* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [Bicycle Advisory Committee on July 24, 2024.] [00:00:14] RIGHT. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. MY NAME IS BRIAN SMITH, II, STAFF LIAISON TO THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. UM, AND TODAY IS OUR COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING. UM, WE'LL GET STARTED WITH THE MISSION AND VISION. SO THERE'S ALWAYS, THE BA'S MISSION IS TO ADVISE AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE COMMISSION AND THE DIRECTOR ON ISSUES RELATED TO BICYCLING IN THE CITY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO AMENDMENTS, TO THE BIKE PLAN, BICYCLE SAFETY AND EDUCATION IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BIKE PLAN, DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIES FOR FUNDING PROJECTS RELATED TO BICYCLING, AND PROMOTING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN BICYCLING WITH THE VISION THAT BY 2027, THE CITY OF HOUSTON WILL BE A SAFER, MORE ACCESSIBLE, GOLD LEVEL, BIKE FRIENDLY CITY. UH, AND THEN WE'LL BEGIN WITH THE, UH, ROLL CALL, UH, TOM CON HERE. ALEJANDRO PEREZ. TRACY ALEXANDER, LEAH CHAMBERS. ADAM J. WILLIAMS. CARL B. SALAZAR. JOE COFO. HERE. LISA GRIFF. HERE. TREVOR REIMAN. HERE. THEMA MOVE. NICK HELLER HERE. BEN DREWS, LAMAR MOTE. MIKE VAN DEUSEN. HERE. NICK KNIGHT, ROBIN A HOLSTER HERE. AND VION MCREYNOLDS. AND THEN OUR EX OFFICIO MEMBERS, UH, JENNIFER OLIN HERE. IAN . IAN'S NOT HERE, BUT WE DO HAVE VIRGINIA LYNN FROM HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS. UH, AND PATRICK FORT HERE. UH, CHAIR THOMPSON. WE CURRENTLY HAVE SEVEN. FRANK, DO YOU ALSO WANNA KNOW THE DIRECTORS HERE? ACKNOWLEDGE OUR, I KNOW JENNIFER MIGHT, I KNOW JENNIFER WAS GONNA DO IT DURING THE, UH, DURING THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT, BUT I ALSO WANT ACKNOWLEDGE OUR NEW DIRECTOR, UH, VON TRAN IS HERE. THANK YOU. MY, YEAH. I, UM, ANOTHER TEAM MEMBER. YEAH, LYNN HENSON WILL BE, UM, IS JOINING OUR FICATION TEAM AS DIVISION MANAGER. AND WE'LL BE PARTICIPATING IN THESE MEETINGS, SUPPORTING BY YAY. WELCOME. AND, UH, SO FOR THE AGENDA FOR CHAIR THOMPSON, WE CURRENTLY HAVE SEVEN OF THE 17 MEMBERS, ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE BAC. SO WE DO NOT HAVE A QUORUM. UM, SO WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE ON ANY, ON ANY ACTION ITEMS, BUT CAN PROCEED WITH, UH, THE PRESENTATION. OKAY, LET'S DO THAT. SO TODAY'S AGENDA, UM, WE'LL START WITH THE DIRECTORS AND THE CHAIRS REPORT. UM, IF WE DO HAVE QUORUM, UM, BY THE TIME WE GET THERE, UM, WE CAN DO APPROVAL OF THE 2024 MEMBER MINUTES, UM, AS WELL AS THE VOTE FOR THE VICE CHAIR. UM, IF NOT, UH, THEY COULD BE TABLED TO LATER MEETINGS. UM, WE ALSO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT, AND THEN WE, UH, THEN HAVE A STAFF PRESENTATION I'LL PRESENT ON THE PROPOSED NAMING OF THE PAT WALSH BIKEWAY. TODAY, WE WILL INITIATE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, UM, FOR THE, FOR THE PROPOSED NAMING. SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS, AND THEN WE'LL GO TO THE QUARTERLY UPDATES FOR BIKEWAY FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES, BIKEWAY PROJECTS, NO PARKING IN THE BIKE LANE, AND END WITH, UH, OPEN FORM AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. THIS DOOR AND THE PUBLIC IS INVITED, UM, TO SPEAK FOR TWO MINUTES AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH MEETING. UM, I'LL ASK CHAIR COMPON, SINCE WE ARE INITIATING THE PAT WALSH BIKEWAY PROPOSED NAMING PROCESS. WE PROBABLY DO HAVE THE TIME WITHIN THE MEETING TO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT AGAIN AFTER THE PRESENTATION. UM, IF THERE ARE ANY FOLLOW UP COMMENTS THAT WE WANT TO ADD TO THE RECORD. SOUNDS GOOD. THIS IS STARTING WITH THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. I'M JENNIFER OSLAND, THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. AND, UM, UH, WE'VE GOT A STRATEGIC BIKEWAYS UPDATE. UH, BOTH [00:05:01] PROJECTS ARE AT A HUNDRED PERCENT DESIGN, UH, AND THESE ARE RE STRIPING CROSSWALK AND ADDING, UH, PAY $71 TO MEDIAN REFUGE AT WHITE OAK BIKE TRAIL ON SAN JACINTO STREET. AND THE SECOND IS ADDING SHARED LANE MARKINGS AND TRAFFIC SIGNS TO MAIN STREET FROM LAMAR TO GRAY. UH, NEITHER OF THESE PROJECTS REQUIRE LANE REDUCTION, SO BOTH WORK STAFF DOESN'T PURSUE THEM BEING DISAPPROVED BY THE ADMINISTRATION, SO THEY WOULD EXPECT THEM TO GO FORWARD. UH, PUBLIC WORKS ARE PREPARING A BID PACKAGE FOR THE PROJECTS, UM, ANY, UH, TO ADVERTISE THE CONTRACTORS. SO THOSE ARE TWO. THERE IS A THIRD PROJECT THAT'S NOT, WASN'T ON THE, UH, STRATEGIC BIKEWAYS LIST, AND THAT'S, UM, SWITCHING LAMAR STREET BIKE LANE TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE ROAD INSTEAD OF CURB SIDE, UM, TO GET IT AWAY FROM SAN HOUSTON PARK. UM, SO THAT'S ALSO, UM, IN DESIGN AND WE'LL GO, UM, SHORTLY. UM, AND THEN I THOUGHT, I ALSO JUST WANTED TO, UM, BRIEFLY TALK ABOUT THE B CYCLE. UM, SINCE WE LAST MET. UM, WE ALL KNOW THAT, UM, DECENT BIKE SHARE IS USED, OPERATIONS JUST NOT SUSTAINABLE IN THAT NON-PROFIT MODEL. THEY TRIED TO GET FUNDING AND TO KEEP GOING, AND IT DIDN'T, DIDN'T HAPPEN. SO THE CITY, UM, SO WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING, AND I THINK IT'S BEEN IN THE NEWS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE EQUIPMENT. WE, THE CITY OWNS ALL. SO THE CITY THROUGH, UM, INITIATED AN EXPANSION PROGRAM, ADDED 97 STATIONS AND 700 BIKES, UM, THROUGH WITH A TIP GRANT TWO. AND SO WE ARE THE OWNERS OF THAT EQUIPMENT, UM, FOR THE GRANT REQUIREMENTS, GENERAL REQUIREMENTS, SO ANY, YOU KNOW, SO WHEN THEY CEASE OPERATIONS, THEN IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO, UM, WELL, WE CAN TAKE THE EQUIPMENT BACK. SO, UM, SO WE, UM, ARE WORKING, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH FIVE SHARE TEAM TO GET THAT EQUIPMENT IN THE HANDS OF OTHER, UM, PROGRAMS, OTHER BIKE SHARE PROGRAMS AROUND THE COUNTRY. AND THERE'S BEEN SOME INTEREST, UH, THE BIKES, YOU KNOW, THE PEDAL BIKES ARE OLDER AND NOT BEING PRODUCED BY TREK ANYMORE, SO THEY HAVE SOME, UM, TO OTHER OPERATORS THAT USE THE SAME EQUIPMENT. AND SAME WITH THE DOCKS. UH, THE E-BIKES A LITTLE NEWER, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, ANYTIME ANYBODY CAN ACQUIRE THE EQUIPMENT A LITTLE CHEAPER USED IT. SO, UM, WE'VE BEEN MOSTLY COMMUNICATING WITH AN ORGANIZATION IN PHILADELPHIA, AND I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME. YOU GO, YES. AND THEY OPERATE A SYSTEM, BUT THEY ALSO WORK HARD TO COLLECT UP EQUIPMENT FROM ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE STOPPING. SO THEY, I THINK THEY'VE ALREADY MAYBE PURCHASED SOME OR WANT BID ON SOME OF 'EM. UM, SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET THEM IN THEIR HAND. IT'S COMPLICATED BECAUSE THEY, THE COST OF SHIPPING IS SO HUGE, AND UNLESS WE CAN PALLETIZE EVERYTHING, IT'S NOT A LOT. IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE FOR THEM. SO WE'VE BEEN, UM, WORKING TO TRY TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE. UM, YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY, ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T GET PURCHASED BY ONE OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS WILL GO FOR SALVAGE PRICES. I THINK A LOT OF THERE IS EQUIPMENT THAT'S NOT RIDEABLE, BUT USED, IT CAN BE USED TO REPAIR OTHER BIKES. UM, SAME WITH THE, THE STATION. AND I THINK THE SOFTWARE, THE, UM, COMPUTER, LIKE THE MOTHERBOARDS INSIDE THERE ARE THERE, THE COMPUTER EQUIPMENT IN THERE HAS SOME VALUE HARDWARE. UM, SO THERE'S PIECES AND PARTS THAT ARE VALUE. SO IT, IT'S SAD. WE, WE HATE TO BE DOING THIS. IT'S, UM, I THINK SOME, A COUPLE FOLKS HAVE ASKED, YOU KNOW, WHY AREN'T YOU JUST HANG ONTO IT FOR THE NEXT PROGRAM? AND IT'S, THAT JUST IS NOT PRACTICAL. IT WOULD BE DETERIORATING AND IT'S BEST TO PUT IT TO TRY TO GET IT TO SEVEN YEARS. WE, AND IF WE ARE FOLLOWING IS THE CITY'S PROCEDURES, THINGS THAT AREN'T, WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT. I DON'T RECALL WHEN HOUSTON VICE CHAIR ACQUIRED A NUMBER OF BIKE FROM DENVER MM-HMM . THEY WENT THROUGH A SIMILAR PROCESS [00:10:01] AND I WOULD'VE THOUGHT THE SHIPPING ISSUE WOULD'VE BEEN SIMILAR THEN. I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WOULD'VE DEALT WITH THEN THAT. YEAH, I, I KNOW I DIDN'T ASK THEM THAT QUESTION. I KNOW IT'S, UM, IT'S TYPICAL FOR THE, WHEN WE DO THIS, AND I THINK BIKE SHARE DID THAT IN DENVER. YOU HAVE TO GO PICK IT UP FROM THE CORNER OR WHEREVER IT'S LOCATED, AND THAT'S HOW WE'RE DOING THE STATIONS, UM, AND BIKE SHARES WILLING AND PREPARED TO GO UNSCREW THINGS AND GET 'EM ALL READY TO BE PACKED UP. UM, BUT I HAVEN'T BEEN REALLY IN THE WEEDS ON WHERE, WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE, BUT, UM, WHEN I WAS ON CALL WITH THE, WITH THE BOAT, I'M PHILADELPHIA, THAT, HOW READY IS IT? YOU? RIGHT. I DID SEE THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME PUBLIC OPTIONS UNDER ONLINE. RIGHT, RIGHT. I KNOW ALAN POND ASKED ME FOR PARTICULAR, LIKE HOPEFULLY , WELL, EVEN ONES THAT MAY NOT BE RIDEABLE OR, YOU KNOW, SUITABLE SALVAGE. YEAH. VERY HARD. YEAH. YEAH, YEAH. DO WE STILL RETAIN, UH, THE RIDE OF WAY FOR WHERE THE PLATFORMS ARE? UH, IF ANOTHER RIDE SHARE ORGANIZATION WERE TO MOVE IN QUESTION DO HAVE TO START FROM SCRATCH? I THINK, UM, THAT DEPENDS ON IF IT'S PRIVATE OR PUBLIC PROPERTY. I, THE PUBLIC PROPERTY, I DON'T FORESEE AS REMOVING ANY OF THOSE PATHS, PADS. UM, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS. WE DO HAVE, UM, THE CITY HAS LEASE AND EASEMENT AGREEMENTS WITH A NUMBER OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS AND BIKE SHARE HAS THEIR OWN ACCOUNT. AND, UM, WE'LL JUST HAVE TO SEE. BUT THAT'S A PRIORITY. I KNOW WE WERE TALKING TO ABOUT STARTING, YOU KNOW, ONE DOING THEIR OWN. WE WERE REALLY PUSHING, TRY TO GET THEM TO USE THE PERSPECTIVE. IT'S ALREADY THAT, THAT'S MY NEW QUESTION. WHY NOT THE PLATFORM SELLING FOR JUST BOOKMARK THOSE LOCATIONS. LEAVE THE, THE ACTUAL, THE DOCKS THERE. YEAH. BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT THE, THE PLACEMENT OF THE STATION WAS, WAS . YEAH. WELL, THEY ALL, MOST OF 'EM HAVE A CONCRETE PAD AND SOME OTHER STUFF. UM, SOME PROPERTY OWNERS ARE JUST CONCERNED ABOUT LEAVING DETERIORATING EQUIPMENT OUT THERE. WE DON'T KNOW WHEN, UM, UH, CERTAINLY HAVE INFORMATION. WE'VE GOT MAPS, WE'VE GOT ALL OF THE OSA WITH, WE CAN'T FIND SOMEBODY TO OPEN ONE WHO WOULD BE ABLE TO HELP DIRECT THEM. I CAN PIGGYBACK ON THAT. MAYBE THAT IS A SMALL PIECE OF HOMEWORK FOR STAFF. LIKE, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, WE HAD CONTRACTS WITH THESE PRIVATE SECTOR LANDOWNERS TO SAY, THIS SPACE IS NOW GONNA BE USED FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD, AND WE DON'T WANNA LOSE THAT. LIKE, THE NETWORK THAT IS BUILT IS, IT'S GONNA BE HARDER TO PRESERVE THE MEMORY OF, BECAUSE WE'RE RENDERING IT INVISIBLE. BUT CONTRACTUALLY IT STILL EXISTS AND IT WILL BE QUICKER AND EASIER TO STAND UP THE NEXT ESSENTIAL BIKE SHARE SERVICE, WHETHER THAT'S METRO OR A THIRD PARTY OPERATOR. IF THE SPOTS WHERE THE PATHS NEED TO GO STILL EXIST. I'M ALSO MORE DEALING WITH ANOTHER COMPANY AND MORE APPEAL TO ANOTHER COMPANY. IT TOOK, IT TOOK YEARS TO, TO ACCUMULATE THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CITY AND VICE CHAIR AND THE PRIVATE LANDOWNERS WHO SAID, YES, I SUPPORT MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION. USE THIS SPOT. SO WE SHOULD, I THINK WE SHOULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO PRESERVE THAT. AND I REALIZE WE DON'T HAVE QUORUM TODAY, BUT I THINK AS AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UH, THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT COMES OUT OF EITHER THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE YEAH. UH, AND THEN INTO THE WHOLE BAC. YEAH. TO, UM, TO EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE RECOMMENDING. CAN, CAN WE PUT THAT ON AS AN AGENDA FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE NEXT MONTH? AND MAYBE IT'S A SMALL PIECE OF HOMEWORK FROM KIM OR SOMEONE ELSE, AND MICHAEL, UM, AND LEGAL TO HELP US FIGURE OUT, LIKE MAYBE IT'S, IT'S A LETTER WE SENT TO EACH OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE ONE OF THOSE AGREEMENTS WITH TO SAY, YOU KNOW, PLEASE RECOGNIZE THAT YOU, YOU ARE PART OF SOMETHING IMPORTANT AND IT'S GONNA BE INVISIBLE FOR A MINUTE, BUT IT STILL EXISTS AND WE'RE COMMITTED TO BRINGING IT BACK. DON'T, DON'T GET FEISTY AND RIP OUT THE PATHS OR PLANT TREES THERE OR MM-HMM. CAR PARKING. LIKE, LIKE YEAH. I THINK THAT'S, YEAH. AND WE CAN CERTAINLY, UM, HAVE MORE INFORMATION BY THE TIME THE CIRCUIT COMMITTEE MEETS AS TO WHAT THE LIMITATIONS ARE. I MEAN, THE, THE EXISTING AGREEMENTS THAT WE HAVE, [00:15:01] SAY IT'S NOT BEING USED EITHER PARTY CAN TERMINATE, AND SO FAR THE, AT LEAST THE PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS ARE LIKE, YEAH, WE DON'T WANT THE INFRASTRUCTURE, WHATEVER, OR WE DON'T WANNA, SO THERE, SO THERE'S THAT ASPECT OF IT THAT WE WILL GET ANSWERS ON IS THAT THOSE BESS, HOW CAN THOSE BES STAND THERE OR WHATNOT. BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY REACH OUT AND JUST PLEASE KEEP THE SPOT OPEN. YEAH. THAT'S NOT CONTRACTABLE. MAYBE THEY COULD INSTALL RACK. GREAT CONCRETE. YEAH. IT'S EASY ENOUGH TO DO. DO WE HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT PERCENT OF THE RACKS ARE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY? AND, UH, WE HAD THAT ON A SPREADSHEET. GET THAT. THANK YOU. AND THAT CONFUSED MY, UM, I WANTED, SO NO, WE DID NOT, I DIDN'T WANTED TO GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A NEW DIRECTOR YES. UM, TO SAY A FEW WORDS AND NEW DIRECTOR REPORT. YES. I'M ON THE HOT SEAT AGAIN. , I'M USED TO THAT. RIGHT. JUST WING IT. JUST, UM, WELL FIRST OF ALL, I AM, UM, VERY THRILLED TO BE PARTICIPATING IN BAC. AND, UH, I NEED TO, IT IS A BIG LEARNING CURVE TO JUMP IN. I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN DRINKING OUT OF THE CHOIR HOSE THE LAST THREE DAYS. UH, BUT I THINK THAT HAVE A GREAT TEAM, UM, HERE AND WE WILL CONTINUE JUST TO KEEP GOING AND THEY WILL GET ME UP TO SPEED. HOPEFULLY THAT WILL BE REALLY SOON. I'M JUST HAPPY TO HERE. THAT IS NOT WELL, I WILL VOUCH FOR YOUR TEAM. AWESOME. , THEY'VE BEEN A REAL PLEASURE TO WORK WITH MY TENURE. CAN I, UM, MAY I JUST SAY I HAD LIKE ONE ORGANIZING IDEA THAT I WANTED TO PUT INTO YOUR HEAD. AS YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THINGS DACI WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK BEYOND THE LITERAL DESCRIPTION OF THIS COMMITTEE AS A BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND THINK OF US MUCH MORE BROADLY AS A SAFE STREETS COMMITTEE THAT FUNDAMENTALLY THE FINE PEOPLE AT HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS, THE ENGINEERS WHO HOLD THE PUBLIC TRUST ARE NOT CARVING UP PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY AND DOLING OUT TKES TO THOSE BICYCLE ENTHUSIA. FUNDAMENTALLY, THE WORK THAT PLANNING AND PUBLIC WORKS IS ENGAGED IN IS THEY ARE LOOKING AT STREETS THAT WERE DESIGNED TO 1940S AND 1950S AND 1960S, IDEAS ABOUT WHAT MAKES A GOOD HIGHWAY. AND THEY ARE RE-IMAGINING OUR URBAN STREETS AS A PLATFORM, A SAFE, WALKABLE, ACCESSIBLE PLATFORM FOR NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT, FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SO ON. AND EVERY ONE OF THE BIKE WAVE PROJECTS THAT'S UNDER CONSIDERATION, MANY OF WHICH ARE STILL ON HOLD, ARE FUNDAMENTALLY SAFE USE PROJECTS THAT WILL MAKE OUR STREETS SAFER, MOSTLY FOR DRIVERS. BUT THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE SERIOUS AND FAILED CRASHES IN OUR COMMUNITY ARE DRIVERS. SO I, THAT, THAT, I HOPE I'M SPEAKING FOR EVERYONE WHEN I SAY, PLEASE THINK VERY BROADLY ABOUT THE WORK OF THIS COMMITTEE AND THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO FOR THE PEOPLE OF HOUSTON. WELL SAID. THANK YOU FOR THAT. I DON'T KNOW, IS THAT ON THE WEBSITE OR Y'ALL DO FINE TUNING YOUR ? YEAH, THERE'S DEFINITELY, OH, I LIKE THAT IDEA. THE DIRECTOR TOLD US TO REVISE THE VISION. OKAY. , I'M KIDDING. THEY EXIST BY ORDINANCE. THAT FAIR. IT'S EASIER THAN THAT'S TRUE. YEAH. YEAH. AND, UM, SO FOR THE, AND SO FOR THE WEBSITE OF, OF THE BAC, UM, A LOT OF THAT IS KIND OF MODERATED BY, BY MYSELF AND, AND THE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM. WE DO HAVE, UM, WE HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS MOSTLY THROUGH THE EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE, UM, ABOUT WAYS TO, YOU KNOW, KIND OF MAKE, MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO, UM, THE PUBLIC FACING, UM, OR THE PUBLIC INTERFACE OF THE BAC. UM, SO WE'D LOVE TO BRING YOU UP TO SPEED ON, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED EARLIER. UM, OF COURSE, WITHIN YOUR TIME, MAYBE WHEN I, WHEN I GET BACK AND I KNOW YOU'VE GOT, YOU'VE GOT A LOT ON, ON YOUR PLATE AS WELL. WRITE ME DOWN 10 WEEKS. . OCTOBER 8TH. OCTOBER. OCTOBER 8TH. AND, UM, AND I'LL, AND I'LL ALSO BE I'LL, I I WILL BE, YOU KNOW, LIKE AVAILABLE LIKE, AND ALWAYS LIKE GET ON THE PHONE CALL OR A QUICK MEETING JUST [00:20:01] TO KIND OF HELP WITH CONTEXT AND STUFF. , THANK YOU. UM, FOR MY REPORTS, IT'S GONNA SOUND A LITTLE BIT LIKE DEJA VU BECAUSE I, THIS BOOK THAT I'VE BEEN READING RECORDING ON THE LAST SEVERAL MEETINGS. I FINALLY FINISHED THIS WEEKEND ON MY WAY DOWN HERE, FLYING DOWN HERE FROM MICHIGAN. UM, IT'S CALLED BIKE BATTLES. IT'S, UH, IT WAS WRITTEN IN 2015. UM, SO THE LAST TWO CHAPTERS, THE NEXT TO LAST CHAPTER WAS MY FAVORITE DECADE IN 1970S. 'CAUSE THAT'S WHEN I REALLY GOT INTO BIKING. AND I BOUGHT MY FIRST 10 FEET, WHICH I DO STILL HAVE VARSITY. NO, ALTHOUGH THAT WAS THE BIKE THAT THEY MENTIONED IN THE CHAPTER. NO, MINE WAS A A POLY SUIT. IT IS A POLY SUITER. VARSITY. VARSITY. YEAH. THERE WE GO. THERE WE GO. WE QUORUM. WELCOME. SO, UM, HEY DR. DO WE HAVE WE STILL ONE, ONE? I DIDN'T KNOW I MINUTES CHANGE. I'LL JUST CONTINUE REAL QUICKLY ON THE BOOK. UH, SO THE SEVENTIES WERE FASCINATING TIME. I MEAN, THEY CAME RIGHT AFTER THE SIXTIES, WHICH WERE PRETTY AROUND FASCINATING TOO. BUT, UM, IT WAS THE EARLY SEVENTIES FOR ANOTHER BICYCLE RENAISSANCE, A BIKE BOOM. AND THERE WERE A COUPLE THINGS DRIVING IT. ONE WAS, UH, THE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT AND A RECOGNITION OF BIKING AS, UH, ENVIRONMENTALLY, YOU KNOW, LESS IMPACTFUL, CERTAIN DRIVING. AND UH, THE OTHER THING WAS THE ENERGY CRISIS THAT BEGAN WITH THE 1973 OIL MARKET. UM, AND SO BETWEEN THOSE TWO THINGS, A LOT OF PEOPLE, ADULTS THIS TIME GOT INTO BIKES. 'CAUSE UP TO THAT TIME, YOU KNOW, ADULTS REALLY HADN'T BEEN ON BIKES IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE LIKE MY EARLY 19 HUNDREDS. AND CARS REALLY TOOK OVER. BUT I DO REMEMBER THIS. THE DOGS ACTUALLY HAD LONG BIKES. I WAS A TEENAGER, BUT NO ONES WERE ACTUALLY OUT. IN FACT, MY DAD DID, YOU KNOW, HE GOT ME INTO BIKING WHILE WE HAD EACH OTHER. SO THOSE TWO THINGS REALLY DROVE THE BIKE BOOM OF THE SEVENTIES. AND IT WAS ALSO A TIME WHEN STATES AND CITIES WERE LOOKING AT CREATING SEPARATE PLACES FOR BIKES TO RIDE. 'CAUSE NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE WERE A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE GETTING OUT THERE AND THEY WERE MIXING UP WITH CARS AND NOT EVERYONE WAS HAPPY WITH THAT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE POSTER CHILD WHERE THAT WAS CALIFORNIA, LOT OF PEOPLE WERE FAMILIAR WITH THEM. I REMEMBER READING ABOUT THEM, UH, IN THE BIKE MAG BACK THEN ON HOW, WOW, THIS IS . THEY WERE DOING THE SEPARATED PROTECTED BIKE LANE AND BYPASS AND ALL THAT KIND OF THING. AND SO CITIES WERE LOOKING AT DOING THAT. STATES WERE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT FUNDING IT, YOU KNOW, THE FEDS WERE LOOKING AT IT. AND NOW THE THING CAME ALONG CALLED VEHICULAR CYCLING AND JOHN FORSTER WAS THE CHAMPION OF THAT. AND IT HAS ITS PLACE. IT'S WHERE YOU DON'T JUST RIDE YOUR BIKE, YOU DRIVE YOUR BIKE, YOU DRIVE LIKE A CAR. WE HAVE THE SAME RIDE. SOME RESPONSIBILITIES. ALL THAT'S TRUE AND THAT'S GREAT AND YOU'RE BRAVE AND STRONG AND YOU'RE HAPPY MIXING IT UP WITH CARS ON KIRBY AND WEST HIGHWAY AND ALL THAT STUFF. NOT ALL OF US ARE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE THING THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THIS THING STARTED WITH THE SEVENTIES AND UNFORTUNATELY IT KIND OF TOOK THE WIND OUT OF THE SAILS OF A LOT OF FUNDING EFFORTS THAT KIND OF, YOU KNOW, THE ADVOCACY GROUP KIND OF GOT SPLIT. AND I LOOKED THROUGH THIS IN BY HOUSTON WHEN I JOINED BY HOUSTON BOARD IN THE TWO THOUSANDS AND EARLY 20 TEENS. WE HAD THAT SPLIT GOING ON. THERE WERE PEOPLE ON OUR BOARD, IT WAS ALL VOLUNTEER. WE DIDN'T HAVE STAFF THAT SAID, WE DON'T NEED BIKE WAVES, WE DON'T NEED PATHS. WE CAN ALL DRIVE OUR BIKES. YOU KNOW, SHARE THE LANE. ALL THAT KIND OF TAKE THE LANE, YOU ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. AGAIN, THAT'S GREAT FOR 3% MAYBE IF THAT, THAT MIGHT BE A STRETCH FOR THE REST OF US. UM, WE NEED A, YOU KNOW, AND, AND IT'S, IT'S OKAY ON NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS, YOU KNOW, QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS IN THE, ANYWAY, WHAT I'M GETTING AT, UNFORTUNATELY, THAT TOOK OUT THE WINDOW OUTTA THE SAILS. THEN IT CONTINUES. I DON'T THINK IT'S AS MUCH OF A DIVISIVE THING AS IT WAS EVEN 10 OR 15 YEARS AGO. I THINK MUCH MORE AND MORE PEOPLE HAVE GOTTEN ON BOARD ALL AGES, ALL ABILITIES. WE NEED PLACES FOR EVERYONE TO RIDE. AND I HOPE THAT CONTINUES. 'CAUSE IT'S TOUGH ENOUGH ADVOCATING FOR ANYTHING WHEN YOU'RE SPLIT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE DIFFERENT PEOPLE UNDERCUTTING, YOU KNOW, PART OF WHETHER IT'S THE BIKE ADVOCACY OR I'M ALSO PASSENGER RAIL AND THEY HAVE SIX DIVISIONS TOO. UM, WE NEED TO JOIN TOGETHER AND WE ESPECIALLY NEED TO JOIN TOGETHER NOW. UM, YOU KNOW, THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION ISN'T REAL KEEN ON, ON STREET BIKEWAYS, [00:25:01] IF IT TAKES AWAY FROM, UH, CAR LANES, THAT LEAVES STILL AN AWFUL BIG PLAY, UH, PLAYGROUND FOR US TO WORK IN. UM, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, BEYOND THE BODY THING, RIGHT, LISA, THAT YOU'RE WORKING, WORKING ON. I MEAN, THERE'S A MOUNTAIN BIKING, WHETHER IT'S MORE TRAILS OR, UM, WHAT DO THEY CALL THE, THE SKILLED, UH, UH, PUMP TRACKS. YEAH. PUMP TRACKS, YOU KNOW, THOSE KIND OF THINGS. AND THERE'S STILL THINGS WE CAN DO. AND, AND IT WAS DEMONSTRATED JUST A MONTH OR SO AGO WHERE COMPROMISE WAS REACHED WITH THE ADMINISTRATION ON THE SHEPHERDS GROUP. SO THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO DO HERE. UM, THERE'S A LOT OF PROGRESS WE CAN MAKE, BUT WE NEED TO BE TOGETHER ON IT. WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER ON IT. SO, UM, I'M DONE WITH THAT BOOK. WE TO FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO PREACH ON NEXT TIME, BUT I DO HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT AND LET THIS GOING TOGETHER AND GO FORWARD TOGETHER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND I'LL, UH, IN THE, IN THE POST MEETING EMAIL, I'LL SEND ANOTHER BLURB ABOUT THE, UH, ABOUT THE BOOK YEAH. SO THAT EVERYBODY CAN CHECK IT UP. THANKS. SO, UH, NOW, UH, ALTHOUGH WE DON'T, SO WE DON'T HAVE QUORUM NOW, UM, STILL WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE LIKE EVERYBODY WHO'S PRESENT HAS HAD A COPY EITHER DIGITALLY OR PHYSICALLY. IF ANYBODY NEEDS COPIES OF THE APRIL MINUTES, UM, I HAVE THEM AVAILABLE. ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WE CAN'T HAVE A VOTE TO APPROVE UNTIL WE'VE REACHED FORMAL. DOES ANYBODY NEED. SO MOVING ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT. UM, SO AS ALWAYS WRITTEN COMMENTS ARE ACCEPTED BY 5:00 PM THE DAY BEFORE VAC MEETINGS. UM, AND THOSE COMMENTS WILL BE READ ALOUD BY STAFF. UM, AS OF 5:00 PM YESTERDAY, WE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY, UM, WRITTEN COMMENTS. UM, JUST SOME EMAILS ACKNOWLEDGING THAT PEOPLE WOULD COME IN, UM, TO GIVE A PUBLIC COMMENT. UM, AND OF COURSE, PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE, ARE GIVEN IN PERSON AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING. UM, AND THEY'RE UP TO TWO MINUTES AT A TIME. SO CURRENTLY WE DID GET AN EMAIL FROM A MS. MARION WRIGHT, UM, SAYING THAT SHE WAS GOING TO GIVE A PUBLIC COMMENT, UM, AT THE BAC MEETING TODAY. I DO NOT SEE HER HERE, BUT IF, UH, IF SHE COMES LATER, I WANT TO AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, UM, SHE DID INTEND TO COME AND SPEAK. UM, SO SHE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE TIME TOWARDS THE END OF, UM, NEXT. UM, WE DO HAVE TWO ADDITIONAL COMMENTS. UM, WE HAVE ONE FROM, UH, MS. LINDSAY RIDGE, WA AND FROM KEVIN STRIP. I'M GONNA GO BEFORE LINDSAY, IF THAT'S OKAY. OKAY. IF I SIT HERE. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YEAH. MM-HMM . UM, I KNOW PRETTY MUCH EVERYBODY HERE, BUT BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION, MY NAME IS KEVIN STRICKLAND. UM, I WISH THE PLANNING DIRECTOR WAS STILL HERE. I WOULD'VE LOVED TO ENGAGE WITH HER A BIT, BUT, UM, I'M MY WAY OF BACKGROUND. I'M PRESIDENT OF THE GREATER HEIGHTS SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD. AND THE REASON I MENTIONED THAT IS MY AREA IS PARTICULARLY CARES A LOT ABOUT MOBILITY AND INITIATIVES LIKE WALKABLE PLACES, LIVABLE PLACES, TRANSIT OR DEVELOPMENT. THE DIRECTOR WAS STILL HERE. I WOULD ASK HER TO HOPING THAT THOSE INITIATIVES SURVIVE AND NEW MEXICO ADMINISTRATION. AND THEN, UM, SECONDLY, I'M CO-FOUNDER OF A NON-PROFIT, A COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION CALLED, UH, WALK AND ROLL HOUSTON. UH, SO TO ROBIN'S, UH, BRILLIANT POINT, UM, WE ARE WORKING TO CREATE A CITY WHERE HOUSTONIANS CAN WALK AND ROLL SAFELY AND EASILY AS THEY NEED. SO OFTEN THE DISABLED COMMUNITY IS LEFT OUT OF THE DISCUSSION ENTIRELY AND WE HAVE TO FIX THAT. SO WE'RE TALKING BEFORE, UH, WITHOUT KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT'S GONNA, UH, BE SAID ABOUT THE PAT WALSH BIKEWAY. WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE A COUPLE OF TIMES. AND SO I'M JUST GONNA GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND ON THAT. UM, WE HAVE PROPOSED A PROJECT TO RENAME EXISTING CORRIDORS FOR PAT WALSH. I'M GONNA ASSUME EVERYBODY KNOWS, UH, PAT'S STORY. CERTAIN LINDSEY, UM, , UM, WHICH REALLY STRETCHED FROM SIX 10 SOUTH TO, OH GOSH, RIGHT? I'M JUST GETTING STARTED. UM, SIX 10, UH, SOUTH TO SIX 10 NORTH. AND THAT WAS THE PROPOSAL THAT WE PUT FORWARD TO THE COMMUNITY. AND TO THAT EXTENT, WE'VE GOTTEN LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM A NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS. LEMME JUST READ THOSE TO YOU BASED ON THAT INITIAL PROPOSAL. SO MY SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD, THE, THE MONTROSE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD, THE MONTROSE TOURS, THE MEMORIAL HEIGHTS TOURS [00:30:01] COMMISSIONER, REAL QUICK, ACKNOWLEDGING THE TWO MINUTES. UH, TOM, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE MORE TIME? YEAH, GO AHEAD. YEAH, I WAS JUST GONNA KEEP GOING. ANYWAY, BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY AT PUBLIC SESSION, GOT MY OWN RISK, UH, COMMISSIONER RODNEY ELLIS, COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN, UH, THE MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY BY HOUSTON AND WALK AND ROLL HOUSTON. UM, SO WE REALIZED TODAY THAT THAT PROPOSAL THAT WE'VE GIVEN DIDN'T SURVIVE. UM, SO IT'S A REALLY A QUESTION OF WE'LL TAKE WHAT WE CAN GET. WE DON'T WANT THE NEED FOR THE PERFECT TO BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD. AND SO WE'RE GONNA TREAT THE PROJECT THAT'S BEING PROPOSED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AS THE BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS, NOT NECESSARILY THE END. AND I THINK, UH, I WORKED WITH PAT BEFORE AND I THINK HE WOULD BE OKAY WITH THAT. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. HEY, YOU KNOW, I STILL GOTTA SAY, STILL GOTTA SAVE TWO MINUTES. NFL MINUTES. . HI EVERYONE. GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. LINDSAY , PAT WALSH. DREAMED BIG, HAD SO MANY GREAT IDEAS FOR THE CITY. I WISH THE DIRECTOR HAD STAYED TO LISTEN TO THIS, BUT I ALSO MIGHT PUT TOO MUCH PRESSURE ON HER. 'CAUSE IN LESS THAN FIVE YEARS HE ACCOMPLISHED MORE THROUGH THE BIKE PLAN AND PLANNED HOUSTON THAN MOST PLANNERS EVER GOT TO DO. HE WAS DEDICATED TO HOUSTON, THE CITY WHERE HE WAS BORN AND RAISED, WHERE WE STARTED OUR FAMILY. AND UM, I DON'T KNOW IF I'VE TOLD YOU THE STORY, BUT AT ONE POINT HE MET WITH THE MIRROR AFTER HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH BRAIN CANCER AND JEFF CARLTON, UM, EGGED HIM ON TO TELL SYLVESTER TURNER THAT HE NEEDED A SUBWAY AS, UM, OUR NEXT APPROACH. AND THAT WAS, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS THE BRAIN TUMOR OR JEFF WAS TO HIM, BUT, UM, HE WOULD'VE ALLOWED EMMANUELS AND KEVIN'S ARTICULATION OF A BIKEWAY TO CONNECT THE CITY ALLOWS FAMILIES, EMPLOYEES, KIDS, ADULTS, SCHOOLS, EVERYONE TO GET TO SEMINAR. TO GO TO YOUR POINT, ROBIN AND I, THE DIRECTOR COULD HEAR IS IT'S ALL ABOUT SAFETY. IT'S HOW WE DID THIS. AND I DON'T KNOW IF I TOLD YOU THIS EITHER, IS THAT WHEN PAT WAS DIAGNOSED WITH, HE WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR HIS BIRTHDAY, WHICH IS ALSO JULIAN'S FIRST BIRTHDAY, SO HE NEVER GOT A BIRTHDAY WITH PAT OUTSIDE OF M ANDERSON. AND YOU KNOW, PAT DID, HE BOUGHT JULIAN A BIKE CARRIER. 'CAUSE HIS DREAM WAS HE WANTED TO RIDE A BIKE WITH JULIAN IN HIS BIKE CARRIER TO SCHOOL. SO I WANNA THANK EMMANUEL AND KEVIN FOR THEIR WORK ON THIS. I ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS IS NOT THE BIG DREAM WE HAD. PAT DREAMED BIG, BUT HE WAS ALSO A REALIST. SO LIKE KEVIN SAID, WE CAN ACCEPT, WE CAN GET, UM, AND THAT'S THE BEGINNING. ALL OF THIS HAS TO START SOMEWHERE. YOU'RE GONNA TELL ME IT'S TWO MINUTES AND LIKE 10 SECONDS. YEAH. SAY SAME TWO MINUTES, . OKAY. I'LL GET ONE MORE MINUTE. SO I WANNA THANK, BUT I ALSO WANTED, I MEAN, BRIAN, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. BRIAN WAS PAT'S CHIEF OF STAFF AND SO I PROBABLY OVERHEARD MORE CONVERSATIONS WITH PAT AND BRIAN AND BRIAN HAS WITH FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, . UM, AND, AND, UH, AND CHRIS NEWPORT HAS BEEN GREAT. MARGARET I TRULY LOVED. UM, SO I ALSO WANNA THANK THE HIGH SCHOOL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS, SUPPORT OF THE BIKE WAY. I LOVE HOW THIS GROUP DREAMS BIG. WE GAVE YOU A BIG PROPOSAL AND YOU WENT WITH IT. AND I LOVE THAT. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT PAT WOULD'VE LOVED. SO THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING SOMETHING THAT PAT WOULD'VE SUPPORTED. WELL, I'M NOT SEEING THE FINAL PROPOSAL OFFICIALLY. IT APPEARS THE CITY IS NOT LOOKING TO SUPPORT THE ENTIRE BIKE WAY. I'LL STILL TAKE THIS AS A WING. WE'VE BEEN TAKING A GREAT STEP FORWARD. I HOPE THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE CONTINUES AT WORK THAT THE CITY OF HOUSTON CAN BE A GREAT PLACE, NOT ONLY FOR US, BUT FOR JULIAN AND HIS FRIENDS AS THEY GROW. AND ALSO, UM, JULIAN KNOWS THAT MOMMY LIKES TO GET INVOLVED IN MORE THINGS. SO WATCH OUT. I WATCH HTVA LOT, STUFF LIKE THAT. SO IF YOU NEED A NEW COMMUNITY ADVOCATE, I HAVE A QUESTION. UM, SO ARE YOU NOW CURRENTLY PROPOSING A SCALE DOWN AND WHAT IS THAT SCALE DOWN THAT THAT IS WHAT THIS IS WHY IT'S KIND OF BACKWARDS IS, SO I JUST IN IF I, SORRY, GET OFF. IT'S LIKE THE CITY HAS A LOT OF, I'M GONNA DO THE PUBLIC COMMENT THAT I COULD HAVE MADE AFTER YOUR RESIGNATION. OH, YOU DON'T PRESENT ON THAT, RIGHT? HE'S GONNA PRESENT ON IT, YES. OKAY. BUT A LOT OF IT IS THERE. THIS IS I THINK SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE GREAT TO BE ON A VICE, THE VAC AGENDA. THERE IS CURRENTLY NO RULES IN THE CITY GOVERNMENT TO GOVERN SOMETHING LIKE BIKE FACILITIES, BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE, [00:35:01] THINGS LIKE THAT. SO THEY'RE TAKING THIS UNDER THIS FACILITIES NAMING. SO THEY'RE TEEING THIS AS IF WE'RE RENAMING A STREET OR CITY HALL AFTER PAT. OKAY. . AND I THINK IT WOULD BE A REALLY GREAT THING IF THE CITY COULD PUT, OR BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE COULD ADVANCE SOME IDEAS ON, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HOW NAMING SOMETHING MAKES IT SAFER. NAMING IT MAKES IT BETTER. NAMING IT MAKES IT A THING. EVEN IF YOU DON'T STRIKE IT, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE A LINE. YOU CAN PUT THE LITTLE SIGN UP AND THE, THE SAFETY THAT COMES FROM THAT. AND RIGHT NOW THE CITY HAS NO WAY TO DO THIS. AND THIS IS WHY I APPRECIATE THEIR EFFORTS. AND A NUMBER OF TIMES I CRIED IN CITY HALL, I CRIED AT THIS OFFICE A MILLION TIMES. IT'S A REALLY BIG ASK. WE ASKED AND THEY DID THE BEST THEY COULD, BUT THE WAY THE ADMINISTRATION IS THERE WAS GOT IT. YEAH. SO, BUT, BUT THERE'S A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. . HEY BRIAN, YOU FEEL FREE PRESENTING ON THIS NOW, ? YEAH. SO I, I'LL PRESENT ON THIS. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I DID ASK, UH, SHARE CONTENT IS, YOU KNOW, GIVEN THE BREVITY OF THE AGENDA, UM, LIKE, YOU KNOW, ALLOWING FOR MORE TIME AFTER THE PRESENTATION TO ALLOW FOR, UM, ADDITIONAL COMMENTS AFTER, AFTER THE PRESENTATION. OKAY. YEAH. SO WE STILL DO NOT HAVE QUORUM, UM, TO HAVE THE VOTE FOR VICE CHAIR, UM, JUST TO, YOU KNOW, KIND OF TALK ABOUT THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. OF COURSE, THE VICE CHAIR DOES ALL THE DUTIES OF THE CHAIR WHEN THE CHAIR IS ABSENT OR HONOR UNABLE TO PERFORM SUCH DUTIES. UM, AND THEN THE VICE CHAIR ALSO COLLABORATES WITH STAFF ON PLANNING AGENDAS. AND THEN ALL NON-STAFF PRESENTATIONS, UM, YOU KNOW, MUST BE APPROVED BY THE CHAIR OF VICE CHAIR BEFORE THEY COME TO THE BX. UM, OUR CURRENT VICE CHAIR IS ALEJANDRO THREATS. UM, AND THE CHAIR, THE REASON WHY DOES NOT VOTE ON THE CHAIR IS THE CHAIR IS APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR, UM, AND IS A PART OF THE BAC APPOINTMENTS AND REAPPOINTMENTS. UM, AND I'LL ALSO TAKE THIS TIME TO SAY THAT WE STILL DO NOT HAVE, UM, AN UPDATE AS FAR AS THE, YOU KNOW, UPDATED BAC APPOINTMENTS OR REAPPOINTMENTS. THE, UM, THE ORIGINAL MEMO THAT WE SUBMITTED BACK IN JANUARY IS STILL AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. UM, SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WILL BE TALKING TO OUR NEW DIRECTOR ABOUT. UM, JUST REMINDING HER WHAT WE'VE SUBMITTED, UM, YOU KNOW, SO SHE CAN HAVE A LOOK AT IT, IF SHE HAS ANY RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, OR CHANGES AND HOPING, UH, THAT WE CAN, WE CAN GET IT RESOLVED SOONER, SOONER RATHER THAN DO YOU KNOW WHETHER THOSE PEOPLE ARE STILL AVAILABLE AND INTERESTED? UM, FOR THE MOST PART, UM, I KNOW, UM, OF AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE THAT ARE STILL STILL INTERESTED. UM, ONE, UM, FROM OUR REPRESENTATIVE FROM, FROM, UH, HPD, UM, SHE IS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF BEEN VOLUNTEERING HER TIME AT A LOT OF THESE MEETINGS, UM, JUST IN THE INTERIM. UM, AND THEN WE DID HAVE, UM, ONE OF OUR, ONE OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, FROM HISD. SHE'S BEEN ACTIVE, UM, AND EVEN LISTENING IN, IN, IN MEETINGS WHEN, WHEN SHE CAN. SO, UM, I'M, I'M THINKING SOME, SOME MAY, UH, STILL WANT YOU TO BE A PART OF THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. SO WE'RE STILL WAITING. AND THEN NOW I WILL, I WILL PRESENT ON THE, THE PROPOSED, UH, PAT WASH, UH, BIKEWAY NAMING REQUEST. SOME OF THIS INFORMATION, UM, EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY MAY KNOW FROM PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS. SO SOME OF IT, UH, MAY SOUND A LITTLE REDUNDANT. AND THEN WE'LL ALSO TALK ABOUT, UH, THE STAFF RECOMMENDED CHANGE AND THE WAY FORWARD. SO THE, UM, ORIGINAL REQUEST, UH, FROM LINDSAY AUGUST WALSH, KEVIN STRICKLAND AND MANUEL NUNEZ, UM, WAS TO NAME A ROUGHLY 10 MILE STRETCH OF EXISTING AND FUTURE BIKE WAVES. UM, AFTER PAT WALSH, OUR PAST PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR. UM, THE REASON WHY IS THAT ALTHOUGH HE WAS THE DIRECTOR JUST FROM 2014 TO, UM, HIS UNTIMELY PASSING IN 2018, UM, HE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS AS A CIVIL SERVANT. UM, AS THE PLANNING DIRECTOR, HE LED ADOPTION OF THE CITY'S FIRST GENERAL PLAN PLAN HOUSTON, UM, AND ALSO SHEPHERDED AND PUSHED FORWARD THE HOUSTON BIKE PLAN. UH, THE PLAN THAT WE ARE STILL EXECUTING NOW IN THE BAC OF COURSE IS, IS ONE OF THE, THE OUTCOMES FROM THAT, FROM THAT PLAN. AND THAT WAS THE, THE UPDATE TO THE, THE BIKE PLAN [00:40:01] SINCE FIRST UPDATE SINCE I BELIEVE 93. UM, AND YOU KNOW, ALSO WITH THESE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AFTER HIS PASSING, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS OF NOTE IS THAT THEN MAYOR SVETA TURNER, UH, RECOMMENDED, UM, AT HIS SERVICE THAT, THAT WE, WE ACKNOWLEDGE PAT BY NAMING THE BICYCLE FACILITY AFTER HIM, UM, THROUGH THEIR, THROUGH THEIR REQUEST. THEY'VE BEEN GARNERING SUPPORT. KEVIN MENTIONED, UH, SOME OF THE LETTERS OF SUPPORT THEY RECEIVED. UM, SO FAR, I BELIEVE MARCH'S COUNT WAS, UH, AT LEAST 25 LETTERS OF SUPPORT IN FAVOR OF THE PAT WASH BIKEWAY. AND THEN THEY ALSO PRESENTED TO THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE TWICE. UM, SO THEY DID PRESENT LAST YEAR, AUGUST, THAT THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE, AND THEN THEY PRESENTED TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE, UH, IN OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR. AND THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THAT PROCESS, UM, AS STAFF, I'LL, I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE, UM, THE STAFF PROCESSES AFTER WE JUST REITERATE THE COURT ORDER ABOUT WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING SINCE THEIR INITIAL PRESENTATION. SO THE PROPOSED CORRIDOR, ALTHOUGH IT SAYS NINE MILES IN THIS, IS FROM, UH, FROM THE INITIAL PRESENTATION WHEN WE DID THE CALCULATION, UM, LIKE NGIS, WE CAME TO TWO TO ABOUT 10 MILES. UM, AND THAT OF COURSE IS PROBABLY USED, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE TERMS. UM, AND, YOU KNOW, STREETS ARE, STREETS ARE A LITTLE BIT NUANCED. UM, BUT ALL IN ALL THE, THE MAIN CORRIDORS GO FROM, UM, SOUTH TO NORTH SIX, 10 TO SIX 10 STARTING WITH, UH, ALAMEDA ROADS OFF STREET, UM, AND THEN RECOMMENDING, UM, ALUMNI DRIVE IN KENT STREET, WHICH GOES THROUGH RICE UNIVERSITY, UM, AND MEDICAL CENTER. UM, THEN GOING UP WOODHEAD, UM, CROSSING, CROSSING, UH, BUFFALO BAYOU TO JACKSON HILL, BLOSSOM PATTERSON, AND THEN CROSSING WHITE OAK BAYOU. UM, AND THEN GETTING TO THE NICHOLSON STREET, UH, BIKEWAY, WHICH LEADS YOU ALL THE WAY, ALMOST UP TO 16. SO, UH, TO TALK ABOUT THE STAFF PROCESS, THE, THE, UH, GUIDANCE THAT WE HAD TO GO OFF OF WAS EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE DASH FOUR SEVEN. UH, THAT WAS THE CLOSEST THAT WE COULD FIND, UM, TO SOME KIND OF GUIDANCE ON HOW TO PUSH THIS FORWARD. THE, UH, NAMING OF OF CITY FACILITIES, UM, IS USUALLY USED TO TO, TO RENAME ANY CITY OWNED FACILITIES. UM, AFTER INDIVIDUALS WHO'VE MADE EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE CITY OF HOUSTON, MOST, UH, REQUESTS UP TO NOW HAVE BEEN ABOUT BUILDINGS. UM, SO A GOOD EXAMPLE WOULD BE, UM, HPD HEADQUARTERS, WHICH WAS RECENTLY, UM, RENAMED AFTER, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE LAWS SERVING, UH, POLICE OFFICERS HERE IN THE CITY. THIS IS THE FIRST REQUEST THAT, THAT WE'VE SEEN THAT IDENTIFIES THE FACILITY WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY. UM, THE ONLY THING THAT KIND OF EXISTED FOR BIKEWAYS IN A SENSE, UM, WAS ABOUT PARK FACILITIES. UM, SO THERE IS A, THERE IS A SEPARATE ORDINANCE, UM, PARTICULARLY AROUND PARKS AND RENAMING PARKS. THERE'S, UH, THE RECREATIONAL DEPARTMENTAL POLICY, UH, 10, 10 DO FOUR. UM, AND THAT WOULD BE A GOOD FIT IF WE WERE TO RENAME ONE OF THE TRAILS, UM, THAT IS ALREADY IN THE PARKS JURISDICTION. UM, THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT NOT FOR AN ACTUAL STREET. UM, THERE WAS, THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT WE HAD FOR ACTUAL STREETS WAS, UM, WE DO HAVE, UM, A PARTICULAR ORDINANCE THAT THAT DOES, UM, STREET MARKER, HONORARY STREET MARKERS. THAT'S FROM HERE IN THE PLANNING DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, BUT THAT IS ON A BLOCK BY BLOCK BASIS. UM, SO YOU CAN ONLY USE IT FOR ONE BLOCK. SO THAT'S WHEN, UM, YOU'LL, YOU'LL KIND OF SEE SOME OF THOSE SIGNS ON TOP OF THE STREET SIGN. UM, AND SINCE THIS WAS, THIS WAS A SCALE VERY, VERY MUCH LARGER THAN A BLOCK, UM, WE DID NOT THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE SUITABLE. THAT WHAT SETS THAT BLOCK LIMITATION, UM, THAT IS A PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT POLICY, I BELIEVE. OKAY. SOUNDS LIKE AN OPPORTUNITY. YEAH, BECAUSE IT'S IN OUR, IT'S IN OUR HONORARY STREET MARKER PROCEDURES, PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS. AND WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO UPDATE THAT? I DON'T KNOW. I CAN LOOK INTO IT. I I CAN, I CAN LOOK INTO IT. THAT IS, THAT IS DEFINITELY AN OPTION. IS THAT HOW, LIKE YOU MIGHT SEE A SIGN IN HONOR OF SOMEBODY, AN INTERSECTION OR A ONE OF THOSE SMALL, LIKE A SMALL BRIDGE OVER A HIGHWAY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? YES, YES. SO, SO A LOT OF 'EM ARE, ARE SMALL SIGNS, UM, AT AN INTERSECTION. AND THEN THOSE ARE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF GARNERED BY HYPERLOCAL COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND THEN GOES TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION, UM, AS A RECOMMENDATION FROM, UH, FROM THE, THE [00:45:01] DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR. I MAY BE JUMPING AHEAD. IT WAS ALL WAY . NO, NO, IT'S, IT, IT, IT IS FINE. LIKE WE WERE, WE WERE KIND OF LOOKING, LOOKING AT OPTIONS AND, AND TO BE HONEST, THE HONORARY STREET MARKERS WAS SOMETHING THAT I DISCOVERED, UM, WHILE WE WERE KIND OF WORKING THESE STAFF PROCESSES. YEAH, BECAUSE I MEAN, I MEAN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT SAME RENAME AND I'M NOT SURE THAT WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT RENAMING STREETS. I THINK WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS SUPERIMPOSING ON STREETS, YOU KNOW, WHICH SOUNDS LIKE IF WE CAN GET RID OF THAT BLOCK LIMITATION, MAYBE. YEAH, THEY DO THIS WITH THE . THEY NAME, THEY HAVE MEMORIAL HIGHWAY SIGN UP AND DOESN'T CHANGE I 10. IT DOESN'T CHANGE. I, BUT THAT STRETCH OF ROAD IS NAMED FOR THAT INDIVIDUAL. LIKE IT'S NOT, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S CRAZY. LIKE IT'S NOT A, NOT NEW. NO ONE CALLS 59, THE LLOYD BENSON HIGHWAY CALLS IT I 69 EITHER. THEY STILL CALL IT 59. MAKES NO SENSE. YEAH. AND, UM, SO FOR, FOR EXECUTIVE ORDER, ONE DASH FOUR NINE. UM, THERE, THERE IS A SET OF, OF ASSESSMENT CRITERIA, UM, YOU KNOW, GEOGRAPHY APPROPRIATENESS, UM, EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY, AND THEN A WELL-DEFINED CONNECTION ASSOCIATED BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL'S CONTRIBUTIONS AND THE CITY FACILITY. AND THEN AFTER ASSESSMENT, SO KIND OF WHERE WE ARE, UM, LIKE STAFF PRESENTS FINDINGS, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE COLLECTS PUBLIC COMMENT AND PROVIDES A RECOMMENDATION, UM, FOR CONSIDERATION BY CITY COUNCIL. SO WE ARE, WE ARE BEGINNING THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. UM, WE DO HAVE A, A DRAFT STAFF PROPOSAL. I DID SEND IT OUT VIA EMAIL, UM, RIGHT BEFORE THE MEETING AND I'LL RESEND IT AGAIN. UM, AND THEN WE WILL ALSO HAVE IT POSTED ON THE LET'S TALK HOUSTON PAGE WHEN WE LAUNCH IT, UM, JUST AS A REFERENCE, BUT OF NOTE, LIKE THE OFFICIAL RESPONSE IN THE OFFICIAL REPORT WILL NOT PUBLISH UNTIL AFTER THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS COMPLETE, BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE ACKNOWLEDGING PUBLIC COMMENTS AND UTILIZING THAT IN OUR ANALYSIS. UM, SO WHEN, WHEN WE DID THE, UH, WHEN STAFF DID THE, THE INITIAL ANALYSIS, UM, KIND OF GOING THROUGH THE CRITERIA, UM, FOR APPROPRIATENESS, UM, THE LIKE STAFF WHO DO NOT CONCUR, UM, WITH THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST TO NAME THE ENTIRE CORRIDOR, UM, BUT WE DID CONCUR WITHIN NAMING THE CORRIDOR WITHIN MONTROSE. UM, AND THE REASON WHY IS THAT WE, WE FOUND A WELL-DEFINED CONNECTION BETWEEN PAT WALSH AND NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE HE RESIDED, BUT DID NOT FIND ONE CURRENTLY WITHIN NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE HE DID NOT, UM, THE PAT WASH BIKEWAY WILL INTERSECT OR BORDER SEVEN SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS OF VARYING COMPOSITIONS. UM, AND SO LIKE SIX WOULD HAVE STREETS BEARING, BEARING HIS NAME SO THAT, UH, WHERE HE DID NOT LIVE. UM, ADDITIONALLY, UM, A LOT OF THE BIKEWAYS THAT WERE IN THE INITIAL NAMING, UM, DID NOT EXIST. AND ONE DASH FOUR SEVEN, UM, IS FOR EXISTING AND NEW FACILITIES AND NOT ANYTHING PROPOSED, UM, OR NOTHING OR, OR NOT, THINGS THAT DON'T EXIST YET. UM, SO FOR EXAMPLE, SOME OF THE SEGMENTS THAT GO THROUGH W RICE UNIVERSITY AND THE MEDICAL CENTER ARE PRIVATE, PRIVATELY OWNED. UM, AND WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY COMMUNICATIONS WITH THEM ABOUT ADDING ANY BIKEWAYS, UM, OR HAVING THEM IN THE BIKE PLAN. UM, AND THEN ALSO SOME OF THE CONNECTIONS, UM, ARE LOW COMFORT FACILITIES THAT THERE IS NO PLAN TO RETROGRADE OR BUILD IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. UM, SO THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION, UM, IS FOCUSING ON FACILITIES THAT EXIST NOW. UM, FOR THE OTHER ASSESSMENT CRITERIA, WHEN IT CAME TO EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND A WELL-DEFINED CONNECTION BETWEEN, UH, PAT'S CONTRIBUTIONS AND THE CITY FACILITY, UM, STAFF OVERWHELMINGLY, UM, SAID YES, CONCUR. UM, NOT ONLY IS IT APPROPRIATE BECAUSE, UM, PAT WALSH, UH, USHERED IN, UH, THE HOUSTON BIKE PLAN, SO IT WAS VERY APPROPRIATE TO NAME A BICYCLE FACILITY AFTER HIM. UM, WE ALSO DID FIND THAT EVEN IN HIS SHORT TIME HERE, HE, HIS WORK WAS EXCEPTIONAL ENOUGH TO INVOKE THIS RULE MOST OF THE TIME IN EXECUTIVE ORDER. ONE DASH FOUR SEVEN IS INVOKED. IT IS FOR PEOPLE, UM, WHO HAVE BEEN CITY EMPLOYEES FOR 20, 25, 30 PLUS YEARS. UM, AND IT IS IN THE TEST TO, UM, HIS WORK THAT LIKE HE WAS ABLE TO DO SOMETHING SO EXCEPTIONAL JUST WITHIN THE [00:50:01] SHORT TIME HE WAS HERE. UM, AND THEN, UH, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, WITH HIM WORKING ON THE BIKE PLAN AND MOVING THE BIKE PLAN FORWARD, ABSOLUTELY NAMING THE TRAIL AFTER THE CURRENT STAFF ALTERNATIVE IS TO NAME THE SEGMENT OF OUR WOODHEAD, UM, HIGH COMFORT SHARED BIKEWAY FROM VASSAR STREET TO WESTHEIMER ROAD, THE PASS WALK, PAT WALSH, BIKEWAY. UM, AND YOU KNOW, KIND OF CALLING BACK TO THE INITIAL ASSESSMENT, UM, THIS BIKEWAY IS AN EXISTING FACILITY, LIKE IT'S ALREADY BUILT, IT IS ALREADY HIGH COMFORT. SO WE ARE NOT, UM, WE WE'RE NOT RUNNING INTO THE ISSUE OF, OF NAMING THINGS THAT WE DON'T HAVE YET AS FAR AS BIKEWAYS. AND THEN ALSO THE, THE, THE GREATEST CONNECTION, UM, IS FROM PAT WALSH AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF MONTROSE, WHERE HE LIVED IN AND WHERE HIS FAMILY CURRENTLY RESIDES. DO YOU WANT QUESTIONS AT THE END OR IN THE MIDDLE? UM, AT, AT THE, 'CAUSE I'M, I'VE GOT ONE, I'VE GOT ONE SLIDE LEFT. AND I, I WANNA BOOK CHAIR PRIVILEGE AND GO FIRST AND . SO TODAY, UM, 7 24 WE'RE, UH, JULY 24 WE'RE OPENING OUR PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. SO THIS SLIDE DECK IS GOING TO BE A PART OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT PACKAGE. UM, WE ARE GONNA HOST A PAGE ON LET'S TALK HOUSTON, UM, WITH A FORUM, UM, TO ALLOW FOR, UM, FORUM COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS, THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, ALTHOUGH EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE DASH FOUR SEVEN, UM, ONE REQUIRES A MINIMUM OF 30 DAYS, A 30 DAY PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, WE ARE OPENING UP A 60 DAY COMMENT PERIOD. UM, BECAUSE YOUR WRONG, YOUR MASK WRONG. YEAH. IT'S 45 DAYS. OH, 45. OH, BASED ON THE CALENDAR OR YOU HAVE THE LONG DATE. IT'S TECHNICALLY 46 DAYS, BUT IT'S 45 DAYS BETWEEN THE 24TH AND THE EIGHTH. WOW. OKAY. YOU GOT BABY BRAINS. OKAY. AS I, I, I, I APOLOGIZE, , I APOLOGIZE. SO YES, WE ARE, WE HAVE 40, 45 DAYS. UM, SO WE'LL HAVE, WE'LL HAVE A PAGE UP ON, ON, LET'S TALK TO YOU SINCE, AND IT'S IN DRAFT FORM NOW. UM, BUT THEN ALSO JUST THE, THE OTHER WAYS WHERE, WHERE THE PUBLIC IS ABLE TO INTERACT WITH, UH, THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING TEAM, UM, AND THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE THROUGH OUR MOBILITY PLAN, EMAIL, BIKE, WASTE EMAIL, AND THE BAC EMAIL IS OTHER WAYS THAT WE WILL GATHER PUBLIC COMMENTS AND THEN ALSO VIA PHONE AND ALL THE CONTACT INFORMATION WILL BE ON THE, LET'S TALK TO YOU. PAGE FORUM IS LOCKED IN RO PEREZ. SO WE NOW HAVE FORUM, UM, THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD WILL CLOSE, UM, AT THE END OF SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, SO 11:59 PM UM, AND THEN THAT NEXT MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH, UM, WILL BEGIN STAFF REVIEW OF PUBLIC COMMENTS AND THEN, UH, THE PUBLICATION OF THE FINAL REPORT. AND THEN, UH, STAFF WILL COME BACK OCTOBER, UM, ON THE 23RD TO THE, THE BAC MEETING TO PRESENT, UH, THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY AS WELL AS THE FINAL REPORT, UM, AS ANOTHER WAY TO, UM, PUBLICLY SHOW THE RESULTS. UM, AND THEN FROM THERE, UH, FORWARD ALL OF THE FINAL MATERIALS TO THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, FOR THEM TO CONSIDER THE, THE NAME. ALRIGHT, UH, COUPLE COMMENTS IN THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. UM, FIRST OF ALL, AS FAR AS GEOGRAPHY GOES, I MEAN, YEAH, I MEAN MAYBE HE LIVED IN, YOU KNOW, MONTROSE, THAT'S WHERE HIS FAMILY IS, BUT HIS IMPACT WAS CITYWIDE IF NOT WIDER. SO I THINK GEOGRAPHY, I THINK THE ORIGINAL SCOPE CERTAINLY FITS THAT. SO I I, I'M, I'M NOT BUYING THE GEOGRAPHY ARGUMENT, UH, FROM STAFF. UM, SECONDLY, AS FAR AS, UH, YOU KNOW, THE ROUTES TO INCLUDE AND SO FORTH, YEAH, I, I UNDERSTAND THE, THE CONCERNS ABOUT INCORPORATING PARTS OR STREETS THAT ARE NOT PART OF, UH, THE BIKE WAVE PLAN. BIKE PLAN OR CERTAINLY ONES THAT AREN'T SAFE. SO I, I WOULD LEAVE THAT TO OTHERS, BUT THERE CERTAINLY ARE A NUMBER OF BIKEWAYS WITHIN THAT ORIGINAL, UM, SCOPE THAT ARE DONE IN OUR HIGH COMFORT. AND THERE'S SOME THAT ARE COMING PRETTY, PRETTY SOON AS I'M, I'M THINKING IN PARTICULAR GOING NORTH FROM THE CURRENT SCOPE REALLY PRETTY MUCH ALL THE WAY THROUGH. ALTHOUGH PATTERSON'S NOT DONE YET, I UNDERSTAND THAT ACTUALLY IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE AN UPDATE, BUT THAT, THAT COMES TO THE NEXT PART. , [00:55:01] . SO THAT, THAT'S MY COMMENTS FOR NOW. UM, BUT, AND FOR THAT I PROBABLY, YOU HAVE SOME THOUGHTS. ME, ME, I NEED HELP BECAUSE I LOOKED AT YOUR MAP AND I HEARD YOUR WORDS AND I FELT LIKE I WAS WITH YOU WITH YOUR WORDS, BUT THEN I LOOKED AT THE MAP AND I GOT CONFUSED. SO I I, TO TOM'S POINT ABOUT MAYBE LIKE IF WE COULD OFFICIALLY MAKE THIS THE FIRST SEGMENT OF THE PAT WALSH BIKE WAY, BECAUSE THIS IS THE PART THAT, OKAY, THAT'S COOL, RIGHT? AND MONTROSE SOUNDS RIGHT. HE, PAT LIVED IN MONTROSE, THE MONCHO SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD HAS SIGNED ON HIS ONBOARD, ALL OF THAT WAS GOOD. MONTROSE GOES FROM 59 TO BUFFALO BAYOU. AND THEN I GOT TO YOUR MAP AND WE'RE ONLY LOOKING AT THE BOTTOM HALF. THAT STOPS AT WESTHEIMER. AND MY KIDS WALKED THAT STREET TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY AND THE BIKEWAY ABSOLUTELY GOES NORTH OF THAT. SO I GUESS I, IS IT POSSIBLE WE HAVE A CLERICAL ERROR ON OUR MAP THAT WE MEANT TO HAVE THE WHOLE MONTROSE SEGMENT? I, I SORRY IF, SO, I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH MARGARET WALLACE BROWN, WHO IS NO LONGER HERE. I THINK THERE'S AN ISSUE WITH SOME MAP SOMEWHERE BECAUSE SHE TOLD ME THE BIKE PLAN STOPS AT WESTHEIMER NO BIKE PLAN OR THE, THE WOODHEAD MICRO. WELL, SHE TOLD ME. AND, AND SO I TOLD HER, LOOK, I LIVE THERE LIKE IT KEEPS GOING. YES. SO WHEN THIS WAS DEVELOPED, AND SHE DID THIS, THIS WAS LIKE THREE DAYS BEFORE SHE RETIRED SORT OF THING. OKAY. SO I NEVER GOT CLARITY AS TO WHAT MATH THEY WERE. 'CAUSE SHE INSISTED, SORRY, I MEAN THIS VERY KINDLY TO HER. YES. SHE WAS TELLING, AND I HOLD IT UP ON THE WEBSITE AND I WAS LIKE, I ALSO LIVE THERE. UM, BUT SHE WAS INSIST, SHE SAID THAT THE BIKE WEEK DOESN'T STOP. SO I, MY COMMENT WAS, I WOULD LOVE MORE, I WOULD LOVE MORE. PAT WAS BIG, BOLD AND WONDERFUL. I'LL TAKE ALL OF IT, BUT COULD WE GET A PORTION THAT AT LEAST FULFILL, OUR SON GOES TO BAKER ELEMENTARY, YOUR KIDS WORK IT LIKE SOMETHING THAT, SO LET, LET ME, LET ME DRAG THIS BACK. SO I THINK THERE'S A MAP SOMEWHERE WHO HERE IN DID SOMEONE DREW FROM A DATA SET THAT WAS PERHAPS OUT OF DATE AND THAT IN OUR NAMING PROPOSAL, WE SHOULD BE NAMING THE THING THAT THE TURS FINISHED AND ALREADY BUILT THE WHOLE PIECE OF IT. THAT THAT, AND I WOULD OFFER THAT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO STAFF'S PROPOSED RECOMMENDATION TO GO AHEAD AND NAME THE WHOLE PIECE THAT'S BUILT AS A FIRST PHASE. AND, AND I THINK YES, AND I THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR FOR THOSE OF US WHO RIDE REGULARLY THAT YOU CAN RIDE ALONG THE NEWLY IMPROVED WOODHEAD, RIGHT? ALL THE WAY UP TO CLAY, I BELIEVE. YES, YES. MM-HMM . AND THEN PASS THE KROGER FOR SURE. . YEAH. AND, AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE, THE WOODHEAD PROJECT WAS DONE, UM, AS A MONTROSE TOURIST PROJECT IN TANDEM WITH HAWTHORNE STREET, WHICH IS ALSO IN MONTROSE. I REALIZE THIS IS A ORIGINALLY PROPOSED AS A NORTH SOUTH BIKEWAY, BUT HAWTHORNE STREET AND, AND WOODHEAD INTERSECT, AND IF MONTROSE IS THE NEXUS, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE, IF WE WANTED MORE, IT MADE SENSE TO INCLUDE THAT SORT OF SIDEWAYS T UM, I'M JUST, I DON'T WANNA GET AHEAD OF US. I'M JUST SORT OF THROWING THAT OUT THERE AS UM, POSSIBLY IT, IT EXISTS AND IT WAS DONE AS PART OF THE SAME PROJECT AND IT'S IN MANTRA. SO IF IT'S ABOUT GEOGRAPHY, UM, AND APPROPRIATE AND, AND LIKE HIGH COMFORT IN EXISTENCE. YEAH. RIGHT. YEAH. AND IT ALSO ENDS RIGHT AT LINEAR, THE CENTER. YEAH. SO THE FIRST PHASE WOULD BE THE MANTRA SEGMENT. I WOULD THINK. I'M TAKING NOTES, PLEASE. , AND I THINK WE ALREADY ADDRESSED THIS EARLIER IN YOUR PRESENTATION, BUT IT'S AN OVERLAY. IT'S NOT A RENAMING, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S IN THE OTHER CITIES HAVE BIKE ROUTE ONE OR BIKE ROUTE TWO OR WHATEVER THAT FOLLOWS CERTAIN STREETS IN THE CITY, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THERE'S OTHER, I MEAN, NATIONALLY THERE'S US BIKE ROUTES THAT GO ON TRAILS AND HIGHWAYS AND EVERYTHING. IT'S AN OVERLAY. SO I I I THINK AGAIN, WHERE THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE, AND WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THIS, I MEAN, LET'S GET AWAY YOU GUYS LOOK INTO WHAT YOU NEED TO CHANGE ON THE ONE BLOCK LIMITATION AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO ON THAT. I MEAN, I, DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE THEIR HANDS UP? OTHERWISE I'M GONNA PRESS ON, I I'VE ALREADY HAD ONE REQUEST FOR LEGAL. LIKE, I, CAN WE GO A STEP FURTHER BETWEEN NOW AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING NEXT MONTH? [01:00:01] IS THAT ENOUGH TIME TO REQUEST FOR, I DON'T KNOW IF IT NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER EXECUTIVE ORDER OR MAYBE THERE'S A PIECE WHERE IT'S A PLANNING DEVELOPMENT PROCEDURE, LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT FOR THIS OTHER PIECE THAT IS SPECIFIC TO THIS IDEA OF CREATING NAMING OVERLAYS. WE'RE NOT RENAMING ANYTHING, BUT WE'RE BASIC. IT'S LIKE, IT'S ALMOST LIKE WAY FINDING THAT MAKES THE NETWORK LEGIBLE BECAUSE THERE IS CLARITY AND SAFETY AND HAVING A LEGIBLE NETWORK WORK. AND THE CITY NEEDS A MECHANISM FOR DOING THAT, THAT ISN'T ASKING YOU TO DO BACK FLIPS AND WEIRD STUFF WITH AN OLD EXECUTIVE ORDER. RIGHT. THAT, THAT WE SHOULD REASONABLY ANTICIPATE THIS IS GONNA COME UP AGAIN. AND MAYBE THEY NEED MORE THAN A MONTH, BUT IF WE COULD GIVE THEM, IF WE COULD DO LEGAL THE REQUEST. YEAH, I'LL, I'LL KIND OF DEFER TO, TO YOU BRIAN. UM, I'M LISTENING. I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO, TO SAY THAT I WAS AUTHORIZED TO BE ON JUST LISTENING AT THIS POINT. YEAH. AND THAT THE ADMINISTRATION CURRENTLY SUPPORTS THIS RECOMMENDATION. SO THEY DO, THEY DO, YEAH. THE, THE MODIFIED RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. YEAH. COOL. AND, AND PART OF, AND, AND I WASN'T GONNA SAY ANYTHING 'CAUSE TECHNICALLY IT'S NOT MY ROLE IN THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, BUT I WAS IN THE ROOM WITH, WITH MARGARET. SO AT LEAST FOR CONTINUITY'S SAKE, UH, THE REASON WHY THIS PARTICULAR STATEMENT WAS CHOSEN, CAN YOU TAKE THE, THE MAP BACK UP? UM, WHAT WAS CLEARLY IT, IT IS ON VASSAR STREET. THAT'S THE START OF THE HIGH COMFORT FACILITY, RIGHT? AND TRAVELING NORTH, IT GOES THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT PAT LAST RESIDED IN BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY. AND THEN, UH, THE WESTHEIMER ROAD IS A LOGICAL, UH, TERMINATION, UH, IN MANY PEOPLE'S MIND IN TERMS OF BEING SIMILAR TO A BLOCK. 'CAUSE WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION WAS GRAPPLING WITH AT THE TIME IS THAT FOR HONORARY OVERLAYS OR HONORARY STREET NAMES, WE'VE GOT THAT BLOCK MENTALITY, BUT WE WERE VERY CLEAR AND THE ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTED THAT A BLOCK DOES NOT MAKE SENSE FOR THIS. OKAY. AND INSTEAD OF LIKE FROM INTERSECTION TO INTERSECTION, IT REALLY HAS TO BE FROM START TO MAJOR OR NOTEWORTHY INTERSECTION. 'CAUSE AT ONE POINT IT WAS GOING TO STOP AT HAW LONG STREET BECAUSE THAT IS A T INTERSECTION. UH, BUT IT MADE NO SENSE BECAUSE WESTHEIMER WAS JUST ONE BLOCK OR EVEN HALF A BLOCK NORTH. YEAH. SO FROM THE ADMINISTRATION'S POSITION WAS, LET'S NAME IT FROM, ITS, ITS START SOUTHERN, START ALL THE WAY UP TO WESTHEIMER. AND THAT RIGHT THERE IS THE CONCEPTUAL EQUIVALENT TO AN HONORARY STREET NAME, WHICH IS WHAT WE HAD ON THE BOOKS CURRENTLY. NOW I KNOW IN THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION AT THE TAIL END OF IT, THERE WAS SOME IDEAS BEING TOSSED AROUND FOR CREATING A UNIQUE, UM, UH, NAMING EXECUTIVE ORDER OR SOME KIND OF POLICY. UM, THAT HAS NOT BEEN DISCUSSED TO MY KNOWLEDGE UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION. I CAN'T SPEAK OF WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S AN APPETITE FOR IT. UH, BUT I, I WOULD PROBABLY JUST THE REALISTIC SIDE OF ME WOULD CAUTION THAT IT'S PROBABLY UNLIKELY WE WOULD BE ABLE TO GET THAT IN, IN UH, 30 TO 45 DAYS. UM, BUT AS THE EAC CONTINUES ITS WORK, I THINK THERE PROBABLY IS SOME VALUE FROM A POLICY STANDPOINT TO LOOK AT WHAT THE PARKS DEPARTMENT DOES FOR THEIR NAMING FACILITY AND TRY TO BRING OFF STREET AND ON STREET AT LEAST INTO SOME KIND OF LOGICAL ALLIANCE. UM, BUT I, IF IT'S OKAY TO GIVE ANOTHER PIECE OF HISTORY AND WHAT IN SOME WAYS WHY, LIKE, THIS IS A VERY CORNY TOPIC IS THERE WAS ORIGINALLY FIVE YEAR FIVE, SO PAT DIED FIVE AND A HALF YEARS AGO. SO ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO. THERE'S A PROPOSAL THAT GOT PRETTY FAR ALONG TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT WOULD FALL MORE SQUARELY INTO THE FACILITY. UM, AND DALE ICK, DIRECTOR OF , WHO WAS ONE OF BAD PAT'S BEST FRIENDS, WAS VERY, HIS VIEW OF IT WAS HE WANTED TO GO DOWN THIS PATHWAY BECAUSE HIS VIEW WAS THAT IF CITY, HE'S A BIG PAIN IN THE BUTT TO GET CITY COUNCIL TO DO ANYTHING, WHICH MEANS IT'S A BIG PAIN IN THE BUTT TO DO SOMETHING TO CHANGE WHAT CITY COUNCIL DID. SO THAT'S WHY THAT PROJECT, AND I THINK WHY THIS KIND OF WENT TO THE THING IS THAT IF YOU JUST HAVE THE BAC VOTE, WE CAN UNANIMOUSLY DECLARE SOMETHING AND THEN NEXT WEEK THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION CAN BE OVERDONE CITY. SO I MEAN, IT, IT'S, IT IS A TENSION HERE. SO THAT'S HOW I THINK WE GOT TO THIS A LITTLE BIT IS DALE REALLY, WHICH I SUPPORTED, WHICH IS DOING SOMETHING CITY COUNCIL, RECOGNIZING IT HAS SOME, SOME MEANING TO IT WITH THE, UH, PARKS DEPARTMENT, THE IDEA OF INCORPORATING THE PARK AS, UH, HAVING, UH, THAT AREA AS A [01:05:01] ANCHOR HEAD, UH, CONDUCTED ALONG ALSO 'CAUSE OF THAT PROCEDURE MIGHT EASIER LOT FASTER. SO YOU CAN LET THAT BE ENTRY BY A CERTAIN POINT, UH, ALONG THE TRAIL AND LET IT GO OUT, LET IT GO OUT THERE. ALSO WANT TO MENTION THAT THERE'S A POSSIBILITY OF A STATE HISTORICAL MARKER UH, WELL, NOT HISTORICAL MARKER, BUT A STATE, UM, IT'S NOT A HISTORICAL, THERE'S A HISTORICAL MARKER AND THEN THERE'S A RECOGNITION MARKER STATE ALSO THAT WOULD GIVE SOME ENCOURAGEMENT TO ONE CITY COUNCIL TO PUSH ALONG, TO PUSH ALONG THERE ALSO. SO TO, I'M SORRY, IF I CAN JUST INTERJECT AND BECAUSE WE'VE WORKED SO HARD ON THIS, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH WHAT ROBIN'S SAYING. THAT BEING SAID, I WILL DEFER WHAT LINDSAY WANTS ON THIS, ULTIMATELY, GIVEN HOW DIFFICULT THIS HAS BEEN JUST TO GET TO THIS POINT. OKAY. SECOND, HOW DIFFICULT THINGS ARE UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION FOR THIS STUFF. I'M REALLY WORRIED ABOUT IF WE TRY TO GO FOR THE LONGER RUN, AND I HEARD WHAT BRIAN SAID, THAT THAT'S PROBABLY NOT GONNA GO FORWARD, BUT THIS IS AT RISK FOR DISSOLVING. I, I WANT TO CLARIFY. I DIDN'T SAY THAT. LIKE, I THINK THAT THE ADMINISTRATION RESPECTS PUBLIC INPUT. UM, I, I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR THAT RIGHT NOW WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN IS WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAS VOICE SUPPORT. UM, SO I, I, I CAN'T, SO I SAY THAT ACTUALLY IS REALLY HELPFUL. THIS IS NOT JUST A PLANNING DEPARTMENT MOMENT. IT'S THE ADMINISTRATION HAS ALREADY BEEN CONSULTED ON THIS. CORRECT. AND CAN YOU SAY THAT ? NO. YES. THE ADMINISTRATION, LET ME JUST BE FRANK. THE MAYOR WAS TOLD ABOUT THIS. I WASN'T THE ONE THAT DID IT, BUT, UH, CHIEF OF STAFF NEWPORT WAS IN THAT MEETING. SO I'M GETTING MY INSTRUCTIONS FROM HIM. THE BIKEWAY IS ONE WAY THAT THE CITY IS LOOKING TO HONOR PAT WALSH. AND THEN IN THIS PARTICULAR FORMAT UP HERE, FOR THE SAKE OF, UM, KIND OF A HOLISTIC VIEW OF WHAT THE CITY'S LOOKING AT, UM, JUST PRIOR TO, UM, CHANGES IN THE MONTROSE BOARD, UH, THE ADMINISTRATION DID VOICE SUPPORT FOR A, I DON'T WANNA CALL IT A BENCH 'CAUSE IT'S MORE THAN A BENCH, BUT A A A KIND OF LIKE A SMALL PLAZA AREA IN MANDEL PARK. UM, UH, THAT WOULD BE, UH, WITH TUR FUNDING AND SOME OTHER OPTIONS THAT WOULD ALSO HAVE PAT'S NAME. SO KIND OF IT WAS A ONE TWO PACKAGE IN, IN THE ADMINISTRATION'S MIND. SO JUST TO GIVE YOU GUYS A COMPLETE VIEW OF WHAT I'VE BEEN AUTHORIZED TO GO FORWARD AND WORK, NOT, SO DO YOU WANT TO GO FOR THE LONGER LINE OR WHAT WE'VE GOT, WE HAVE A FISHER UPDATE SORT OF DECISION. I'M NOT DAYS. WELL, I WAS GONNA SAY, I MEAN, I GUESS I WOULD LOVE FOR EVERYONE TO GIVE THEIR INPUT AND, AND I THINK THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT LETTERS HAVE DONE IT. I WOULD HOPE THAT IF, IF THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED MORE, BUT PLANNING AND THE MAYOR DIDN'T GIVE US MORE, THAT'S FINE. THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE, THAT'S WHY IF COMMUNITY, COMMUNITY COMMENTARY, I WOULD, I WOULD ASSUME THAT IF EVERYONE SUPPORTED IT BIGGER, THE CITY WOULDN'T SAY YOU GET NOTHING I DON'T FORESEE THAT HAPPENING. YEAH. BUT I MEAN, JUST LIKE, IT WOULD BE A STRANGE, IT WOULD BE A STRANGE OUTCOME THAT EVERYONE SUPPORTED SOMETHING BIGGER AND YOU GOT SO, I MEAN, I THINK EVERYONE, I DON'T THINK, AND IT IS WORTH REITERATING WHAT BRIAN SAID EARLIER. THIS IS, I LIKE SAYING BRIAN TOO . IT'S A TWO BRIAN, UH, ITEM. UH, THIS IS THE VERY FIRST ON STREET, UH, BIKE NAME. SO THIS IS KIND OF UNCHARTED TERRITORY FOR THE CITY. SO WE AS WELL ARE LEARNING AS WE GO ALONG. SO, UM, I, I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE PUBLIC INPUT. THIS ADMINISTRATION CARES A LOT ABOUT THAT. AND OF COURSE TRANSPARENCY. SO I'M TRYING TO BE AS TRANSPARENT AS I CAN WITH THE INFORMATION THAT I'VE BEEN AUTHORIZED TO SAY. ONE, ONE MORE QUICK FOLLOW UP QUESTION ON MECHANICS. AS SOMEBODY WHO'S A SURVIVOR OF 11TH STREET, I'VE WORKED ON HOUSTON AVENUE, I NOW MONTROSE BOULEVARD, PAINFULLY RARE, HOW DIFFICULT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR PEOPLE HERE? THIS ALL MAKES SENSE. I CAN, TELLING THE PUBLIC THERE'S A BACKLASH HAPPENING. SO IN TERMS OF THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT THAT HAPPENS, IS THAT JUST SORT OF A PERFUNCTORY EXERCISE? OR DO Y'ALL TALLY WHO'S FOREIGN AGAINST BECAUSE WE'RE ON THE HOOK? 'CAUSE WE'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING THIS, ME AND EMMANUEL AND WHOEVER, UM, TO ENGAGE WITH THE PUBLIC. SO I'M TRYING TO JUST FIGURE OUT WHAT, HOW MUCH WORK WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO. NO. SO, UM, I'M, I'M ALL FOR, UM, I'M, I'M BEHIND DOING AN ACTUAL TALLY, UM, BUT NOT JUST THE ACTUAL TALLY. LIKE WE'VE, WE'VE ALSO KIND OF BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO THE LETTERS OF SUPPORT. SO WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT THERE ARE ALSO LIKE INSTITUTIONAL LETTERS OF SUPPORT AS WELL. UM, SO IN THE, IN THE FINAL STAFF REPORT, LIKE I WANT TO QUANTIFY THAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. UM, SO SO THAT SUPPORT FOR THE PROJECT IS, IS CLEAR. [01:10:01] AND, AND KEVIN, IT'S WORTH NOTING TO YOUR POINT, A LOT OF THE CONVERSATIONS RIGHT NOW ARE WHETHER OR NOT THE FACILITY WAS GOING TO EXIST OR EVEN CONSTRUC. THAT'S NOT THE CASE WITH WOOD THAT HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED TO MY KNOWLEDGE. THERE'S NO EVEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT BEING CHANGED WHATSOEVER. IT'S JUST SOLELY A NAMING EXERCISE, NOT A IS IT SHOULD EXIST OR NOT. SO THERE'S SOME POINT YEAH, WHAT WE EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE ON THIS, 'CAUSE WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO THEM WHAT THEY HEAR, WHICH THEM TO THINGS. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU BRIAN. I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, ROBERT. IF, IF THIS IS ALL WE CAN GET FOR NOW, IS THERE A WAY TO INCORPORATE INTO THE NAME SOMETHING LIKE SEGMENT ONE? SO IT'S CLEAR THAT THIS, THAT'S ONLY THAT THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THIS ROUTE. BECAUSE WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME, WHAT I REALLY LIKE ABOUT THE INITIAL PROPOSAL IS THAT IT SEWS TOGETHER ALL THESE DIFFERENT BIKE WAYS TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT YOU CAN GO FROM MILES AND MILES, HAVE IT WORK SOUTH, RIGHT? AND, AND IF IT COMES TO AN END, UM, SO I GUESS MY RESPONSE IS, I DON'T KNOW. 'CAUSE WHAT WE'LL OFFICIALLY GET ACTED ON BY CITY COUNCIL WILL PROBABLY JUST BE THE, THE CORE NAME. BUT THAT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING I THINK PLANNING DEPARTMENT CAN CONSIDER AND WE CAN BRING IT UP SIMILAR TO THE WAY THAT SHEPHERD WORKING WITH DIFFERENT SEGMENTS. YEAH, YEAH. THAT'S MORE PROJECT NUMBERS AND UNOFFICIAL, WHEREAS THIS WOULD ACTUALLY BE CITY COUNCIL, UM, TAKING AN ACTION TO, TO NAME THE FACILITY. SO I DON'T, WE TYPICALLY DON'T SEE THAT. SO A AGAIN, THIS IS UNCHARTED TERRITORY. WE CAN CERTAINLY BRING IT UP. UM, BUT UM, I SEE SOME SLIGHT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THOSE PARTIES, BUT I DIDN'T HEARD ALL THESE LAWYERS OF SUPPORT WAS HERMAN PARK AMONG THEM. I SAID MEMORIAL. MEMORIAL, YEAH. HER MEMORIAL. YOU KNOW, HERMAN, I'LL, I'LL BE HONEST, UM, I USE MY ROLODEX A LOT OF TIMES. MM-HMM . AND I DON'T HAVE AS GREAT CONTEXT AS HERMAN PARK. OKAY. SO, SO YEAH. SO SHELLY ARNOLD AND OR SHELLY AND TINA ARE GOOD FRIENDS, YOU KNOW, LIKE CHEATED MAYBE A LITTLE BIT. I'LL REACH OUT TO HER. OKAY. , VIRGINIA. YEAH. UH, I JUST WANNA NOTE, UM, TO, TO CAUTION FROM THE NAMING PERSPECTIVE, THE NAME IS GOING TO MATTER IN TERMS OF THE SIGNAGE THAT GETS INSTALLED TO FACILITATE THIS. AND I WOULD CAUTION AND JUST BEFORE YOU MOVE FORWARD WITH OFFICIALLY PROPOSING A SEGMENT ONE OR SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT THE LARGER NETWORK AND GOAL. UM, AND THAT IF SEGMENT ONE, FOR EXAMPLE, IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE, UM, IT ENDS UP BEING A LARGER THING, THEN THAT STARTS TO PERHAPS BECOME A DIFFICULT PUZZLE TO PIECE TOGETHER FOR WAY FINDING PURPOSES. UM, AND THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS SHOULD BE A WAYFINDING TOOL IN ADDITION TO AN HONORARY MARKER. UM, SO JUST THINK ABOUT THAT, THAT IF THE GOAL IS TO EXPAND IT TO SOMETHING LARGER LATER, AND IF IT'S GOING TO HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES FOR THE PIECE, YOU WANT TO KNOW THAT FROM THE BEGINNING. I THINK I'M MEANT MORE IN TERMS OF, UH, UNOFFICIALLY. YEAH. JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THAT PROCESS. RIGHT. I UNDERSTAND. NOT, NOT ON, NOT ON THE SIDE. YEAH. SO NOT NAMING THE PAT WALSH BIKEWAY, BUT INAUGURATING MM-HMM . PATSH WALSH BIKEWAY. MM-HMM . SORRY. SOMETHING. ANOTHER QUESTION WAS THAT Y'ALL THOUGHT ABOUT DURING THIS, UM, COMMENT PERIOD OF ORGANIZING A, A BIKE RIDE THAT THERE, THE STAND OF THE, WE, WE TALKED TO RODNEY ELLIS ACTUALLY ABOUT DOING THAT. UM, WHETHER ISSUES SMALL CHILDREN, LARGE DOGS, ALL THOSE THINGS GET IN THE WAY. BUT YES. AND HAPPY DECOR THE ZOO. I HAVE TO GO TO GET JULIAN AT THE ZOO. CAN. ZOO CAN IS THE WORST. IT GETS OUT REALLY EARLY AND IT'S HARD TO FEED YOUR KIDS TO THE CHEETAHS, I THINK . UM, BUT ROBIN AND JOE AND OTHERS HAVE MY NUMBER. I WOULD LOVE, I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN SAY THIS AT A PUBLIC MEETING, BUT I DON'T WANNA SAY MY NUMBER ON, ON HGV, UM, BUT LOVE TO GET TOGETHER IN STRATEGIES AND TALK ABOUT IT BECAUSE I THINK IT'S PUBLICLY OPEN TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND WE'D LOVE TO BE PART OF THAT. OUR HOUSE IS ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, ON THE WAY. SO WE CAN USE THAT AS THE PARTY STOP BY ROBINS TOO. SO I, SO I, AND I KNOW WE'VE LIKE DERAILED PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT I DO APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S SUPPORT AND HEALTH ON, AND YOUR FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE FOR OUR FAMILY. AND PAT WOULD BE THRILLED AND THANK YOU. YES. VIRGINIA, YOU HAVE ONE MORE? I HAVE ONE OTHER, UM, NOTE. AND THIS MIGHT BE BEST FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE TO, UM, DISCUSS AND, AND POSSIBLY GET A, A, A FUTURE PRESENTATION AGAIN FROM, UM, PUBLIC WORKS. UM, BUT I PRESENTED, UH, SOME MONTHS AGO ABOUT THE UPDATES TO THE DM. THOSE UPDATES INCLUDED, UM, UPDATES TO WAY FINDING STANDARDS. HOWEVER, BECAUSE WE CAN'T THINK OF ALL THINGS AND SOLVE ALL PROBLEMS IN THE FUTURE, IT DID NOT INCLUDE A KIND OF, UH, [01:15:01] STANDARD FORMAT FOR HONORARY MARKERS ON OUR HIGH COMFORT PIPE FACILITIES. AND SO AS THE IDM UPDATE PERIOD OPENS THIS YEAR, WHICH WE DO EXPECT IT TO, UM, SOMETIME IN THE FALL, WE EXPECT IT TO OPEN WITH, WITH POSSIBLE, UM, ADDITIONS OR ALTERATIONS. IT MIGHT BE GOOD TO SEE THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE, UH, RECOMMEND THAT THE IDM GETS UPDATED TO HAVE A STANDARD MARKER FOR THAT. UM, SO THAT AS HONORARY FACILITIES HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, WE CAN BE CONSISTENT WITH HOW WE DO THAT. I FAVORITE CONCRETE OLISS WE HAVE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT WE LOST IN ONE . SO STILL ROLLING. HOLD ON. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT TURNED INTO A NOTE FOR WHEN WE COME BACK IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE NEXT MONTH. COULD THERE BE A, A SIMPLE ITEM WHERE WE'RE PROPOSING THE, THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE SUBMITS A FORMAL COMMENT TO THE STANDARD TO, TO THE PUBLIC OR STANDARDS REVIEW COMMITTEE REQUESTING THEY ESTABLISH A DESIGN STANDARD FOR BIKE WAY, WAY FINDING FOR SPECIFICALLY THE HONORARY MARKERS. FOR HONORARY, WE HAVE A STANDARD FOR WAYFIND. OKAY. SO FOR HONORARY, FOR HONORARY MARKERS, RIGHT? MM-HMM . GOTCHA. THANK YOU. WE TO MOVE ON? YES. UM, DID WE LOSE QUORUM OR IS OH YEAH. AND I'M, AND I NEED TO LEAVE IN LIKE 12 MINUTES. SO WE SHOULD VOTE ON SOME STUFF REAL QUICK. WHY DON'T WE DO THE VOTING THING? OKAY. SO FIRST, UH, APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. WOULD ANYONE MOVE TO APPROVE MINUTES? I MOVE FOR APPROVAL. ALRIGHT. DR. V MOVES A SECOND. SECOND. JOE. SECONDS. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? WE'RE GOOD. RIGHT? AND NOW VOTE FOR THE VICE CHAIR. DO WE HAVE ANY NOMINEES? THROW MY BUCKET IN THE HAT. . WORRY ABOUT IT'S ALRIGHT. IT'S THE FUMES. YEAH. I TAKE IT. THAT MEANS YOU'RE IN. YES. OKAY. SO I HEARD ALEJANDRO NOMINATE AND DOUG, ME SECOND. YEAH. ALL IN FAVOR? WAIT, ANY DISCUSSIONS? OH, OKAY. LET'S NO, GO AHEAD. NO, I, I DON'T WANT IT TO LOOK LIKE WE RAILROADED ANYTHING. HE LOOKS EXCITED TO BE THERE. SO I DON'T THINK, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THE DELEGATES. ALL ALL. NOW WE CAN VOTE. LET'S TAKE A VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? ALRIGHT. CONGRATULATIONS. YAY. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. OKAY. UP NEXT. QUARTERLY UPDATES. SO SOME OF THESE WILL BE FAST AND FURIOUS. UM, JUST KIND OF DUE TO WHAT, WHAT I'VE ALREADY BEEN SAYING ABOUT KIND OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. SO SOME OF THIS ISN'T GONNA BE NEW. UM, SO, BUT FOR BIKE WOOD FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES, WE DID RECEIVE AN UPDATE FROM HPD. UM, AND AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE ARE TRENDING LESS THAN WHAT WE HAVE IN THE PAST AS FAR AS, UH, BICYCLIST, UH, FATALITIES, UM, E-BIKES IS KIND OF WHERE WE WERE THIS TIME LAST YEAR. UM, UNFORTUNATELY, UM, I MEAN ALTHOUGH WE'VE ONLY GOT FOUR TOTAL FOR STILL, UM, TOO MUCH. IT'S INTERESTING THE DAY OR NINTH THING THERE. I'M GLAD THAT YOU ALL ARE KEEPING TRACK OF THAT BECAUSE THIS YEAR MAY BE DIFFERENT, BUT IT SEEMED LIKE IN THE PRIOR YEARS, AN AWFUL LOT OF IT HAD BEEN AT NINE. MAYBE MY MEMORY OFF PROBABLY SEEMS LIKE THAT'S BEEN THE CASE. AND THEN, UH, THESE ARE JUST THE, UH, TOTAL CRASHES, UM, PER, UM, POLICE PRECINCT OR DIVISION POLICE DIVISION. SO THIS INCLUDES THE SERIOUS CRASHES AS WELL AS THE FATAL CRASHES. MM-HMM . UM, AND, UH, I BELIEVE IT HAS LIKE ALL THE, THE MINORS, UM, AS WELL. SO THIS IS JUST A OKAY. AN ABSOLUTE TOTAL. SO DO WE HAVE A WAY TO COMPARE TO LAST YEAR? I KNOW WE DO WITH DESK, WE HAVE THE YEAR DATE, TOTAL YEAR OVER YEAR. IS THERE A WAY TO COMPARE TO LAST YEAR AS FAR AS NUMBER OF INCIDENTS OR WHATEVER? YEAH. UM, JUST OUTTA CURIOSITY, NO. SO, AND, AND WHAT WE COULD DO, SO SIMILAR TO HOW, UM, HPD PROVIDES US KIND OF THE YEAR TO DATE, UM, FOR BICYCLISTS AND E-BIKES, UM, I CAN ASK THEM TO DO THE SAME, UM, AT LEAST FOR, AT LEAST FOR LIKE THE TOTALS. UM, AND THEN I CAN ALSO, I'LL MAKE A, I'LL MAKE A NOTE WHEN I SEND, UM, [01:20:01] THE SLIDES AND STUFF OUT. I'LL PULL THIS DATA FROM THE JULY 20, 23 BAC MEETING JUST TO KIND OF HAVE AS A REFERENCE IN THE INTERIM. THAT BE GREAT. YEAH, I THINK THERE'S SOME PEOPLE COULD PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, PAT THEMSELVES IN THE BACK 'CAUSE THE NUMBER OF FATALITIES ARE DOWN. BUT, YOU KNOW, MOST INCIDENTS INVOLVING CARS AND CYCLISTS OR PEDESTRIANS, THEY COULD BE LIFE CHANGING. YOU KNOW, THE INCIDENT WALLER, THERE'S A WOMAN WHO WAS AN IRON MAP AND SHE WAS SLATED FOR, AND SHE NO LONGER WILL EVER COMPETE IN IRONMAN AGAIN. AND SO THE EMOTIONAL TOLL OF THOSE INCIDENTS IS MUCH LARGER THAN JUST THE NUMBER OF EXCEL SPREADSHEET. ON THAT NOTE, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? MAJOR TECHNICAL? UM, I THINK IT'S, UH, I THINK IT MIGHT BE THE LEVEL OF HOSPITALIZATION. UM, BUT I'M NOT DISABILITY. THE DAMAGE? YEAH, I'M, I'M NOT 100%. UM, THAT I CAN'T ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, BUT, UM, WE HAVE A VOLUNTEER WHO TRACKS THESE THINGS AND WE LEARNED THAT THE NUMBER OF, UH, CRASHES INVOLVING INJURY OR DEATH, UM, TOTAL THIS YEAR IS COMPARABLE TO THE NUMBER OF CRASHES WE JUST GOT LUCKY THAT THE PEOPLE LUCKY SO TO SPEAK, THAT THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THESE CRASHES HAVE BEEN INJURED AND SERIOUSLY INJURED AND NOT KILLED, WHEREAS LAST YEAR NOR HAPPENED TO TIES. SO WE'RE STILL SEEING THE SAME LEVEL OF PEOPLE BEING HIT BY AUTOMOBILE WITH WITH AUTOMOBILE. AND I THINK, UM, SOPHIA, OUR VISION ZERO COORDINATOR, I KNOW SHE LOOKS AT THIS DATA A LOT LIKE SHE GAVE THE DEMONSTRATION. YEAH. UM, ON THE, ON OUR DASHBOARD AT THE EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING, SHE MIGHT, SHE MIGHT KNOW THE ANSWER. UM, AS FAR AS LIKE WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, UM, LIKE MAJOR AND MINOR? BECAUSE MY, MY GUESS MIGHT BE JUST LIKE SEVERITY OF THE CRASH AND SEVERITY OF MAJOR VIRGINIA CONTEXT THAT YEAH, IT, IT'S UP TO THE POLICE OFFICER THAT IS RECORDING IT. THAT'S THE FIRST THING TO ALWAYS REMEMBER WITH THAT. UM, I BELIEVE THIS IS TRANSLATED MAJOR AND MINOR. WHAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY SAYING IS, SUSPECTED SERIOUS INJURY IS THE TAG IN THE CRASH DATA. AND THEN MINOR, UM, SUSPECTED MINOR INJURY. THE SERIOUS INJURY IS OFTEN IF THE, UM, PERSON IS TAKEN AWAY IN AN AMBULANCE AND IS SUSPECTED TO HAVE A SERIOUS INJURY, AGAIN, THEY DON'T ALWAYS FOLLOW UP WITH THE SERIOUS INJURIES. UM, THE FATALITIES CAN CHANGE LATER. SO LIKE THE PERSON MAY DIE AFTER THE FACT AND THEY WILL GO AND CHANGE THE NUMBER. THE SUSPECTED SERIOUS INJURIES, I BELIEVE THERE IS A BIT LESS FOLLOW UP ON. UM, SO IT'S USUALLY DETERMINED AT THE TIME. UM, BUT IT'S USUALLY IF THEY'RE TAKEN AWAY IN AN AMBULANCE AND THE OFFICER DETERMINES THAT THEY HAVE SIGNIFICANT INJURY, IF YOU HAVE CUTS AND BRUISES, THAT WOULD NOT BE SUSPECTED SERIOUS INJURY. BUT IT IS UP TO THE OFFICER TO DETERMINE. AND I, I DON'T THINK THERE'S A HARD AND FAST RULE THAT SEPARATES WHAT IS MINOR AND WHAT IS SUSPECTED SERIOUS INJURY. OKAY. THANK YOU. MM-HMM . UP NEXT BIKEWAY PROJECTS. SO THIS IS VERY STREAMLINED COMPARED? YES. SO WE MADE IT, WE MADE A CHANGE TO THE SLIDES. UM, THE OVERALL BIKEWAY TRACKER MA MATRIX THAT WE USUALLY ADD WITH THE REPORT, WE'RE STILL MAINTAINING THAT AT A STAFF LEVEL, BUT SINCE SO MANY PROJECTS ARE UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND ON PAUSE, UM, JUST TAKING THE OPPORTUNITY TO HIGHLIGHT THE ONES THAT WE KNOW GOING FORWARD, UM, AND ARE GOING FORWARD. AND WE ARE HOPING THAT THIS LIST WILL INCREASE, UM, OVER TIME. SO, UM, FOR OUR ON STREET, UH, PROJECTS, WE KNOW FOR SURE, UH, EQUIPMENT STREET AND, UH, THE PHASE TWO OF SHEPHERD DURHAM. UM, AS WELL AS THE, UM, KIND OF THE STRATEGIC PROJECTS THAT, UH, THAT JENNIFER MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING, THEY'RE GOING FORWARD. AND THEN FOR, UH, THE BRAS, BAYOU MASON PARK TRAIL CONNECTION, UM, IS COMPLETE ON THE NORTH SIDE. THANKS LISA. WOO. AND THIS IS, YOU KNOW, DON'T BE SURPRISED IF, UH, IF YOU KNOW, LIKE A LOT OF, A LOT OF THE UPDATES ARE GONNA BE COMING FROM, FROM HOUSTON PARKS BOARD. UM, SO FORWARD. YOU REMIND ME 'CAUSE MY NUMBERS SO BAD. WHAT WAS THE THIRD STRATEGIC PROJECT THAT SHE ? SO THE, THE THIRD ONE, LIKE, IT WASN'T A STRATEGIC, IT WASN'T A STRATEGIC BIKE WAGE PROJECT PER SE, UM, BUT IT WAS, UM, YOU KNOW, STILL KIND OF A LIKE SMALLER SCALE CONNECTION TYPE PROJECT. SO, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, THE LAMAR STREET, UM, CYCLE TRACK AFTER YOU, AFTER YOU CROSS, UM, TO SAN HOUSTON PARK, IT RUNS PARALLEL TO SAN HOUSTON PARK. AND BECAUSE OF THAT, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE SPECIAL EVENTS LIKE PARADES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, IT IS CONSTANTLY BEING, UM, BEING CLOSED. RIGHT. THE CURRENT LAYOUT MAKES NO SENSE ANYWAY. MM-HMM. IF YOU'RE [01:25:01] RIDING WEST, YOU HAVE TO GO DIAGONALLY ACROSS THE STREET TO GET TO, RIGHT? YEAH. SO, SO NOW, UM, LIKE AFTER, AFTER BAGBY WE WILL GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL LIKE LEFT SIDE OF, OF LAMAR, THE SOUTH SIDE, SOUTH, SOUTH SIDE. THE SOUTH SIDE OF LAMAR. SORRY, I'M KIND OF THINKING AS I'M LIKE LOOKING AT IT. . SO IT'S DOWN ON THE SOUTH SIDE AND THEN THERE'S GONNA BE AN IMPROVED TRAILS CONNECTION, UM, TO GO LIKE UNDER THE HIGHWAY AND TO THE BODY THAT'S CRITICAL. FURTHER CROSSING LAMAR WILL BE CRITICAL. YEAH. OH, OKAY. WHEN YOU SAY IMPROVED, DO YOU HAVE ANY DETAILS ON THAT? LIKE, WILL IT BE A RAISED CROSSING? YAY, WE RAISED. YES. YAY. . THAT'S GREAT. AWESOME. UM, LAMAR DESERVES RAISE. I HAD A QUESTION FROM LISA. SHE JUST . OKAY. THIS IS GOOD. WE'LL, WE'LL THE RIBBON, THE RIBBON CUTTING WAS IN FEBRUARY. UH, THEY STILL HAVEN'T BROKEN GROUND YET. ANY IDEA OF WHEN THEY'RE ACTUALLY GONNA START? I'M NOT SURE. I THINK THAT THE RIBBON BEFORE THEY STARTED BUILDING GROUNDBREAKING, GROUNDBREAKING. OH, OKAY. SORRY, SORRY. WHICH ONE? UH, EQUIPMENT. OH, OKAY. UM, I'M NOT SURE. THAT WOULD BE A QUESTION FOR, UH, FOR PRECINCT TWO IN GREATER NORTH SIDE AND THEN NO PARKING IN THE BIKE LANE. SO WE ARE STILL RECEIVING UPDATES. UM, SINCE APRIL THERE HAVE BEEN AN ADDITIONAL 22 CITATIONS ISSUED. UM, ANOTHER, UH, $2,800 COLLECTED AND FINED. UM, AND THEN AN ADDITIONAL FIVE PEOPLE COMPLETED TRAININGS IN LIEU OF, UH, PAYING THE FINE. UM, AND SINCE THE APRIL REPORT, WE'VE HAD SEVEN NEW LOCATIONS. UM, AND HERE'S, HERE'S THE MAP OF COURSE, AS LIKE THE, THE SCALE OF THE MAP KIND OF GETS A LITTLE LARGER AS THE PROGRAM CONTINUES TO SPAN OUT. AND, UM, PARK HOUSTON IS DOING ENFORCEMENT ELSEWHERE AROUND THE CITY. UM, SO THE NEW LOCATIONS, SOME OF THEM ARE, UM, JUST UP AND DOWN HARDY E LESION JUST ON ADDITIONAL BLOCKS WHERE, BECAUSE ALL OF THESE ARE AT THE, THE TICKETS ARE WRITTEN AT THE BLOCK LEVEL. UM, SO SOME OF THESE ARE ADDITIONAL BLOCKS ALONG HARDY AND ALLEGION, UM, WHERE PEOPLE ARE FOUND PARKING IN THE BIKE WAVES. UM, I BELIEVE, UM, WE DO HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL NEW SITES OVER BY, I ALWAYS FORGET THE NAME OF THE STADIUM. THEY JUST RENAMED IT WHERE THE DYNA SHELL ENERGY, SHELL ENERGY. UM, SO THERE ARE SOME NEW SITES IN THERE, SHELL ENERGY. UM, AND THEN SOME OF THESE ARE, UM, INTERSECTIONS CROSSING. SO LIKE, WE DON'T HAVE A BIKEWAY ON TRAVIS, BUT WHERE TRAVIS INTERSECTS BECAUSE THEY KIND OF GIVE THE TICKET AT THE, THE BEST KNOWN PLACE WHERE, WHERE THEY'RE GOING. OH, THE TOP THREE, THE SAME TOP THREE WE'VE BEEN HAVING? YES. THE TOP THREE ARE THE SAME. TOP THREE, UH, GALVESTON, GALVESTON ROAD, UH, POLK STREET, UM, AS WELL AS BASTROP. SO BASTROP IS DEFINITELY A BUS STATE. UM, AND THEN GALVESTON, THAT IS THE, UH, THE BIKEWAY FURTHER. UM, LIKE THAT 9,100 BLOCK IS FURTHER SOUTHEAST. AND THESE ARE YEAR TO DATE. THESE ARE TOTAL OH, SINCE INCEPTION OF THE, SINCE SINCE INCEPTION. UM, AND THEN, UM, YEAH, WE JUST ACKNOWLEDGE ON A, ON A QUARTERLY BASIS WHAT THE, UH, WHAT OUR KIDS ARE. THANK YOU. AND THEN THAT IS ALL FOR THE AGENDA. UH, WE DO HAVE OPEN FORUM. SO CHAIR, I APOLOGIZE, I HAVE ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANYTHING? I'M HEADED TO THE SAME MEETING. OKAY. SORRY. NO, THANKS. ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANYTHING WE'RE OPEN FOR? UM, JUST WANNA REMIND YOU THAT WILSON CALVER WILL BE TAKING OVER FOR UM, RYAN. AND SO GIVEN GRACE AS HE PICKS UP THE PIECES AND DOES EVERYTHING, I'LL BE SUPPORTING HIM AND HELPING HIM. SO ALL THE EMAILS, UM, COPY ME IF, IF FOR WHATEVER REASON YOU'RE I TO GET AHOLD OF HIM OR, SO THINGS HAPPENED. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? AND I GUESS CAN WE ALSO EXPLICITLY THANK VIRGINIA? YES. BEFORE SHE LEAVES US. WHAT, WHERE ARE YOU GOING? PHILADELPHIA. WOW. [01:30:01] . . THAT'S BITTER SWEET. THE CITY IS A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE YOU WERE HERE AND HELPED MAKE IT SO, SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU VIRGINIA. AND BEST WISHES. OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE ON ? WELL, ON IN MAY 19TH EASTERN MARK CHRONICLE HAD A FASCINATING EDITORIAL BY A LADY NAMED NICK KIMBLE WHO WROTE A BOOK CALLED CITY LIMITS. AND IN THAT OPINION PIECE THAT SHE WROTE FOR THE CHRONICLE, SHE POINTED OUT THAT IN 2005, THE 30 MILE COMMUTE FROM KATIE TOOK ABOUT 50, TOOK 52 MINUTES IN 2014 AFTER SIX YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION, AND $2.8 BILLION LATER THE COMMUTE WAS NOW 70 MINUTES. SO, SO MUCH FOR THE ARGUMENT THAT MORE HIGHWAYS REDUCED, LEMME KNOW WHEN SHE WANTS TO MEASURE 2 88 . I GOT SOME, I GOT SOME ANECDOTAL EXPERIENCE. DOES ANYONE, THERE'S A TERM THAT I'VE HEARD THAT T DOT USES AND IT'S LIKE DAYS TILL FOLD OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AFTER EACH EXPANSION IS COMPLETED. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THAT TERM IS? I'VE EXPERIENCED IT, BUT I KNOW WHAT THE TERM IS. I KNOW WHAT I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS. IT ACTUALLY IS AN INTERNAL ME THAT THEY USE. I, I DON'T THINK UNTIL PEOPLE SHIFT THE PARADIGM BELIEVE AND ME SAYING THAT AS THE GUY DRIVES A THREE QUARTER TON JACKED UP FORD PICKUP TRUCK UNDERSTANDING NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE USED TO DO A NIGHT RIDE IN CYPRUS WOOD ON TUESDAY NIGHTS. WE STOPPED GOING BECAUSE TRAFFIC INCREASED SO EXPONENTIALLY WE CAN NO LONGER GET THERE IN A TIMELY MANNER, EVEN LEAVING TWO HOURS IN ADVANCE. AND SO UNTIL YOU ACTUALLY GET IT THROUGH SOME PEOPLE'S THICK SKULLS THAT YOU HAVE TO REMOVE VEHICLES AND INDIVIDUALS FROM THE ROAD, YOU HAVE TO CREATE OTHER AVENUES OF TRANSPORTATION. WE TAKE WHETHER IT BE LIGHT RAILS, WHETHER IT BE ONE WHEELS, EUCS BIKES, WHATEVER. YEAH. WE HAVE TO CHANGE OUR MENTALITY AND COMPLETELY SHIFT THIS, THIS IDEA OF LET'S BIG BIGGER ROADS. BIGGER ROADS, YOU'RE JUST MAKING BIGGER PARKING LOTS. THAT MEAN 45 EXPANSION WILL NOT SHRINK ANY OF OUR PROBLEMS AT ALL. NO. WELL, IN HER BOOK, UH, THE HAD KIND OF A NECESSARY FROM THE BOOK. SHE TALKS ABOUT THE I 10 CONSTRUCTION, I 35 IN AUSTIN AND CONSTRUCTION IN DALLAS. AND NOW ALL IT'S DONE IS, UH, IT NEVER INCREASES THE COMMUTE TIME DRIVE. IT JUST ALWAYS INCREASES IT BECAUSE OF THE SUBURB EXPAND TO FIT THE NEW ROADS. SO WE NEVER, WE NEVER LET'S CALL AGAINST CITY CALLED CITY LIMITS. CITY LIMITS, CITY LIMITS. MEGAN CAMPBELL, I HAVE A, ANOTHER TOPIC MAYBE NOT MEAN, BEEN BROUGHT UP THE IDEA OF LIKE OTHER FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION. UM, UH, WHAT IS IT METRO, UH, I KNOW HASN'T BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE, BUT IS THERE ANY CHANCE WE CAN GET MAYBE AN UPDATE FROM THEM ON LIKE THE, UM, THE NEW, UM, UH, NEGOTIATIONS THEY'RE DOING WITH THIS OUTSIDE VENDOR FOR, UM, UH, RENTING BIKES? UH, YEAH. SO, UM, WE ARE STILL SIMILAR TO THE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE, UH, INNER KATIE BRT BECAUSE I KNOW THAT ALSO CAME UP, UH, IN THE BAC AND WE WERE TRYING TO GET SOME SOMEBODY FROM METRO TO SPEAK ON, ON THAT. AND ALSO LIKE THE FUTURE OF LIKE VICE CHAIR. UM, A LOT OF THAT IS STILL UP TO THE NEW EXECUTIVE BOARD TO MAKE A DECISION, UM, BEFORE THEY START SPEAKING PUBLICLY ABOUT IT. SO WE'RE, WE'RE KIND OF, WE'RE KIND OF WAITING ON ON THEM. SO FOR EXAMPLE, UM, HGAC HAS BEEN CONVENING, UM, US HERE AT THE CITY, UM, B CYCLE AND METRO TO KIND OF WORK A TRANSITION PLAN, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR FOR BIKE SHARE TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S KIND OF IN THE SAME ROOM TO SHARE DATA AND YOU KNOW, LIKE ASSIST. UM, AND THEN THAT'S KIND OF WHERE, WHERE WE'VE BEEN. SO, UM, WE'RE JUST KIND OF WAITING ON, ON METRO, YOU KNOW, SIMILAR TO, YOU KNOW, OUR NEW ADMINISTRATION. UM, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE REVIEWING EVERYTHING. UM, AND WE'RE SOON, AS SOON AS WE GET WORD WE WE'D LOVE TO BRING THEM. OKAY. SO I'M BEEN ASKING. YEAH, THANK YOU. SOME, UM, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND EVENTS. UH, TOM, FORGIVE ME. UM, 'CAUSE YOU REMINDED ME AND I DIDN'T ADD IT TO THE SLIDES. SO PUBLIC WORKS, UM, WE ARE HAVING A PUBLIC HEARING COMING UP ON THE [01:35:01] NORTH CANAL, UM, BAYOU EXTENSION PROJECT. UM, I FORGET THE, THE DATE, I THINK IT'S AUGUST 6TH IN THE LEGACY ROOM OF CITY HALL, WHICH I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH. MAYBE SOMEONE ELSE'S. I'M NOT ON THE GROUND FLOOR. AND JUST FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MAY NOT BE UP TO SPEED UP NORTH CANAL, THIS IS KIND OF THE SHORTCUT FROM WHITE OAK BIO OVER TO, UH, BUFFALO BIO. SO IT'LL BE GOING RIGHT ACROSS ESSENTIALLY KIND OF JUST NORTH OF THE JAIL AND THAT WILL HAVE IMPACTS ON THE TRAIL. THAT'S, THAT'S A PIECE OF IT. AND THERE'S ALSO PART OF IT WHERE Y OAK GOES UNDER, UH, HEIGHTS IN YALE, WHICH WILL ALSO AFFECT THE TRAIL THERE. ESSENTIALLY DURING CONSTRUCTION, THEY'VE ALREADY WORKED OUT A DETOUR. SO I THINK DETOUR I THINK IS MULTIPLE. MM-HMM . UM, BUT THAT NEXT SECTION, I THINK THERE'S STILL SOME PIECES IN THE AIR WHERE ON SAN JACINTO OR, 'CAUSE IT'S GOING, YOU KNOW, THEY'LL HAVE TO REDO SAN JACINTO. OF COURSE THE, IT'S CALLED WIDE BIO TRAIL. I THINK THE ORIGINAL NAME WAS HERITAGE TRAIL EAST OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AS EXTENSION. THE MKT THAT COMES THROUGH THERE, THAT'LL BE IMPACTED. SO I DON'T THINK IT'S ALL BEEN WORKED OUT YET. THEY'RE, THEY'RE AIMING FOR 60% DESIGN THIS FALL. UM, AND SO THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GET, YOU KNOW, FIGURED OUT WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO WITH THE TRAILS IN THAT AREA. BUT THE PUBLIC MEETING, IT, IT, IT'LL BE IN PERSON. THERE IS A VIRTUAL OPTION, BUT IT'LL ESSENTIALLY BE A PRE-RECORDED ALL A, YOU KNOW, UH, TYPE OF THING. UH, SO NO INTERACTION IN THAT MEETING. SO YOU WANT TO, I'M SURE THERE'LL BE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ONLINE COMMENTS AND STUFF TOO, BUT, UH, I'M PRETTY SURE IT'S AUGUST 6TH. UH, BUT THEY SHOULD HAVE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT COMING UP PRETTY SOON. SO IF I GET IT, I'LL FORWARD IT TO YOU. YEAH. AND, UH, MAKE SURE WILSON'S GOT IT AND WE CAN MAKE SURE, MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S GOT IT. UM, JUST ALSO MENTIONING, I THINK, UM, IS THIS MEETING RECORDED AND THEN UPLOADED ON YOUTUBE BY ANY CHANCE? SO THIS MEETING WON'T BE UPLOADED TO, UH, THE YOUTUBE, BUT WE ARE RECORDING IT, SO OH, SO HTV? YEAH. OKAY. SO SINCE WE, SO WE GOT, WE GOT BUMPED FROM, UH, THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS TODAY MM-HMM. DUE TO ANOTHER MEETING THAT HAS HAPPENED THIS AFTERNOON. OKAY. UM, IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OFTEN, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, WHY WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN OPERATING JUST FINE. UM, BUT HTV IS COVERING THAT LIVE, I BELIEVE. OKAY. WE ARE, WE ARE RECORDING THIS MEETING AND I WILL BE SENDING THE VIDEO OVER TO HTV, SO IT WILL BE IN THE HTV ARCHIVES. OKAY. UM, SIMILAR TO ALL OF THE OTHER BAC C MEETING. AND THEN, UM, SO FOR NEXT MEETING, UH, THERE IS A TYPO. SO WE, WE ARE DOING OCTOBER'S MEETING AT 2:00 PM UM, SO THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE IS COMING UP AUGUST 28TH, THE EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 25TH. UM, BOTH OF THOSE MEETINGS WILL BE HERE IN THE JOHN RE WITH THE OPTION TO JOIN HYBRID ON MICROSOFT TEAM. AND THEN IN, UH, IN OCTOBER, THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UM, WILL BE 2:00 PM UH, IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, NOT TWO 30, NOT, NOT TWO 30 I DID, THAT'S JUST KIND OF A CARRYOVER AS I'VE BEEN. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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