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AWAY.[Transportation Infrastructure Mobility Committee Meeting on October 15, 2024.]
ALRIGHT, GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME TO THE OCTOBER 15TH, 2024 MEETING OF THE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND MOBILITY COMMITTEE.I'M CHRIS OTT, THE CHAIRMAN, AND WITH ME, I HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER DYLAN HEDRICK.
UH, ABSENT IS, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CARISSA DUTTON.
SHE MAY SHOW UP AT THE LAST MINUTE, BUT, UH, AS OF RIGHT NOW, SHE'S NOT HERE.
OUR FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE AUGUST 20TH, 2024 MEETING, MOVE TO APPROVE, AND I GUESS I WOULD BE THE SECOND FOR THAT.
COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, UH, HEDRICK, UH, MADE THE MOTION.
I MADE THE SECOND MOTION IS APPROVED.
UH, NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS PUBLIC COMMENTS.
I DON'T SEE ANYBODY HERE FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS HEARING.
I DON'T SEE ANYONE HERE, SO, UH, BUT THEY'RE ALWAYS WELCOME.
IF THEY WERE HERE, UH, WE HAVE ONE ITEM FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
IT'S ITEM THREE A, EVALUATE WRONG WAY, SIGNS ON AVENUE B AND AVENUE D.
AND TO BEGIN THE DISCUSSION, THE COMMITTEES ARE BEGINNING TO PROCESS.
UH, IT'S BEGINNING A PROCESS TO HEAR AND UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE IN GREATER DETAIL, AND THEN ADD RESOURCES AS NEEDED.
THE HOPE IS TO CLARIFY THE DETAILS OF THE ISSUE BEFORE ASKING OUR STAFF TO ASSIST WITH THE SOLUTION.
BUT, UH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER DUTTON, WHO BROUGHT THIS FORWARD IS NOT WITH US RIGHT NOW, SO WE WILL MOVE STRAIGHT ON INTO, UH, YOUR HELP.
UM, SO THIS IS IN REFERENCE TO A REQUEST FROM COUNCIL MEMBER DUTTON TO INSTALL WRONG WAY SIGNS ALONG AVENUE B AND AVENUE DD, AND I BELIEVE THE, THE LIMITS WERE BETWEEN FIRST STREET AND GARLAND AVENUE.
IN THIS INSTANCE, STAFF ACTUALLY AGREES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION AND WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH A PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION.
UM, SO THERE, THERE'S REALLY NOT ANYTHING TO DISCUSS.
WE WILL NOT BE PUTTING THEM AT DRIVEWAYS, BUT AT ALL THE SIDE STREETS AND OF COURSE ALL THE SIGNALED INTERSECTIONS, WE WOULD BE PUTTING THE WRONG WAY SIGNS, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, ALONG THAT CORRIDOR IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.
SO IT WOULD BE, SO THIS IS SIGNAGE AND NOT SOMETHING THAT'S, I, I DON'T KNOW, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, SOMETHING THAT'S HAPTIC, LIKE BUMP STRIPS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? NO, IT'S JUST STRICTLY JUST SIGN STRICTLY SIGNAGE.
SIGNAGE, THE RED AND WHITE WRONG WAY SIGNS, WHICH IS WHAT SHE REQUESTED.
AND HAS THERE BEEN A LOT OF, UM, INSTANCES, HAVE THERE BEEN POLICE ISSUES OR ACCIDENTS OR ANYTHING THAT WE KNOW OF? NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF, BUT ONE THING THAT SHE DID MENTION, UM, WAS THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL NEAR MISSES THAT SHE'S WITNESSED PERSONALLY.
SO IN AN, IN AN EFFORT TO TRY AND CURB SOME OF THAT, STAFF DEFINITELY RECOMMENDS WHAT I MEAN, UH, AGREES WITH HER RECOMMENDATION.
COUNCILMAN HEDRICK? ANY? YEAH, THE QUESTION I HAVE IS, UH, I LOOK DROVE DOWN THE STREETS.
WELL, STREET VIEW IS VERY CONVENIENT BECAUSE YOU CAN LOOK THE WRONG WAY WITHOUT HAVING TO PHYSICALLY DRIVE THERE.
AND, UM, THERE'S, I NOTICE THERE ARE SEVERE LACKING IN THE WRONG WAY SIGNS, BUT ALSO THERE'S ONE WAY SIGNS THAT ARE POSTED GENERALLY ON STOP SIGNS ACROSS STREET AND MAYBE BE A LITTLE HARD TO SEE.
DO YOU GUYS LOOK AT THE ONE WAY SIGNS FOR SPECIFICALLY COMING OUTTA DRIVEWAYS TO GO THE RIGHT DIRECTION? YEAH, I MEAN, WE'RE ACTUALLY, I MEAN, WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF REPLACING A LOT OF THE, THE DOWNTOWN SIGNS, UM, LIKE THAT.
AND SO WHEN WE DO THAT, WE'LL LOOK AT THOSE AGAIN AND MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S, I, I KNOW THERE'S SOME THAT THEY'RE MISSING.
UM, AND SO MAKE SURE THOSE GO BACK UP AND THEN MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE ALL IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
YEAH, I, I, I RECOMMEND DEFINITELY ADDING MORE OF THOSE, JUST THEY'RE HARDEST WHEN THEY'RE ON A STOP SIGN.
THEY'RE GENERALLY NOT ALIGNED WITH THE DRIVEWAY AS YOU WOULD EXPECT.
SO I WOULD HOPE THAT, OR PERHAPS MAYBE WE COULD ADD SOME MORE ONE-WAY SIGNS WHEN PEOPLE ARE COMING OUT OF A DRIVEWAY AT MAJOR BUSINESSES AS WELL.
I, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK WE'LL PUT 'EM AT ALL THE DRIVEWAY.
BUT YEAH, FOR JUST MAJOR HIGH USE RIGHT.
INSTANCES THAT ARE ALONG THAT CORRIDOR.
ALSO, UH, I KNOW I'VE OBSERVED WITH, UH, AS YOU GET RIGHT AT GARLAND ROAD, YOU HAVE GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL THERE AND THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'RE GOING OR WHETHER THEY'RE TRYING TO SHORT CIRCUIT, HAVING TO GO AROUND THE BLOCK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT THEY'LL FREQUENTLY JET OUT IN THE WRONG DIRECTION VERY QUICKLY.
I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TO DISCOURAGE BAD BEHAVIOR LIKE THAT.
IF THEY, IF THEY KNOW THAT IT, AS LONG AS, AS LONG AS ALL WE CAN DO IS LET 'EM KNOW THAT, MAKE 'EM AWARE THE STREET, AND IF THEY CHOOSE TO IGNORE IT, THAT'S,
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THEY GET THE CONSEQUENCES.THERE'S NOT ANY SIGN THAT'S GONNA STOP THAT, SO.
AND I KNOW THERE'S AT, UH, I'VE FREQUENTLY SEEN, IT'S BEEN A LITTLE WHILE SINCE I'VE SEEN THIS, BUT I HAVE OVER THE YEARS, SEEN PEOPLE THAT WILL SIT AT AVENUE D AND UM, AND GARLAND ROAD TRYING TO TAKE A RIGHT TURN ONTO AVENUE D EVEN THOUGH THERE'S CARS THAT ARE SITTING RIGHT THERE LOOKING STRAIGHT AT THEM, THEY'RE JUST SITTING THERE WITH THEIR TURN SIGNAL ON.
UH, I DON'T KNOW WHY I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT.
I'VE SEEN THAT OVER THE YEARS TOO.
THAT, AND I'VE, I'VE SEEN A, PROBABLY TWO INSTANCES OF PEOPLE DRIVING THE WRONG WAY OOF.
ON THERE, BUT GOD BLESS 'EM IN 20 SOME YEARS.
WELL, I, I AGREE WITH SIGNAGE.
THAT'S A GOOD, THAT'S A GOOD MOVE.
SO, AND WE'VE GOT A PLAN, SO YEAH.
UH, ANY FURTHER THINGS YOU HAVE ON IT, DYLAN? NO.
WHEN WOULD YOU LIKE FOR THIS TO BE REPORTED OUT? I GUESS YOU'LL REPORT OUT TO COUNSEL AT, AT OUR NEXT MEETING, AT OUR NEXT, UM, NOT NEXT WEEK, BUT THE FOLLOWING CORRECT.
COUNCIL MEETING OR WORK SESSION.
ALRIGHT, WELL THAT'S OUR ONLY AGENDA ITEM.
SO WITH THAT, UH, WE ARE ADJOURNED AT 5:07 PM WOW.