok can trail to the sappi branch library and, and then at the top with the crane, that's actually a photo of the Austin manor trail, which is expected to be complete this summer. And then the bottom picture is the wishbone bridge, which is managed by our capital delivery services and started construction this summer. So the estimated total cost of the [1:49:15 PM] estimated total cost of the active projects includes over, you know, including right of way acquisition includes over $150 million of projects, and approximately. We approximately have about $60 million in funding secured through approved bonds and federal grants. And, many thanks to our congressional delegation, congressman, Doggett has been critical in securing a lot of community funding for multiple trails projects. And congressman Casar is following in his footsteps. So we're glad to have that, and it's not just building trails, we're also working to develop a green infrastructure, and that includes increasing shade, utilize Singh drainage, neutral design, to improve appearance and functionality of the trails while while also reducing the design and permit issues that we might have. So, and then we're working closely with our active transportation Ann and capital delivery services on the Seaholm district mobility improvements. And I'm going to invite Laura dinner filled up to speak about that. And we can have time for [1:50:17 PM] that. And we can have time for q&a. So >> Thank you, Justin. Thank you for having us, this is a quick update on the series of projects that are funded through, council action that occurred late last year, dedicating $12.5 million towards multimodal improvements in the Seaholm area. As you can see on the map, there are a set of five projects that we're pursuing simultaneously. I'll go through each one briefly and then speak to what we're doing with each. So, Justin's group with the sidewalks and special, and urban trails division is working on number one, which is a sidewalk along the south curb of Cesar Chavez street, roughly from Sandra Morita way to San Antonio street, remarkably, this is, you know, a major arterial without that connection. So this will be a great alternative, you know, to the so-called bowie underpass, which a lot of these projects are speaking to, having , closed the Seaholm, tirz tiff number 18 and, fulfilling that final project that was on that [1:51:18 PM] final project that was on that list. So this is one of those options, that project is again being led by the sidewalks program. Number two is some specialized signage that you can see in place at Sandra right away, as well as br. Reynolds to the west here. And we like to call them blank out signs, which are signs that are, blank. Most of the time. But then they light up with a message to the driver, highlighting the conflict between people walking and biking and people driving across those, those conflict Zones. So at west and Walter Seaholm drive, we're looking to add that same treatment. So you'll experience a very consistent warning as you, as you cross the, you know, use that north curb the, the crosstown bikeway that that exists there. Now again, another great alternative to getting east and west, which the underpass was meant to provide. And then number number three, looking upwards towards the oblong shape near the [1:52:19 PM] the oblong shape near the intersection of third street and west avenue, this is an area that can be a little confusing. You have sort of two streets, you have the street that kind of parallels called power plant drive that parallels trader Joe's as well as the third third street itself. So looking to reorganize that space to the best of our ability to kind of create that intuitive, comfortable and connected, east west movement as well as recognizing there's a north south movement to the shoal creek trail that you can access off of west, just to the north there at the bridge, that work, along with projects four and five, will be, taking those to the community later this summer for some options there, I'll, I'll pivot to four and five. Those are probably the largest and most challenging and complicated projects. But briefly, what we're looking to do is grade separate the shoal creek trail, there at third street. So that the hairpin turns and kind of poor visibility is eliminated. We get just a much better, more comfortable east west, north [1:53:19 PM] comfortable east west, north south, movement there for people walking and biking. It's very, it's a very, you know, high volume node in our urban trails and bikeway network. And then to the immediate east of there, crossing the shoal creek, is a historic trestle bridge. As well as the bike ped bridge there that together we're looking at ways to make that, you know, more useful as an east west connection as well as a place that we can, enjoy some of the vistas that that that particular , vantage point offers. And understanding that trestle bridge and how it might be either repurposed, referenced or otherwise, you know, recognized in, in the history and the, and the placement that it has now, it does have a lot of issues associated with it. So that is still quite a long ways to go, again, those numbers three, four and five, we have a variety of, of options that are being [1:54:22 PM] of options that are being developed. We're in contract with hdr to help us with that. And we should be bringing those options to the neighbor, to the community and to the core stakeholder group that's been a part of this later this summer for discussions on how we best go forward from there. We would imagine additional detailed design necessary, certainly for four and five. To bring that about. And then the third and west piece, we would look to, to, develop design documents and , and work through existing contracts to develop that piece with that, I'll pause and maybe bring us enjoying Justin, for any questions. >> Do we have questions from the committee members? Let's start with council member vela. >> Thank you. Chair. >> Member qadri, okay. Just council member vela on the existing trails and plan tier one network map. >> You know, those are you see them outlined, which are the tier one trails. How are we? Is there an order of tier one [1:55:24 PM] there an order of tier one trails that are funded? You know, this one is next. This one is next. How are we prioritizing within the tier one trail network, what we're going to build first? >> Yeah. Currently there's about 38 miles of trails that are in some sort of active state, some sort of design, and that basically represents about $150 million worth of projects. And, and so we're at about $60 million worth of funding. So that's what that's what's driving our priority right now is basically where, where we're where the program is at right now with the level of funding and the amount of projects that we have. So the projects that are in design currently are basically, as a result, the priority. Okay. >> So essentially the ones that we've already done some design and engineering on are moving forward. The ones that we do not have a design engineer and engineering on are still on the shelf, correct? Yes, sir. Got it, I think that's about all I had on that, and in terms of [1:56:26 PM] had on that, and in terms of that $60 million, that's again a mix of the funding sources that you were, speaking to bond, congressional, you know, etcetera, etcetera. Yes, sir. All right. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Is there a current budget line item? Or maybe we will get that in the next couple of weeks about the sidewalks and urban trails, the standing of those dollars from the 2020 active mobility bond is, is that information that that we'll get soon? >> Yeah. We can we can provide I think we provide regular updates to our executive team of where we're at in spending, I know that we've we've completed spending of the 2016 bond within the soviet program. And, so, yeah, we're we're on track to we're moving moving through the 2020 bond quickly. >> Fantastic. I know there's a lot of gaps that that are being filled. And I'm really happy that that bond was approved by voters and that it's moving [1:57:26 PM] voters and that it's moving forward quickly, I think there was a little, a little bit of delay that we gave because of covid and just trying to get contracts right sized, make sure the project planning was in order. And so I know staff's been working very hard on that. And I know when the budget comes out, we'll see kind of those annual standings of where or where the bond proposals are and where other sorts of general fund commitments are lying right now. >> Yep. >> Sounds good. Any further questions? >> Actually, one more question. >> I'm sorry, sir, and just a specific, and I'm not sure if you have this information, but. And I know I've asked this before, I'm just trying to confirm for my own memory the, tiny little piece that is going to be between broadmoor and 51st street over Tannehill creek. I know that's a tier one. There is no engineering and design that has been done on that, though. If I remember correctly. >> That's correct. Yeah. We're aware of the community engagement and support for that trail. But yeah, there's not been any engineering analysis done on that trail as of yet. [1:58:26 PM] done on that trail as of yet. >> Thus it's on the shelf with, the un, it's on the unfunded tier one list. Yeah. >> Without some name funding or something. Yes sir. >> Got it. And, sorry, one more question. How much does it cost to drop a little bridge over a creek? >> Well, yeah. And so I'd like to say that, you know, I'd love to say it's just a little bridge and it's a small cost, but there's a, there's a whole lot of drainage factors. It's in a floodplain, and so it could be multi millions of dollars. >> So it's just what would be the, the range. I mean are we talking about like 1 million, 5 million. What's kind of again again I'm thinking a relatively short creek. Not a like a walnut creek for example. Walnut creek is huge. >> Yeah for sure. And I don't really have that cost, I'll be honest with you. But we can definitely follow up with your office and provide that information. But it's definitely in the millions of dollars range. >> Just out of curiosity, because I know in saint John on buttermilk creek there's a similar, you know, where they're not big creeks, but they create a real gap for pedestrians and bicyclists. And so to me, [1:59:27 PM] bicyclists. And so to me, there's just so much to be gained out of a tiny little connection, you know, here or there that, that, that help. But again, appreciate it. No further questions. Thank you. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> I appreciate that question because I know that we've had some conversations at work session on the dais about our bond implementation program, what the appropriate timing is, whether they are single issue bonds we take to the voters, whether they are, you know, these these big, you know, items, a through G that that we're taking to people to make sure we can fund the projects that the community is asking for. So I really appreciate that. I know that I think I recently saw the tier one trails are expected to be completed by 2043. Is that a number that would be accelerated should there be a future bond to help use those voter approved dollars to accelerate those projects? Could how how quickly can we get the tier one done? >> Yeah, it you know, definitely I think there's definitely the possibility of that. The truth is, is that, you know, as converse to sidewalks or, you [2:00:28 PM] converse to sidewalks or, you know, urban trails are oftentimes long lead times and requires a lot of design right away. Acquisition Ann that stuff takes a long time to do. So for sure. If there's dedicated funding to it, we could start a lot of a lot of those processes up front. But, it's you know, it's a it's a fairly reasonable time frame. But yeah, if it's if it's moved up and it could be moved up in the timeline, I believe. >> So some of the dollars could help accelerate those programs if we can show the community as supportive of trying to get those done quicker. Yeah, great. I appreciate that. And I know in some of the bond development that we've worked on over the past couple of years, there's always the preliminary engineering report side of it. And then, you know, you have to kind of work through those steps and then figure out what is the actual construction look like and build out that timeline. So I know it can be a lengthy process. >> And chair to your comment, the, for example, again, going back to walnut creek, we don't have the easements necessary to do a lot of what we want to do. Again, my understanding is that [2:01:28 PM] Again, my understanding is that we don't have the easements necessary to do a lot, but there are others, again, thinking about that 51st and broadmoor, where we have everything in terms of the easement stuff, we just, you know, we need to do the engineering. And that would be also a good, you know, thinking about if we were to pass a bond to do some things, which ones are basically just lacking engineering, design, construction, and which ones are larger, longer term things where we don't even have the rights that we need much less starting to think about construction. I appreciate that point. I think it's a really important point. >> Right. It's hard to engineer it until you have the land to be able to assess, because you may have an owner that's not on site . They may not live in Austin, it may be an old railroad. It may be some other sort of consideration in another governmental entity may own it and so, you know, those conversations can draw out for quite a while before we even get to the green light to actually draw up the plans and make sure we know what we need to do. Yeah. Any more questions on this item? I think we're all done. Thanks for the presentation and [2:02:30 PM] Thanks for the presentation and thanks for your work. All right. The next item will be a briefing on the 2024 mobility annual plan . I'm very excited about this. For folks that aren't familiar with mobility annual plan as a name, there's a way to look up on the city website which projects are selected for this year? Which ones are included in the budget, which funding bucket they come from. And so we're very excited to get this update. >> Thanks for the invitation to be here. Our annual may update to the mobility annual plan, followed by a, a bike ride, which would be great, my name is Anna Merten, assistant director of transportation and public works, let's go ahead and go to the slide two. Or. Okay. So I know you all have some a lot of familiarity with [2:03:30 PM] some a lot of familiarity with the local mobility annual plan process, but as a quick refresher, this process began with the 2016 mobility bond. Of the $720 million in bond funding, 137 million was allocated to local mobility programs so that sidewalks, bikeways, safe routes to school, urban trails and vision zero, and capital renewal. Additional funds have since been allocated to these programs via the 2018 and 2020 bonds as well, so we use an annual planning process to collaborate on and forecast out projects that we plan on working on in the upcoming year. This allows our staff to be transparent and accountable to the community. On the use of the bond funds, but doing this annually allows us to be flexible and opportunistic to leverage with other programs private development, and react to the dynamic needs of an ever changing Austin, next slide please. So what this looks like in practice, once a year, usually beginning in the fall, [2:04:30 PM] usually beginning in the fall, each program shares data on the plan projects that they would like to work on in the upcoming year. And they draw on prioritization in their modal plans like atx walk, bike roll, then we hold an internal charrette to review overlaps and opportunities. We draft an initial local mobility annual plan. We meet with council offices, usually at the beginning of the year, to get your feedback and see if we have any gaps in what you're hearing from the community, we make iterations and then we publish the local mobility annual plan for the public, and you can find it in two forms online. We have a written document as well as an interactive map. And that final plan becomes our guide for project development and delivery for the next 12 months. Maybe I can just do this myself. Okay, okay. So success is the 2016 bond. Was the pilot of these locomotives programs, and the [2:05:31 PM] locomotives programs, and the expectation was set that we could meet an eight year delivery time frame. And I'm happy to report that the flexible, small scale delivery has allowed staff to largely meet this goal. So of the 137,000,119 million has been spent on projects that are already on the ground and that folks can use every day, the sidewalks program, which Justin just briefly on vision zero and substandard streets are already complete, we're forecasting that safe routes to school and bikeways are on track to complete this year as well, and as Justin mentioned, the urban trails, program was recently moved under the leadership of the sidewalks team with a goal, really to ramp up that spending as well. So looking ahead at the 2024 map, we have over 500 discrete projects planned. These projects reflect the closeout of the 2016 local mobility bond, as well as continued spending from our 2018 and 2020 bonds. [2:06:33 PM] our 2018 and 2020 bonds. Sidewalks are. Justin just gave you a great overview of the, the amount of ramp up the sidewalks team has gone through in the last few years, but just last year, they completed over 46 miles of new and rehabilitated sidewalks, installed over 1000 curb ramps, citywide. So work planned in 2024 includes investments on Matthews lane, Kramer lane, parker and rundberg, just to name a few. The safe routes to school program has completed more than 400 projects at 100 schools since inception in 2016. Some notable projects. In 2023 included new crossings and sidewalks for kids at Blanton, Travis heights, and pond springs elementary schools, 11 new crossings for students at pioneer crossing elementary, new crossing at 12th and cedar street serving Campbell, new sidewalks and pedestrian [2:07:34 PM] sidewalks and pedestrian crossings at pecan springs elementary school. Multiple investments near martin middle school, as well as Sanchez and Zavala elementary schools. And coming up in 2024, they're going to be touching dozens more schools, some work that's forecasted is around Anderson mill elementary, baranof elementary and saint Elmo and Joslin elementary schools, as well as Webb middle school. And I'll be showing you a link to the map where you can dig in and look at all the forecasted work. Of course, for next year. Urban trails, that team is continuing to develop projects based on the funding that they have. And as Justin mentioned, they have over 38 miles of active projects right now. And that design, development and construction work will continue into 24, street wahab street rehab, completed 20 reconstruction or rehab projects last year. They have nine projects in our [2:08:35 PM] have nine projects in our forecast, including investments in in Trinity and San Jacinto in downtown 25th and 26th streets in west campus and oak springs drive in east Austin. In 2023, the vision zero program completed numerous projects across the various program components, including seven major intersection safety projects to address high cross intersections or corridors, three speed management projects, and 17 new signalized crossings or intersections, we'll see that work ramp up immensely in 2024 as they get into the meat of the 2020 spending, but upcoming projects include stassney lane at south first, us 183 and Burleson and fm 969 mlk at regency. And finally bikeways, our bikeways team installed more than 15 miles of protected bike [2:09:38 PM] than 15 miles of protected bike lanes citywide in 2023, they have a very ambitious, forecast for the upcoming year, which includes bikeways, work on Cameron road, Rutland drive, rundberg, manchaca and many others. And finally, this is my plug for our coming soon, since 2016, with the advent of these local mobility programs, we have completed thousands, literally thousands of projects citywide. So we're working on an interactive map to be able to highlight and demonstrate just the extent and depth of that work. These are mostly smaller scale projects that are community uses daily to get kids to school, walk to the bus stop, or just safely cross the street. So our talented staff back at tpw are working on this comprehensive map and hope to be back later this year to roll that out to all the council offices as well as the community to show where we've been, for the past eight years. And [2:10:38 PM] the past eight years. And finally, here is the link where you can find the mobility annual plan, there's buttons to view a report as well as, of course, the interactive project map. So that's all I have. I'd be happy to answer any questions. >> All right. We'll open it up to questions. I see people shaking their head. That means it was a very thorough presentation. Ann council member harper-madison. Do you have any questions? Just want to make sure I didn't miss you. >> Thank you. Chair, I appreciate the offer. No, I'm just I'm impressed, that that selfishly, that map was very d1. Lovely. So >> That is great. I don't even know that I have questions I really appreciate having this updated map. I know if you go online, you can actually click on your neighborhood and turn on and off different layers and really understand what is a safe route to school. What's a sidewalk bike lane? You know, all these all these amazing levels of infrastructure that [2:11:38 PM] levels of infrastructure that our our staff is working very hard on every day. On that note, I think we're done. Congratulations. I think that was the only presentation we've never had any questions on. All right. >> Thank you. >> On that note, before we adjourn, I want to give a quick thank you to all of the participants in nato. That is the national association of city transportation officials. I was fortunate to be able to attend in early may, was in Miami Dade this year, and I took a couple of my team members. We had a number of other city staff that was able to attend, and a few of them were able to give presentations, one of which was on Dutch style bike network buildout, transportation priority enhancements, the mutcd, which is the national level of transit criteria manual, if you will, we have one at the local level, but we also monitor, you know, what does nato think is good transportation infrastructure, discussions around autonomous vehicles. There was one about dots and how different states and the national dot are kind of [2:12:39 PM] and the national dot are kind of working in collaboration with municipalities and counties and statewide officials to be able to improve bicycle infrastructure. So if anyone ever is interested in going, it's a great annual event that moves around the country year to year to really understand how are people designing for cities? How are people making spaces safe for pedestrians, cyclists, people using wheelchairs? Folks pushing strollers, using the bus, even driving a car? And you know, I know that may is bike month and we get really excited about this infrastructure. But the truth is, we have to make sure that the roads and our urban trails are safe for everybody that's using them, regardless of the transportation that they're choosing. In that moment. So that takes us to the last item, which is tentative so far. But in July, we will probably be taking up the street impact fee study update. This is an initiative that's only a couple of years old, but it is designed around how you leverage new development with making sure that we have the dollars to, put in better infrastructure that's [2:13:41 PM] in better infrastructure that's missing in certain neighborhoods. So there's different service areas, there's different levels of engagement that go with new development to make sure that we have the transit improvements that are needed in those areas. In August, we hope to do a back to school special and talk about air quality and transportation, Ann and potentially fleet electrification updates. We'd love to have the city participate, as well as our partners with aid or other school districts and capmetro, because there's a lot of different initiatives around fleet electrification and then we have other initiatives down the pipeline, including shoal creek, Barton springs road, vision zero pilot. There's some really good information that staff has put out for the public to review. With the six month pilot program and the community feedback that came from that, the highest level to note that I've seen coming out of this, the talking points that are being circulated is that, this program was designed after a terrible collision. A terrible wreck happened on Barton springs in front of a food truck, and a lot of people got injured. So [2:14:42 PM] lot of people got injured. So the vision zero program put this together. And now there have only actually been two collisions in that area since the six month pilot happened. And one of which was actually a vehicle parked in the bike lane. So it's a very pertinent conversation for us to be tackling in may. So we're going to take that item up and see how staff is working on those those responses and how they're taking that feedback in for consideration. We may also talk about construction partnership program, some community visions for urban trails, connectivity like the big loop or great springs trail, congress avenue, maybe one of our conversations and we've got a whole other slew of things, including project connect, I-35, the future of itod. Now that city council has approved those amendments, and a whole long other slew. So feel free to daylight. Any more initiatives you want us to add into the list? Even though it's quite long at this point, you can also email us or send us that information. >> Vice chair qadri future items, right? [2:15:43 PM] items, right? >> Yes. >> Future items, love. Would love to revisit micromobility, sometime in October. >> I love that I know that you're following that very closely as the downtown and UT representative, and trying to make sure that we've got the right balance of community needs being addressed in those areas. Any other topics we want to address at this time? You can always email us. No problem on that. So again, happy bike month . We love bike month being the month of may and happy 25th anniversary to the austin-bergstrom international airport. And on that note, we are adjourned at 2:16 P.M.