Mobility Committee (MOBC) Meeting Transcript – 5/15/2025 Title: ATXN-1 (24hr) Channel: 1 - ATXN-1 Recorded On: 5/15/2025 6:00:00AM Original Air Date: 5/15/2025 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. [1:03:10 PM] Welcome, everybody. It is may 15th, 2025 and this is the mobility committee. I will call this meeting to order at 1:03 P.M. We are located here in Austin city hall. I am joined by everybody on the committee. I've got council member, Laine, council member vela vice chair qadri here in person. We have council member harper-madison joining remotely. So welcome to everyone. Do we have anyone that signed up for public communication? No speakers. Okay. Item number one will be to approve the minutes of the mobility committee meeting of April 17th, 2025. Do we have a motion? Moved by council member vela and seconded by vice chair qadri. All in favor of approving the minutes, say I. I. It is unanimous. Our next item will be number two. The update from the urban transportation commission meeting from may 6th, 2025. And we have chair Summers with us [1:04:11 PM] we have chair Summers with us today. Hello. Hello. >> Can you hear me? >> Yes. You're great. >> Great. Thank you so much, as always, for the opportunity to share about the may utc meeting. So just want to give you very, very brief overview of the items that we had. We had item about the equitable transit oriented development. We had two right of way vacations. And then we had updates on the director's updates for the director's roles on both the residential permit parking and the shared micro mobility program, the only substantive recommendation that we had relates to the equitable transit oriented development. The presentation that the utc did receive related to both the north Lamar and south congress transit center station area plan. Both the vision plan and the related future land use update map. And so we and then we also received wider [1:05:13 PM] we also received wider presentation about phase two, which is coming up later this year, as well as some of the other updates, for example, capmetro looking at the crestview station area. So we heard quite a few different updates in that presentation. The recommendation that we did pass relates to the north Lamar transit center and south congress transit center station area plans. We recommend it in light of utc, really wanting maximizing ridership and meeting the goals of the Austin strategic mobility plan. We really recommend it for approval of these vision plans and the related floms, and we also recommended in favor of the amendments that were proposed by the planning commission. So that's short and sweet. What we did, we did recommend approval of both of the right of way vacations. We ended up not taking action on the director rules for residential permit parking or shared micro mobility. We do anticipate a taking up in the June meeting, residential permit parking and [1:06:13 PM] residential permit parking and anticipate a recommendation on that. I'm not certain that we will do that for shared micro mobility, but I do think we gave the staff a really direct and helpful, nuanced verbal feedback in our meeting that they can take with them into their process. So that's really all I had. >> Fantastic. Thank you. And I know that there has been a public comment period for the residential permit parking program that has closed, and then there will be a report issued later and another chance for comments. So I think that timeline works out really well with how the department is trying to schedule this out. >> Yeah, I think the draft rules were delayed a bit. I think they published Monday and so they'll be sort of a comment period. So they did the feedback and then there'll be a public comment period on the draft, which we can make by our next utc meeting. So that'll be great. So encourage everyone to check out those draft rules. >> Fantastic. Thanks for keeping an eye on that. We'll make sure to put that on our calendars as well. Are there any other questions from committee [1:07:14 PM] questions from committee members? It does not appear so. Thank you so much, chair Summers. >> Of course, as always. >> That will take us to item number three, a briefing on the status of the 2012 through 2020 mobility bonds. And we have Anna martin, assistant director of tpw, and Eric Bailey. And Eric is the assistant director of capital delivery services. So thank you both for being here today. >> Thank you. Thank you for the invitation. Okay. We'll just dive right in and keep this agenda moving. Okay. So between Eric and I today we are going to cover just an overview of the bonds we've had voted on since 2012. Share some recent highlights. Talk about spent or obligated funds versus what's available. We'll talk a little bit about projects and outcomes and then touch at the end on [1:08:14 PM] and then touch at the end on what we're thinking for 2026, bond development and where we are in that process. Okay, so a quick overview. Going back to 2016. That was our our largest mobility bond really in city history, dedicated 720 million into three categories regional corridors and local mobility, followed by a smaller mobility bond in 2018 160 million. And that focused on safety bridges as well as capital renewal. And then most recently, in 2020, we had a $460 million mobility bond focused on safety and active transportation. So it's always fun to be the one that gets to talk about recent highlights. We've had a lot of great work going on in the field, so I'll just share a few photos and project highlights. We opened the pleasant valley and Terry roundabout just last month with a ribbon cutting. That's been a great partnership of vision [1:09:15 PM] great partnership of vision zero, bikeways and transit work. We're making outstanding progress on the longhorn dam bridge. That was a 2020 project first named in the 2020 bond. We were able to start construction last year. As already, if you go out there, it's really taking shape and looking good and we hope to open that to the public next year. We recently constructed a an extension to the violet crown trail to connect the section just north of mopac down to William canyon, along the loop one frontage road that took partnership with txdot, but that is now open and being used. Up in northwest Austin. We did a safe routes to school program of projects at purple sage elementary. There are new pedestrian, bikeway and crossing improvements on three streets that the kids used to bike to school, and that that photo up there is from last week, I believe we did a bike to school event for the kiddos and really well attended and they were excited. On Mcneil drive, we leveraged grant funding to [1:10:19 PM] we leveraged grant funding to improve street safety lighting on Mcneil between us 23 and palmer Laine recently completed construction on that. >> As we as we hand off here. Let's see. Okay, so to build on highlights that Anna mentioned, you can see on the left a speed management and crosswalk installed on mill race drive. In the center is a connection to the Bergstrom spur trail near Vincent drive, and on the right is the installation of a new shared use path along the west side of airport boulevard from 51st to 45th. You know, these are just a few examples of recently completed mobility bond projects. There's many more projects that are in the works, either in design, construction or scheduled to be delivered soon. So moving on to the bond program overview. This is the 2012 mobility bond. As you can see, all the programs are complete with the exception of the 2012 corridors bucket. This is due to some issues [1:11:19 PM] is due to some issues encountered on the 51st street complete streets project, which goes from I-35 to Berkman around the Mueller neighborhood. The stormwater design had to be redone due to the code required implementation of the atlas 14 stormwater model. This led to some, you know, increased flow volumes and additional design work that unfortunately, the designer was unable to incorporate into the design and was subsequently subsequently terminated due to poor performance. So we had to get a new designer on board to complete the project. We're currently in the final design phase, with construction scheduled to begin in 2026. For the 2016 mobility bond. Several of the programmatic buckets are complete, including vision zero, bikeways, sidewalks, urban trails, substandard streets, and safe routes to school. The three buckets with unobligated funding are the regional mobility, where the remaining funds are committed for campo grant matches on the west rundberg and lakeline boulevard projects when they go to construction. The [1:12:19 PM] they go to construction. The corridor program, which currently has $75 million in construction projects that are currently advertising, as well as several large projects that are expected to enter the bidding phase in 2025. Overall, the corridor program is expected to reach 90% spent in 2027. And then finally we have the capital renewal bucket, which has one remaining project, which is the roadway relocation of Falwell Laine from sh 130 to the Austin energy sand hill energy plant and the Austin water south Austin regional wastewater treatment plant. This project is currently advertising for construction bids. >> Okay, okay, moving on to 2028. Again, several of these buckets have been completed and spent. That would be signals and technology sidewalks as well as neighborhood partnering. We have a little bit of remaining dollars in street reconstruction that's just being held for contingency on various projects [1:13:19 PM] contingency on various projects that are in construction. For the vision zero bucket, we have 1.1 million remaining. Again, holding that for contingency as we progress on the pierce Laine lighting project. Urban trails again, that those funds were earmarked for Bergstrom spurred west and that is in design right now. And finally, the largest outstanding project from 2018. There was originally 50 million set aside for replacement of the redbud bridge project. To date, they are nearing. I guess the team is at 100% design ready for permitting, but the engineers estimate well exceeds the 50 million that we have available. So the team is going back and doing some value engineering to see what we can see, what we can trim, or other construction methods we could use to bring that more into into the dollars that we have. So we're going through that exercise right now and can report back on that shortly. And then finally moving [1:14:19 PM] shortly. And then finally moving to 2020. As a reminder, we had a we also had a contract with the voters for the 2020 mobility bond. The contract said that we would deliver in six years, but the six years would start with the construction of the first project. The first project began construction in March of 2022, but we are exceeding expectations. So the six years from then would roughly be early 2028. But we were cranking up our spending and we were likely to be done with the majority of this by 2027. The largest outstanding balances, I'll say, would be in the capital. The large capital improvements bucket. We show 40 million obligated, 62 million available. There were five named projects in that bucket, and we've been progressing through design on all of them. And so allocated to be spent with that funds are the pleasant valley roadway [1:15:21 PM] pleasant valley roadway extension project, a first phase for congress avenue urban design initiative. And then we used 8 million of our local dollars as a match to obtain a $32 million construction grant for Barton springs road bridge. So, again, the funding there allocated to named projects and moving forward, substandard streets. I'd also like to point out there were two projects in that category Ross road and Johnny Morris road. We've awarded the construction contract for Ross road doing a groundbreaking, I believe, this month. And so that project will progress. Johnny Morris is in about 60% design will likely need to be creative in funding that project to get it to construction with what we have left in the substandard street bucket. But we're looking at all options. The other local mobility programs progressing as planned, specifically in vision [1:16:21 PM] planned, specifically in vision zero. We have numerous projects in the design phase. We've been successful leveraging bond dollars for a safe streets for all grant to bring more money back to the city to go further, and we have upcoming projects on Cameron road and dessau, parker Laine south of east Riverside, and numerous high crash intersections around town in partnership with txdot. So overall, we're about 58% obligated or spent, 42% planned or available, depending on the terminology, but all committed to projects that are progressing through design. Okay, so ptp has been really putting some effort into mapping and publicizing, you know, just the magnitude of work that we've been able to accomplish over the last ten years with mobility bonds. Just as some key stats, we've built [1:17:23 PM] as some key stats, we've built 181 miles of new sidewalk. We've had vision zero improvements at over 20 intersections that are showing a 22% reduction in fatal and serious crashes. We've addressed barriers at 120 schools as part of the safe routes to school program, made over 500 pedestrian crossing improvements. Adding up. It's a thousand over a thousand projects citywide, really touching all corners of all districts. So all in all, we are delivering safer crossings and intersections, faster bus service, slower neighborhood streets, more comfortable bikeways, and sections of urban trail to connect people to destinations and nature. So yeah, really proud of the work we've done, and we have a couple of strong years ahead of us to continue this work with the bond funding we have. >> All right. I'll take it back here. Finally, you know, a quick [1:18:24 PM] here. Finally, you know, a quick update on bond development for the 2026 bond capital delivery services is working with all the departments that deliver bond products for the city, including tpw. And as part of convening these departments, we've worked to develop guiding principles, technical criteria and scoring matrices based on the citywide strategic plan as well as the relevant department wide department specific planning documents. From there, each asset owner department developed their own technical criteria and scoring matrix based on the departmental needs and expertise, and then project charters will be used to further develop and prioritize those projects. Currently, we're working with departments to present guiding principles, technical criteria and the scoring matrices to boards and commissions. Tpid recently presented their criteria and matrix to this committee. This slide shows the upcoming bond election task force meeting schedule, which includes departmental presentations on current bond status, technical criteria and the scoring matrix. As I mentioned, these presentations will roll through to June of 2025 with the initial [1:19:25 PM] to June of 2025 with the initial report to council and then staff presenting the rank needs assessment based on the technical scoring in July. Not shown in this graphic is the community outreach, which will take place throughout the summer of 2025, and then incorporation of those comments through the fall of 2025, returning subsequently to boards and commissions with the final staff recommendation that incorporates the public input and the recommendation of the btif to council in the spring of 2026, and council calling for a bond election in the summer of 2026. With that, I will take any questions. There we go. >> Well, that's a fantastic list. I'm glad to see over a thousand projects in the map that have been delivered in the past ten years. That's amazing. I know there's a lot of focus on the ones that might be a little bit more behind schedule, but what it seems to be happening is that there's smaller projects that are more in neighborhoods and things like that, that are creating crosswalks and sidewalks and safe routes to [1:20:25 PM] sidewalks and safe routes to school. It's the ones that are bigger, like our bridges and our, you know, more programs that are a little bit more behind the timeline. The capital delivery services program is relatively new, so I think someone must have identified that along the way to say, how do we help our our bigger projects, the projects that sometimes take ten years to find all of the dollars to make sure you've got the schematics right and the funding right, to make sure that we can actually build those programs on the timeline that people are expecting. Are there questions? I think I see vice chair qadri does. I'll have a few more, but I want to open it up to our vice chair. I see council member harper- madison will will go next. Great. Council member Laine great. >> Thank you, chair, and appreciate the presentation. Just just have a few quick set of questions. You know, I think one thing that we've seen and I've definitely seen during my time on council is when the cost often reduces the overall vision of a project. I know on page five, you had the airport [1:21:27 PM] five, you had the airport boulevard at 51st street. And I remember initially there was a vision of having trees along that area. And you know, from what I see there, there are no trees. So I guess my first question to kind of kick it off are, what are the challenges the city faces when trying to implement the vision versus what we end up constructing in the end? >> Yeah, I mean, I'll start with that one. I can speak specifically to the airport boulevard section that was part of the 2016 corridor program, which as we got into it after the bond election, when we went into it, we didn't have any kind of scope or cost estimates, really. We had kind of a broad estimate. And as we developed the, you know, initial recommendations and things, the estimated cost expanded about 900, 900 million, almost $1 billion. In terms of what would it take to actually design and install what we would like to do there? Obviously, with $460 million, you can install $900 million worth of work. So what we've done then is in 2023, the corridor office came to capitol [1:22:31 PM] corridor office came to capitol delivery services, and we sort of incorporated that in there. And it was coming to a point where the designs were reaching completion, and we didn't have enough money to do all the work. So we had to pivot a little bit. And airport airport boulevard is actually a great example of that. We're like, okay, what can we do for the money that we have that's not going to require it to be then ripped out at some future date if we come across and get additional funds. So what we decided to really prioritize is the pedestrian safety and circulation in those areas. So things like the shared use path there where there was no sidewalk on that side of the street. If you've ever been down airport boulevard on the west side, there's two bus stops that are just connected by dirt, really. And so what we've been doing is projcts like this, we're like, okay, now people can get to the bus stops and they're able to access those larger mobility facilities. Yeah, it's not the ultimate build out. It's not at the end of the day, what we really want it to look like, but we haven't excluded anything from happening in the future. When funds become available, we're really addressing those pedestrian circulation and safety issues first as a priority. And then when the funding is available, we can come back and do additional work [1:23:32 PM] come back and do additional work there to. >> Thank you. And I guess continuing on with that, could phasing out or having phasing of these larger projects, I guess, be a better way to achieve the vision that we have? >> Yes. >> That was a quick answer. Great. And then and then I just and then, you know, still related to that. Our project cost, normally inclusive of all our project needs project. >> Well so I mean obviously when you do a bond program. >> Did the question make sense. >> Sorry I think so. Let me answer and then you can expand. >> On it. Yeah I mean yeah like like for example like the such as the bike lanes we envisioned and the green infrastructure that we might need. >> Yeah. And so, you know, when you're planning for a bond project, especially in 2016, then you have extenuating circumstances like covid and all the stuff that's happened in the last, you know, nine years. It obviously changes your cost estimate quite a bit from what you went into the program thinking. So there's some adaptation there. But then, you [1:24:32 PM] adaptation there. But then, you know, in terms of, you know, implementing council's policies and the strategic mobility plan and things like that, those are, you know, really our guiding principles as we move forward and we do our best to strive to implement all of that stuff as best we can with the funding that we have available. So I'm not sure if that answered your question necessarily. >> That answers the question. And then my last question, when we look at when we estimate the cost of a quarter per project, do we build any expected increase in construction costs into that? Yes. Okay. Yeah. There you go. Another another quick answer. >> Another easy question. >> Thank you. >> We like a quick yes around here I think council member harper-madison was next. >> Thank you chair I appreciate it. And I think you really touched on at least the comment that I wanted to make. It really is reassuring to see so many of these projects up and moving and even, you know, to be honest, I mean, it's I like to hear you guys speak practically. You said it's not ideal, right? But it's where we're at. And so that leads me into the one question [1:25:32 PM] leads me into the one question that I do have. It's not ideal that we've only accomplished 60% of the design towards Johnny Morris. And I think during the course of the presentation, you did a really great job of, you know, it. It didn't sound like doom, but it did sound like need. It sounded like there's going to be a need for funding. So what I extracted from your commentary was two things. So when we're talking about that missing funding, as we're having similar conversations about adjacent infrastructure projects and investments, and frankly, what optimistically is some really interesting and potentially very unique new funding mechanisms and opportunities, I think it will be pretty critical to have a firm baseline on what those dollars that we need look like. And so can you speak to that, the gap there, one, you know, to make up the to get to the 100% at the design phase. And then, you know, from there any additional funding to see [1:26:33 PM] additional funding to see completed execution of the initiative. What do those numbers tentatively look like? >> Let me so I'll say currently we are at about 60% design. We have the funding to get us to 100%. >> And design. >> Yeah. By the by next summer I hope to be at 100% design and maybe have a permit in hand ready to go. I'll probably very soon be able to tell you what the funding gap is. And then we're going to be very creative looking at solutions. We have street impact fee. We can look at developer participation. There's a there's a number of things future grants. But really being at that 100%, having a permit really makes all of those options very, very viable because everyone will be very ready to go. >> Well, I really appreciate that. And, you know, as as always, in the spirit of maximizing the use of our finite resources, I can't help but, you know, have my spidey sense, you [1:27:34 PM] know, have my spidey sense, you know, the opportunity for some integration in our efforts moving forward. And so it'd be great to just plan to have a real deep dive discussion about all things northeast planning district and how, you know, considerations with adjacent assets like a Johnny Morris that is technically in the northeast planning district be discussed comprehensively so that we don't miss any opportunities to make projects complement one another and then the other. I think you might have answered the other half of that question. You said it looks like the timeline for the completion on design is next summer or this summer. >> I will say in 2026. Yep. It will also be part of it will also be part of our 20 as we're talking 2026 bond development. Any of these sort of incomplete or almost ready projects will certainly be in consideration to be on that list as well. >> Thank you. I appreciate that [1:28:35 PM] >> Thank you. I appreciate that very much. This is a great presentation, and I appreciate the answers to those questions, because it helps to inform some of the other questions I have moving forward about adjacent projects with similar considerations. Thanks, chair. >> Thank you. I'll kick it over to council member Laine. >> I just want to thank the entire department and all the staff for the time and care that you've put into this presentation, and also the questions and discussions that we've been having offline. So helpful for me to get more of my arms around what has happened in the last ten years as we move into forward thinking discussions, I, I will ask if there is any way in these presentations we could begin to include district six. It would be like it crops off almost where district six begins, and for a ten year look, just to have that visual. Super helpful and or a source doc so that a [1:29:36 PM] and or a source doc so that a link at the bottom or something to make it easier for us to look for it. If we're not seeing it, I would. That would be fantastic. I really appreciate it. And other than that, I'll continue the conversations we've been having offline. Thank you. >> I appreciate that. I have a question, because I think that these these charts are so helpful in seeing how much the spend down has actually been accomplished for each of these bonds. What would your perspective be for programing and timeline, if any dollars were to be re-appropriated out of previously committed voter approved bonds? Like, what would we be set back to 2026? Or would we be set back to further? Would it take even longer to come up with a new number to figure out how to solve some of these problems? >> Well, obviously, I mean, when you take funding away from a project, obviously that it sort of stops that project in its tracks. There are options where we have programed construction funding. I mean, there's a plan [1:30:36 PM] funding. I mean, there's a plan for spending all the money, right? But if you say, okay, we're only going to proceed through design and then that's going to be the end of the project, and we're going to roll the construction part into a future bond. Election would be an option to do that. I think anytime you talk about, you know, authorizing funding or anything, it's a very, a very challenging conversation that, you know, takes a lot of planning and a lot more information and kind of specifics about specific projects and things like that, that would each need to be handled almost individually and evaluated that way. >> Okay. Thank you. I've, I've noticed along the years it seems like if a bond says we're only going to take it to, you know, a certain level, we're going to get to preliminary engineering or we're going to get it to one of these, you know, base level elementary levels of trying to plan a project. It seems. Okay, well, let's start building the beginnings of a schematic. But by the time you're trying to go to bid and putting that out into a contractor's database of what is it going to take to bid this project, how are we going to be able to supply all the materials and the labor power to be able [1:31:37 PM] and the labor power to be able to build this and to. Vice chair qadri point, a lot of these contracts do include year over year pay, wage increases for the people who are working on the project, especially when you get into engineering, you're going to say that same engineer's time is going to cost more. As we get down, down the timeline. So I'm concerned. I haven't even heard about, you know, this, what was the word D accessioning bonds, D committing bonds, decommissioning. >> D authorization. >> D authorization. I just learned that about two weeks ago that that was even a viable option. And I would argue that it's not because I think when our voters go to the ballot box and they say, I believe in this program, and I see things in it for myself and my neighborhood and for the schools that we have in the city of Austin, limits that. It's really important to make sure that we're committing to those and that we're going to keep them in the plan and we're going to commit those dollars. We all know the timeline, and the cost only increases as we [1:32:37 PM] the cost only increases as we push our projects further and further down the road until we get to a point where they can't be built at all. And I think that's a place where I, as a city leader, never want to be in. And I'm sure a lot of city staff also never wants to be in that position. So I want to make sure that that's not a pathway that we're pursuing and one that we travel down very far. I think that's all for my questions. I did want to plug that. The mobility annual plan lives and breathes online, and is a great resource for folks that want to see how all of these programs are implemented in real time, and they can zero in on their neighborhood and see what kind of improvements are coming. But it's called the mobility annual plan. It's very creatively named map. If you need a shorter way to remember that. Council member vela, do you have any questions or thoughts at the end? >> I do, thank you so much, chair. Just wanted to get a little more detail on on the 51st street project and where that is. Again, I know we've talked about it previously and there's been a number of [1:33:38 PM] there's been a number of problems. I know the there's been a change in the contractor and whatnot because of performance issues, but where are we and what is the current kind of scope and timeline on the 51st street project? >> Yeah, it's currently in in the final design phases. We're looking to wrap that up here, end of the calendar year, and the scope on it is, you know, the complete streets ideal. So it's, you know, shared use path and bikeways and things on both sides of the street all the way from 35 to, to Berkman. >> To Berkman. And would that include the median? >> I think so, yeah. >> All right. A median. Entries and entries and great. And is that project funded. >> It is funded. >> Yes. Okay. So the $2,012 will ultimately work through design and construction and whatnot. >> They've been identified to complete design. It's probably going to be a little bit short for construction. But as Anna mentioned that there are other funding sources that we can use to close that gap and make that project happen. [1:34:39 PM] project happen. >> Great, great. The. More of a comment and followed by a question, it sure looks like we've been tearing through that sidewalk and urban trails money. I mean, I know other you know, again, I don't want to focus on the negative. I know some of the larger projects have been problematic and we're working through that. But I mean, there was 0% on on multiple and we sure seem to be cranking out sidewalks at a pretty good clip. I understand that we're basically out of sidewalk capital money, or where are we in terms of what we have in the in the bank account for sidewalks? >> Thanks for the question. We yeah, our sidewalk team has, you know, about 25 crews running around town at any given time. They they are crazy efficient, which is wonderful to see. We just did a detailed look at it internally. And that program is solvent through fiscal year 27. There's a variety of sources that fund sidewalks outside of bond funding. And so those crews [1:35:40 PM] bond funding. And so those crews are going to are going to stay busy for the foreseeable future. >> Okay. And in terms of urban trails, kind of same kind of thought in question, are we having the same success on urban trails as we are on on sidewalks? >> Urban trails are more complicated just based on where they usually exist, which is an environmentally sensitive areas and parks. So the design process is much longer than just putting a construction crew out there to build a sidewalk. But we have many just a magnitude of projects in design that will be slowly be released to construction as we're able to get a permit. >> Great. And in terms of the capital dollars for construction of the urban trails projects currently under design, where are we on on those totals? >> We have about $80 million worth of trails in design right now. >> Okay. And do we have capital money to build those trails? >> Not all of it. Not all of it, but a good portion. >> All right, well, just a [1:36:41 PM] >> All right, well, just a comment. I again, I know we have a substantial amount of money still on the on the corridors. And again, y'all went into Johnny Morris north Lamar. There's multiple other corridors that are pending. I again thinking about the upcoming 26 bond sidewalks and urban trails just sure seem I mean, we know how to do that. We're really good and efficient at doing that. Again, we have that $80 million worth of urban trails under design. I mean, I would like to fund the construction of all those urban trails in the and those are just extremely popular, both for pedestrians and bicyclists. You know, they're kind of naturally shaded, usually because they're in the creeks or they're going through a park. You know, again, I completely appreciate the flex poles and the, you know, the stuff that we're doing on the roadway. But the experience of, I think biking or walking in a, in a, in a creek along an urban trail is, generally speaking, a [1:37:42 PM] trail is, generally speaking, a far superior experience. People love that. So just as a as a general comment, I think in terms of active transportation, you know, your your sidewalks, your urban trails, I would love to see a good, healthy component of that in the 2026 bond so we can continue cranking those out into the into the, the near future. And on that note, the comment on the airport boulevard, the portion from north of 290 to Lamar is great. That that I think was an excellent job. And in particular the reconstruction of the street, the limiting of the entrances and exits to the different kind of shopping centers. It y'all did a really good job on that portion of airport boulevard. I think it's a much safer, better street for all involved. Vehicles included. And I understand that as we've [1:38:44 PM] And I understand that as we've kind of gone, gone south on airport there, we're, we're we're starting to, to value engineer and kind of, you know, work with what we got. But that I will say that trail on the, on the west side of airport, it even though it it's just there it doesn't have kind of trees or shading. But there's a, there's a number of the metro rail runs right through there and there are a number of kind of shorter trees along the rail which do actually shade you in the afternoon sun when you're walking along that. So it's actually a pretty decent quarter. And then on the other side of airport, the sidewalk and air quotes on the sidewalk on the eastern side of airport really just runs through parking lots into shopping centers and is not it's a dangerous. There's often vehicles parked in the in the right of way. So it just in every way, shape and form, that's a really well-received corridor there on airport. How far down are we going to go on airport with the with the trail [1:39:46 PM] airport with the with the trail and the sidewalk construction there? >> Yeah. The current contract we have is going to go all the way to 45th street, and then we're sort of taking a break due to the I-35 reconstruction things. And then we're going to pick up a similar program on the east side of I-35, heading eventually all the way down to past mlk to 183. So similar kind of look, that's one of the contracts that's currently being advertised, is delivering those improvements for that whole stretch there. >> Great, great. And then again, just a final kind of thought and comment on the 26 bond. If we are going to do roadways again, thinking about the transportation portion of the bond, I would be supportive of funding the gaps in projects that we have already been approved. Again, thinking about, from my perspective and my district's perspective, very much north Lamar. But again, Johnny Moore's road comes to [1:40:47 PM] Johnny Moore's road comes to mind. The redbud bridge that that, you know, there's different projects that we've committed to turns out to be more expensive, more complex than we thought. And if we have to go back and say, hey, we need a little bit more, I would I would be supportive of that because as the chair mentioned, I do want to make sure and complete the projects that have been presented and voted on and approved. I do think we have to we have to get that done. So, but I appreciate the presentation and I share the chair's comments that very well put together and very well presented from from the trying to understand the different tranches of the of the bond. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. And I'm also a huge fan of urban trails and sidewalks, not just because of the impact to the folks who need them, but because of how successful the delivery of those projects has been. I think it's been a great case study of really being able to get people from point a to point B effectively. Council member Laine do you have one more? >> Yes, yes. So I, I just wanted to react. So I share your [1:41:49 PM] to react. So I share your concern over sidewalks and urban trails and the certainly of great importance in my district to have more safe ways for people to get around on foot and bike and to have these connections that, you know, are really significant gaps. However, I do want to push back on the idea of focusing our next bond on gaps in the previous bonds, because. A lot of much needed work hasn't been accounted for in these past bonds in my district. I mean, out of all these bonds that we just looked at, about 3% has gone in district six. So if we continue to push forward the things that we haven't finished and we've been focusing on, I'm just not it really gives me concern about whether we will ultimately find funding for some really significant safety issues that haven't been contemplated in these past bonds in my district. So sharing that. Thank you. [1:42:50 PM] you. >> I appreciate that perspective. I know, especially given the results of climate change that we've seen over the past few years, there may be some projects that are seeing cost overrun because of things like floodplain variations and things like that. But I do think if we're going to put a bond to the voters, we have to make sure that district six is on the map. And I know that there's a lot of work that I've had to do in district eight as well, to make sure that ample resources are coming in to all parts of the city. So we want to make sure everyone's getting what they need out of these bonds, and that everybody sees something in in a place that they connect with to make sure our city dollars are going to everybody. Are there any further questions on this item before we move to the next? I think that's the end of that item. Thank you. Thanks for being here. All right. The next item is number four briefing on the status of federal mobility grants. And we have Paige Warner, interim chief of staff for tpw. Welcome. Two [1:43:51 PM] of staff for tpw. Welcome. Two pages. >> Hello, chair and committee members. My name is Paige Warner. I'm our interim chief of staff at transportation and public works. Thank you so much for having me today. To talk a little bit about the status of the world of grants. So today for you, we have a one pager and plan to talk through what has happened since we last talked in February about federal grants. And February was a very uncertain time. We had recently learned that the majority of our federal grants were under review, and we would hear back within the 90 day period whether we could proceed. And unfortunately, today, we're not at that place of clarity that we wanted to be. So to talk a little bit about what's happened first, starting in January, we had received the unleashing American energy executive order, which had asked for any grant related to the inflation reduction act or the infrastructure investment and [1:44:52 PM] infrastructure investment and jobs act to be reviewed. That started on January 20th. So we are hoping to hear back by April 20th. That date has come and gone, and we have not received any official news yet. From there in March, we also received some guidance from the us department of transportation that is applicable to any grant without an executed agreement that they must undergo a compliance review, and that compliance review focuses on items like die like environmental initiatives, as well as bicycle lanes, which are particularly relevant for transportation and public works. Additionally, there was a letter sent from transportation secretary Duffy in April of this year which really talked about the legal obligations that municipalities have, especially as it relates to funding, calling out die as well as immigration. And this was more of a reminder as to how these [1:45:52 PM] of a reminder as to how these municipalities are supposed to comply with these different initiatives. Last but not least, at the end of April, we heard that there at the federal level, that the house was considering a budget reconciliation package that would affect our $105 million cap and stitch grant. And so that was heard and successfully passed from the committee. It still needs to be heard on the house floor as well as the senate floor. They're hoping to complete that within the next couple of weeks. And then we would have a final answer on that specific grant. And again, that is the $105 million cap and stitch grant taking a break from some of these events, I did want to really talk through some of those specific grants. If we go on to the second page, which looks like it is already pulled up, we have here the different discretionary grants that dpw has been awarded in recent years, and we have those [1:46:54 PM] years, and we have those highlighted that we consider to be at higher risk. And so that consists of a grant being awarded. But the grant agreement has not been signed. That includes the bridge investment program for Barton springs road bridge safe streets for all for 2024 and that neighborhood access and equity grant. That is the $105 million cap and stitch grant. Otherwise, you can see here we have different grants where the agreement has been signed, but the funding hasn't been obligated, or we do have funds that are obligated, and we consider those to be either moderate or low in terms of risk. Other than these, we are still actively seeking out grants, including those listed at the bottom. The pending discretionary grants. We do have two coming at the next council meeting to approve to apply for, including the txdot transportation alternatives set aside and the 2025 safe streets for all grant. So if we go back to the first page, I did want to [1:47:56 PM] to the first page, I did want to take a moment to talk about earmarks as well. These are different from grants. They are not included in discretionary grants. But we did here for 2025 that during the budget process, the option for our earmarks for this year were eliminated. And for that, we had submitted two northern walnut creek trail as well as the redline trail. So we're working with our intergovernmental relations office in order to apply and hopefully get some earmarks for fy 26. So where that leaves us is still waiting to hear more information, but we are actively working with our grow office as well as our contacts with usdot and. So with that, I'm glad to take any questions. I also have Erica with me today from igrow, who can talk for more of a citywide perspective. >> Thank you for the [1:48:58 PM] >> Thank you for the information. Do we have questions from the committee members? Council member vela. >> The 90 day pause and review time period that have those 90 days already come and gone? >> Yes, the 90 day period ended on April 20th. >> Okay. And but we there were no final decisions made then so that 90 days really didn't mean much. >> No, we haven't heard any official news. >> Okay. Got it. Thank you. >> All right. Any further questions? It appears you gave us all the information in the presentation that we needed. >> I'll take it. Thank you. >> Thank you. That takes us to our next item, which will be the briefing on cap metro bike share program expansion item number five. >> Good afternoon, committee [1:50:07 PM] >> Good afternoon, committee members. Thanks for having us out to talk about bike share today. My name is Mike Kimbrough. I'm the program manager for shared mobility services with transportation and public works. We're going to have three different presenters. I'll be kicking us off with the first few slides, but first off, look at the agenda quickly. First off, we'll talk about the bike share partnership between the city of Austin and capmetro. Discuss system overview a little bit. Briefly discuss ridership. We'll go into an upcoming August fare adjustment, and we'll go deep dive into bike share expansion. Talk about ridership, propensity, market typologies, 2025 expansion station locations. And finally, on to next steps. All right. First off, the bike share partnership. As you probably know, this year we entered a three year interlocal agreement between the city and capmetro metro. Some of the responsibilities for both parties. We will both contribute financially to the system, and [1:51:08 PM] financially to the system, and both parties will be responsible for monthly and annual reporting. Capmetro specific responsibilities will include ensuring grant funded activities, meet third party agreements. They'll be conducting branding, marketing and advertising. Manage the vendor contract with with our vendor software associated agreements there, and be responsible for operations, maintenance and planning. City side. We will be responsible for reimbursing capmetro for grant related expenses. We'll continue to own the physical assets so the stations and bikes and inventory will still belong to the city of Austin. We'll be responsible for design, permitting and construction, any kind of concrete pads or anything for new station installations, with the exception of stations that will be installed on capmetro right of way, anything that's co-located with bus stops and those sorts of things. And we'll continue to ensure access to bike share during special [1:52:09 PM] bike share during special events. Next up, system overview system wide as as you probably also are aware, we change vendors last year completely replaced the system, the bikes and stations with a 100% electric bicycle fleet that was all installed in 2024. We replaced the legacy system, meaning that we have 73 existing stations. The stations for operational purposes are solar powered, the kiosks themselves. But as we'll discuss a little bit further, because of the new electric bicycles, it's very important that the stations themselves be electrified. And right now we have one electrified station with one tantalizingly close to coming online. It should be hopefully very soon. And that will be a big project that we'll be taking on in earnest is electrifying more stations over the next few years, and access to the program. Writers are able to [1:53:10 PM] program. Writers are able to access the program via the capmetro app or the bikeshare app. All right. Ridership. Ridership has been increasing steadily since the since the switchover. People love e-bikes. Obviously, we've experienced our highest ridership day in the history of the system this Wednesday, not this Wednesday, March, this March 12th, which was a Wednesday during south by southwest. We broke 2000 trips in one day. The top performing station is the perry-castaneda library on UT campus that has seen over 30,000 trips so far this year, and the top performing stations overall are all within west campus and the UT adjacent stations. So it's wildly, wildly popular with UT students. And with that, I'll turn it over to Jacob to discuss the August fare adjustment and continue on. >> Thank you all. So the latest [1:54:10 PM] >> Thank you all. So the latest news on paying for our bike share system is capmetro is making an August fare adjustment. For context, we have not adjusted the fares since 2013. So with the new system requires a fare adjustment. So they are making that. And that will really provide for additional operations, maintenance and continued improvement of the system for users. So moving on, we're really going to start talking about expansion. So for ridership propensity, we're looking at areas where there can be high ridership. So taking into account existing transit ridership, high quality bikeway infrastructure, our existing membership and really modeling [1:55:10 PM] membership and really modeling that data to where there are high ridership opportunities, then looking at public need as areas where bike share is needed to access public facilities services serving our underserved residents and other. Particular needs. And then we really used those two maps to combine that data into a combined ridership and public need propensity map, which you can see on the slide. We also have that available if you want to get a little bit deeper, but we're really looking at central Austin and Nadia will continue that moving forward. >> Okay. Hi, I'm Nadia Barrera Ramirez with capmetro, and as Jacob mentioned, we did a study [1:56:12 PM] Jacob mentioned, we did a study of propensity and looking at where it makes the most sense to expand bike share this map is kind of hard to see. I apologize, but the core area is in red dotted lines and you can see the blue dots are our current system. And this is really where we have high density of bike ridership today where there's high density of stations, lots of residential uses. As you move out into the moderate market, though, we see kind of less disconnected bike facilities, but there's still a high need for placing bike share stations in this area. Now we really see the moderate market here as being those in which the tosa grant funds that the city was awarded last year, and potentially other grant opportunities would cover the capital costs of expansion in this area. So the moderate market is something we see that could happen in the next 5 or 10 years. And then following that is the emerging market, which you can see in the green line there. And the green line is really more of an aspirational. We see that beyond what we have the current capacity to fulfill with our capital investments. On [1:57:13 PM] with our capital investments. On the left hand side of the slide, you'll see that these are kind of the tenets of our expansion, the things we must think about before we expand. So of course, we need to make sure that we're connecting neighborhoods. We need to make sure that we have a balanced approach to expansion, that we're expanding, emanating out from the core area. This is really for operations and maintenance, so that we can keep operations and maintenance as sustainable as possible. And I'll talk more about that in a subsequent slide. Also, it's critical for us to connect to transit. So first and last mile connections are important to us. We want to make sure that we're placing these stations where it's easy to get on and off busses and trains. And then lastly, for sustainability purposes, we really want to prioritize these local electrified bike share stations. As Jacob mentioned, we have we have one of them on board and we have another one coming up. And so we're we want to prioritize doing that as much as possible. And you'll see that here. I won't do far bearing the lead okay. So challenges. So we [1:58:15 PM] okay. So challenges. So we transitioned to 100% e-bike system. So this means that all of the 400 plus bikes that we have are required to be charged in some way or another. And it's a very manual process of changing out the bike. Sorry. The batteries. And so that is our number one challenge today that in addition to balancing the bicycles, keeping them clean, etc. So that's that's been the thing that we're learning from the most right now. Additionally, trips start and end in the UT campus area, so making sure that there's enough docks for students to charge at those high turnover times and making sure that we're balancing bikes so that the bikes are in the right place at the right time. Also, we don't today have the vendor didn't provide standard details and specifications. So we're getting a consultant to develop those for us so that when we're looking to charge these stations or when we're looking to work with the developer or the parks department or whoever we're working to install these stations, they have detailed drawings that we can plug and play as we're moving forward [1:59:16 PM] play as we're moving forward with construction and permitting. And last, I'll just mention again that Austin energy is critical to the success of the program because of the need to plug these stations in and have the bikes charging as they're waiting. It's much more efficient for our operations. And so as many of those electric charging stations that we have will be much easier on our operations and maintenance. So this is a slide that just talks about those operation challenges. So, you know, our expenses are mostly vehicle maintenance. And having the vehicle, you know, electricity costs etc. And the city of course is helping us by partnering and doing all the design and permitting with Austin energy. So we're very grateful for that partnership. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to operate the system. And the way that we cover these operating expenses is through the bike share revenue that that Jacob mentioned, that our board approved last month. And also we have advertising revenue, which is we're hoping to see those [2:00:16 PM] is we're hoping to see those campaigns starting very soon in the coming days even. And then the remaining cost of operations is fueled by a contribution from the city for the next three years for $250,000 a year. And then capmetro covers all remaining operating costs. So given the three tenets that I talked about earlier, connecting neighborhoods, making sure that we're using emanating from the core and first and last mile connections, as well as sustainable electric charging stations. We have these ten stations that we're planning for 2025, and I'm just going to go over them, just, you know, to talk a little bit about why we've chosen these locations. So the first one is 12th at Rio grande. And this was that we a long time ago, we actually had a station here. But this is Rio grande and there was a gap in the network and it was the high need. And we're also thinking that there'll be a lot more students from ACC being able to use the system. Mainer at chestnut is a new rapid station, and it also has great bicycle [2:01:18 PM] and it also has great bicycle facilities. Seventh and pleasant valley is a new rapid station. There's also an HEB at that location. Webberville at Neil is ACC eastview, and there's also eastside memorial high school, and it's a rapid station. Cesar Chavez at pleasant valley is a new rapid station as well. And there's an easy connection to the proposed wishbone bridge that we talked about earlier. San Jacinto at eighth street is a rapid station, northwestern at webberville. This is kind of an infill station, but it is very close to the red line trail. Let's see, where am I at number eight? Rosewood avenue at chestnut is close to a housing development that was under construction. We had a station there before, so we'll be replacing that station 14th at Chacon was a private developer that is building the station pad for us. So we're working together on that project. And then manor at Leona is the last one that we got a grant from UT to install that station. So really building on partnerships, I also want to say all ten of these stations will be electric [2:02:18 PM] these stations will be electric bike share charging stations. So really pushing that priority with these stations. Additionally, we've been working with the rapid team for the last two years to ensure that the bike share stations will fit with the rapid stations that are identified here. The last one. >> So I'm going to get into our next steps. The most pertinent next one is to launch bike share advertising. That's something that was successful on the old system and really helps bring in revenue for the additional system to improve operations. We're working on designing, permitting and installing the ten expansion stations we mentioned in the previous slide. But also what we're going to be doing is retrofitting additional stations in the network. We know that if we can get 30% of our stations based on best practices from other cities electrified, that largely keeps the system [2:03:20 PM] that largely keeps the system topped up. So we're really working to target 30 to 50% of the system as being electrified over the course of the next five years. For our tosa grant, we are preparing roughly 20 stations, including those ten expansion stations, over the course of the next year to be electrified. So ten retrofit, ten expansion. The new fare structure goes into effect on August 1st. We are also launching a public ridership dashboard to launch in fall of 2025. We're also working on implementing bike share into our ride report, so you can show bike share in comparison with our micromobility shared mobility providers. And then we have an additional next step in 2028 to really look at operations and maintenance of [2:04:20 PM] operations and maintenance of the new system and see where we're at, and reevaluate that to base our agreement over the course of the next five, ten years. On actual operating costs of the system. And with that, we'll open it up for questions. >> All right. Do we have questions from committee members? Let's start with council member vela and then council member harper-madison. >> The new stations that are being the ten new stations that are under construction is set to come online in 2025. Those are will all be electrified. Correct. And when we say electrified, those are hardwired into the grid with a meter and all that kind of good stuff, right? >> Correct. The stations charge the bikes. Exactly. >> Prior to that, we only had one. >> Yeah. That one was installed at Barton springs road. And the second one that we're working on and imminently waiting for is at [2:05:20 PM] and imminently waiting for is at fifth and shady at the east side bus plaza. >> Okay. And the how many total with the 10 in 25, how many stations will we have total? >> 73 stations existing, plus the 10 in 2025 will be 83 by the end of the year. >> So ideally you want to get to, you know, 25, 30, 35 electrified stations. So you can kind of have a system that that maintains itself charged more or less. Great. Thank you very much. >> All right. Council member harper-madison. >> Yeah, thank you very much. I appreciate it. And, you know, selfishly, I really appreciate that presentation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but did I count like five d1 assets on those ten new stations? >> I have to verify and look at the map where d1 begins and ends. But we are there are there [2:06:21 PM] ends. But we are there are there are approximately eight on the east side of 35, eight new stations. >> And I think only two of those. I'm I'm wrestling with vice chair qadri over at. There's a lot of d1 love going on here, and I'm just not complaining to be clear. I'm just curious, you know, was there some specific initiative that this is in response to, to where we're getting this one, this much d1 love with this mobility option, or are we just recognizing some substantial gaps or like what what can we attribute this inordinate amount of d1 love to it? >> Well, it really was coordinating with the rapid stations. So it's the, you know, the rapid stations along the 808, 37 routes, the new rapid stations. >> And when you I'm sorry, you have to give me the opportunity to be able to duplicate or say thank you. So when you say in coordination with the rapid stations, that means who did what to produce, what is kind of what I'm asking if you could give me a little bit more? [2:07:22 PM] give me a little bit more? >> Sure. So when we, you know, when we originally started the design of the metro rapid project, there was a think, you know, we thought about we would like to have bike share incorporated with the design of these, of the footprint of the station. And so we planned ahead of time to incorporate bike share in the footprint. And so it was just always part of part of the plan as the, as the rapid stations were rolling out that they would have bike share either directly adjacent to them or within a walking distance of those new rapid assets. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate it. >> Council member Laine. >> Yes, I just have a quick question. So in the UT area with the bike balancing, I just wanted to ask if it's been considered or suggest if there might be an opportunity for a volunteer program or incentives along the lines of bike angels in New York City or something [2:08:22 PM] in New York City or something like that, to sort of reduce the staff cost. I'm just throwing that out there. >> We haven't talked about that per se. We do have a very good relationship with the university, and we have discussed things like potential places to charge batteries or other other opportunities, but I think that's a good one as well, having volunteers. >> I love that idea. I know we've talked internally with my team about the concept of how much staff power it takes to be able to reallocate bikes. You know, if you have an event going on, let's say it's on south congress and everybody's trying to drop their bikes off in one location. How do you maybe recruit some volunteers to say you'll get a discount on your next ride? If you take one and put it somewhere else? And so I think there might be some creative opportunities. I'll have to look into that bike angels. Is that what it was called? Look into that program and try to see what it is that could be useful to us. I see I see our first speaker coming back. Do you have thoughts on this? [2:09:24 PM] this? >> Yeah, we discussed it with the operations team a little bit where the system is so popular around UT campus. They they kind of rebalance themselves. They move around so quickly that that a lot of times you have open docks or bikes available to you. I think where the big operational challenges are the battery swapping, because they are so, so popular that they have to spend a lot of time replacing the batteries up there. So I think that's why UT is such a operational. I don't want to say burden, but you know, it's a it's a it's a big lift for them up there. So I think we have looked into it. But in discussing with the capmetro operations team, it feels like coming up with solutions for replacing batteries is more important than the rebalancing aspect of it. But it's a it's a great suggestion, though. That's a cool program. The bike angels program I like it. >> Yeah. Interesting. Well, that leads into another question that I had, which was what is the difference in infrastructure between a bike that has a battery and a bike that can be charged through the station? I know we've talked about the actual stations themselves. If they don't have electricity, the bikes have to be battery swaps [2:10:25 PM] bikes have to be battery swaps throughout the day. But if it is electrified, is it a different bike that gets stored there? Or can you talk me through some of those logistics? >> No, it's the same bikes. It's just like your your typical e-bike. It has a battery that currently obviously has to be replaced. One of the problems with the previous vendor was battery theft. The bikes were really, really easy to swap in the field, but that also made them really easy to steal the batteries from. You just simply had to unlock the battery, slide it out, slide it back in, and the bike could stay in the station. With the new bikes, they've eliminated that risk of theft, but they've also made it extremely more difficult to do from an operation standpoint. You have to remove the bike from the dock, turn it upside down, use a special tool to unlock a locking mechanism. Slide the battery out so the amount of batteries that they can change within a given hour is reduced dramatically. So. So yeah. So now that's the only way to keep them, you know, operational is to swap those batteries in the [2:11:27 PM] to swap those batteries in the field. So once we're able to electrify stations they can stay docked. And they will actually charge within the station. Wow. So bikes are the same. Stations are a little bit different okay. >> And all the bikes would be able to handle either one depending on what that looks like. And then I think my last question was going to be the payment methods. Are these operating off of debit or credit or pay as you go. Can you talk me through that conversation right now? >> Yeah, sure. >> So there is still pay as you go. We do not accept debit cards. We had some issues with, I think the way that the system was accepting those debit cards, that it permitted the prepaid cards. So we had some issues of theft within the first week of, of permitting debit cards. So we no longer accept debit cards. But yeah, those are the two options okay. >> I would so you can preload dollars into the system. Like I [2:12:28 PM] dollars into the system. Like I know with park atx, I think in this current iteration of it you can preload a card. That way you're just not worried about it. Or if you're a college student your parents can preload the card and you've got X amount of dollars. The issue that I'm trying to get at is there are some folks that either don't want to use credit card or don't qualify for credit card. That may be ideal users of these bicycles to get to and from work. And I'm just concerned we're we're eliminating a certain area of the population that really wants to use this infrastructure and just may not be able to do it. So you can preload through a debit card or not yet. >> Not yet. Yeah, you can buy a pass. You can buy a pay as you ride a day pass, a month pass, or an annual pass. But they all have to be purchased with a credit card. And then that allows you unlimited 30 minute trips. That pass will allow you unlimited. So except for pay as you go, pay as you go is just pay as you go. But you know, if [2:13:29 PM] pay as you go. But you know, if you buy a one day pass, you can have unlimited 30 minute trips or a month pass, unlimited 30 minute trips. >> Okay, let's keep talking about that. Just because I really think there's some folks that all of a sudden can't use the bike program, but maybe there's some technicalities we could try to sort through on, on the back end and, and see what can be done for that. And the last thing I'll ask is, did I hear bike share advertising? Is this something where there will be, you know, sponsorships to say you get to be the logo on the, on the bucket on the front of the bike or what is what is bike share advertising look like? >> It's exactly like like we like that and like what we've had in the past. I mean, I think we've had south by or even the city project connect, HEB other folks like that have bought either you can wrap the station itself or you can have a the assets themselves have advertising on them. Okay. >> Any further questions? Council member vela. >> And could you talk a little bit about the project where the developer is including the [2:14:31 PM] developer is including the station within the development, which address which location is that. >> 14th and Chacon? I think it's at the ivory. >> And could you just talk a little bit about how that came to be? >> Sure. I think they reached out to us and, and asked if there was opportunity there, and we talked about the dimensions required, and we acknowledged that it was, as I mentioned, a good infill station for us and that it kind of connected those gaps, and they were willing and able to do the electric work and provide the meter and, and provide the space that we needed. And so it was kind of just an easy partnership. I know we're doing similar work with a station at sixth and congress, where they are asking us to relocate the station. We're working together to electrify it and figure out how on a private development, how we can can share the responsibilities there. >> That's that's great, because in my office, we've talked a lot about trying to kind of [2:15:33 PM] about trying to kind of incorporate and looking at kind of the slew of public benefits that developers can provide and that kind of public transportation infrastructure, especially along major corridors, especially in strategic locations, can can really help out. And I would say that, I mean, generally speaking, we get a lot of requests. Again, you know, my I get a lot of folks from up north of 183 are like, you know, we want the bike share too. And, you know, even north loop and those areas. And again, I completely understand the operational considerations where you want to get there, but you've got to got to do it, you know, piece by piece until you get up there. But I mean, from the neighborhood perspective, I think from the development perspective as well, this is considered to be a benefit, you know, a positive, not just I think image, but also just the practical benefit for the folks that live there. So anyway, glad to hear about that and completely support that, that [2:16:33 PM] completely support that, that type of work. >> Yeah. As you mentioned, the ongoing challenges, operations and maintenance. So we I think we have two crews. So there's really just not the capacity to extend all the way up there yet. >> Yeah. Completely understand. Thank you all very much. >> Thank you. Any further questions I think that covers it. Thank you. Our next item is number six, the briefing from Austin transportation. >> Oh. >> Council member harper-madison. >> Sorry, it wasn't even a question so much as I was just going to say, briefly, piggybacking off of what council member vela was saying, I wanted to highlight, you know, you guys probably remember, but the ivory is a car less development. So with the exception of a couple of cars for the entire property that are shared by residents, you know, sort of a small shared fleet, it was certainly beneficial to everybody involved and mutually beneficial for them to be a part of the infrastructure component. And so to your point, council member [2:17:33 PM] to your point, council member vela, I wonder how many other opportunities for this sort of innovation around incentivizing pedestrian friendly multifamily development could also coincide with this sort of partnership? It certainly is a an inspirational, and I think there will be future opportunities that are similar. I just wanted to highlight that. Thank you chair. >> Really appreciate the comment and the information. Council member thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. Now we'll move on to the next presentation, which is the briefing of the Austin transportation public works department related to ongoing mobility programs and projects in the central Texas region, including construction and service updates. And that is a very long way of saying it's our monthly standing update on mobility projects. >> All right. Thank you, chair. Thank you, council members, for us being here and want to go quickly over some of the progress that we've been making on projects. You've heard a lot that this afternoon, but listening to the presentations [2:18:33 PM] listening to the presentations here this afternoon, one of the things that it it made just always brings back to me is like to deliver mobility projects here in Austin, in any city requires partnerships. And you saw here capital metro and tpw. But even in the grants and the number of agency partners we have, as well as the projects that Eric and Anna were talking about, all require some type of partnership to deliver. So I just wanted to highlight that. All right. First thing I wanted to start with is that we released TPD. TPD annual report back in April of this year. So covering all the things that we had done back in 2024. So definitely a lot of successes there and highlights, but made meaningful progress on a number of projects. And one of the things that our city, our city manager had said that really stuck out to us is and reminded us our work is never done. We get things done, but we just move on to the next thing and keep delivering these services [2:19:33 PM] keep delivering these services for our community. We do this in a way where safety is our top priority, and just about in everything that we do. Safety is a consideration, and you see that more directly in some projects than others. And I had mentioned it earlier, we've delivered over 20 safety projects, and we've seen on average, a 22, more than 20% decrease in crashes from that. And there's even some of those projects that we're doing where we're seeing reductions of 60 and 70% crashes. When we start talking about some of the signal timing improvements that we're doing, talking about safety, we're working on east Austin intersection project, doing some safety upgrades at mlk, Springdale and Heflin. Work begins this summer. This is a high crash intersection location. It will include new crossings, smart right turns, which are just sharper. Right turns to slow those right turns down, especially when they're crossing the pedestrians crosswalk there, and then raised bike lanes and also improved bus [2:20:35 PM] bike lanes and also improved bus stops. The north urban trails, the north Austin urban trail extension. We're making progress on the Austin to Maynard trail extension and the shoal creek extension to burnet road. We're also making some Rutland drive upgrades in terms of providing protected bike lanes, new crossings and some other safety treatments there as well. Let's see the parking updates near peace park. This is an ongoing project their team's been working on with the residents, as well as the park and the folks coming to the parks there to find a solution that provides parking for those two. For the folks who who live there, they want to have parking on the street, but also want to provide access to the park. And this project is under our assistant director Lewis, left, and is parking enforcement team, and they've been working really closely to find a solution there that's been implemented. And we'll continue keeping an eye on that project to see how it's [2:21:36 PM] that project to see how it's going and making sure the outcomes that we want to see it deliver are being delivered. The next project, longhorn dam. There was a picture in Anna and Eric's presentation. If you haven't had a chance, that's an amazing project to take a look at that's being built there in in east Austin, making some tremendous progress looking for that to open in 2026. One piece of that project was an underpass of pleasant valley, which has been completed and is now open. So to cross over from the west side of pleasant valley, over there to Craig fields. Wright upcoming corridor construction. Again, Eric and Anna talked some about this, but there is a burnet road segment project that the bids are going to be opening for relatively soon. This project will be from 183 to bright Verde way. This is a section that is owned by txdot. So a lot of again that partnership there to deliver those projects. And this will include some trail links, [2:22:38 PM] include some trail links, transit upgrades, drainage improvements. As always a big challenge for those roads that don't have the inlets and culverts there. And construction will start this fall. All right. Next one I want to turn to one of the other departments that's in our mobility portfolio, and that is the airport. And they've been doing some outreach with all the construction that they have coming forward to small and business, small and local firms. And what they see is about $400 million in opportunities for minority and women owned businesses. So they partnered with el arroyo to spread the awareness of the terminal, of the terminal changes. And just getting that that word out for the opportunities that are presented for the businesses, both here locally and beyond the city. Another thing we just I checked with the airport just before coming over here. They did implement the re, the real [2:23:39 PM] did implement the re, the real id program went in effect last week. That did go very well. There have been any hiccups that they were hearing about. They did staff up both Austin airport staff staffed up as well as TSA, and in making sure that getting folks through and through security and onto their flights. But that seems to have gone very well. Then the last one I want to touch on is an award that the Austin municipal court received, and this was from the Texas municipal courts education center. It was a traffic safety award. And they have they've won this award for the sixth year in a row. And one of the things that was highlighted was a course that they've developed, a live at 25. It's a traffic safety class that's free to juvenile drivers, and it's offered in English and Spanish. They've had about 62 participants in that last year. And just the success that [2:24:39 PM] And just the success that they're having with that program got the attention of the Texas municipal courts education center, and they won that award. But that wraps up the presentation. Thank you. Any questions. >> Any questions or comments from the committee? Council member vela. >> First of all, I just wanted to say thank you for coming to the event the other day and that that went really well. I had a town hall at adobe middle school focusing on public safety and mobility, and the director did a great job with the presentation, and we did it in Spanish as well, and everything went really well. And I appreciate the information and a lot of positive feedback on that, on that discussion. And then just the burnet road corridor program, how is that funded? >> The which one? The burnet that's going to be with, if I'm not mistaken, our 2016 bonds and just part of the corridor [2:25:40 PM] just part of the corridor program project that Eric and Anna were talking about earlier. >> Got it. Thank you. >> Thanks for reminding me. I want to say thank you to the transportation public works for coming to our community fair in late April. We love getting folks to be able to directly connect with you and your staff, and there were a lot of good questions and a lot of good feedback that we were able to talk through, but we appreciate your staff being available for all of these after hours commitments that the council members ask you to come to. >> Yeah, glad to support you all. >> Thanks. Any other questions on this item? It does not appear so. Thank you. All right. The next section is a new section on our agenda. These are previously distributed memos to mayor and council. So there's no official presentations planned. But item seven is transportation public works 2024 annual report. Memo item eight is an appeal regarding right of way vacation memo dated April 24th, 2025. That is about an item on our [2:26:41 PM] That is about an item on our agenda for the 22nd. For the full council to consider. Item number nine is our future 35 cap and stitch q&a process memo. Item number ten is staff response regarding sixth street pilot program from earlier in may, may 2nd, 2025, and item number 11 is the street impact fee status update memo dated may 8th, 2025. I believe we adopted the proposal that came to council that was allowing staff to move forward with having a consultant analyze some of the five year data that's come out of street impact fees and help us kind of work through the first few chapters of that iteration. I know it was a program that we worked on extensively back when council member Kitchin was chairing mobility committee, and it took a lot of detailed work for council and staff to be able to create that program. So we're excited to see that five years have gone by and really wanting to understand, understand, you know, where we are, what's being [2:27:42 PM] know, where we are, what's being collected, and what kind of proposals are being made for the use of those dollars. And it looks like the street impact fee item will be coming back to council. We did not take up that item on the eighth. It was postponed to the 22nd. So we'll be taking that up at our next full council meeting. Are there any questions or comments on any of these items that committee members wanted to address? Council member vela no, not that that. Okay, without further ado, the last item is to identify items for discussion at future meetings. June. We will not have a meeting. July 17th we will tentatively. These are all tentative, so we'll make sure that we meet with staff and understand if these are still the appropriate timeline for these conversations. But right now, we may take up on July 17th and update on mailing parking citations, a topic that council member vela had brought up when we started talking about parking tickets and things of that nature. The Austin strategic mobility plan, six year status report, cap metro transit plan [2:28:43 PM] report, cap metro transit plan 2030 5th August. We may talk about any sort of budgetary impacts. That'll be just after the city council adopts the budget. So we may leave that one very light and potentially cancel that one if there's any. You know, if there's no urgent items, we may not have that meeting. Give everybody a nice break. After adopting our city budget, September 18th is set for a right of way green infrastructure conversations, safe routes to school program and planning update, traffic enforcement October 16th briefing on street impact fee study update briefing on txdot expansion projects and bicycle pedestrian access for project connect station areas and November could be autonomous vehicles and a focus on safety. So we've got a number of other things in in the queue, but if anyone wants to highlight any other issues that they want to make sure that we try to plan in over the next couple of months, you can bring them up now or go [2:29:43 PM] you can bring them up now or go ahead and email us or let us know offline if there's any other considerations. Council member harper-madison. >> It makes it difficult to toggle between. Yeah, I'll be super brief. I just wanted to revisit. I was able to go back and just do a little bit of digging, and there was some information produced for us last year, but I don't know. If you recall, at the end of the last meeting when we took up this item, I brought up the big loop, and I know I, I heard some of the things that are already in the queue, and it doesn't sound like there's anything that's adjacent to that. That would where we could loop in the big loop. But after my conversation today with doctor Burnett over at Waterloo, I'm really itching to resume conversations about trail connectivity and just, you know, connectivity conversations. It feels a lot like I-35 conversations stopped being about connectivity, and I figured, why not resume it with something that, frankly, I [2:30:43 PM] something that, frankly, I support more anyway? And that's trail connectivity and alternative mobility options. So if we could, somewhere along the line resume that discussion, that'd be really awesome. >> Okay, well, I'll add that to the queue. >> Appreciate you. >> Thank you. If there's no further questions before I adjourn, I will say happy bike month to everyone. May is bike month. We're doing a big event tomorrow. Tomorrow morning there will be bike to work day. So there will be coffee and tacos and all sorts of other informational booths here at city hall. And we are excited to get a firsthand tutorial and tour of some of our expanding bicycle network with our city staff, and learn about all the great work they're doing in real time. And to be able to put our our feet and our wheels and our hands on some of the improvements that our city staff work so hard on every day to create these trail connections for us. So on that note, it is 2:31 P.M. And I will adjourn the mobility committee for may thank you all.