Draft MTP/SCS Comments Received - sacog

Attachment: Specific Comments about MTP/SCS 2035
Chapter 6 “Policies and Supportive Strategies”
Strategy 2.1: Providing computer software and technical assistance should include
tools for estimating and projecting Multi-Modal Level of Service for complete-street
improvements.
Strategy 2.3: Monitoring and reporting commute patterns should cover all modes of
transportation.
Strategy 2.7: Assessment of transportation projects should ensure full provision of
Complete Streets features.
Strategy 3.5: Providing connections for bicyclists and pedestrians should address
connections across freeways and high speed/high volume arterials in addition to gated
communities, walls, and cul-de-sacs.
Strategy 3.7: Travel modeling studies should be shared with active transportation
groups in addition to local governments and air districts.
Policy 17: “Preservation of the existing road and highway system as top priority for local
public works agencies and Caltrans” must acknowledge that it is also high priority that
that system be modified and enhanced to provide complete-street features to serve all
transportation modes throughout the system.
Strategy 19.2: Supporting seamless trips should also address the “last mile problem” by
providing bicycle improvements such as bike-share programs, directional signage, and
bike storage facilities.
Strategy 20.1: Improving transit access should include providing designated bike routes
and signage around transit stops.
Policy 22: Supporting “proactive and innovative education and transportation demand
management” should include 1) a strategy to consider congestion pricing and parking
management, and 2) a strategy to support active transportation groups in producing
bicycle-route maps, delivering pedestrian and bicycling education, and in completing the
bikeway network.
Policy 24: Outreach to low income and minority communities must include a strategy
that sets a high priority on establishing continuous and direct bicycle networks to key
destinations in Environmental Justice Areas because these communities currently use
active transportation modes at a much higher rate than other communities and will
respond with the greatest increases in bike mode share if adequate facilities exist.
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