Hi City Council,
Please prioritize bike and pedestrian safety over other considerations including cars, parking, and cost. Focus on roads, routes, and areas that children use, school routes, and high traffic, high speed roads.
A few specific requests:
- Install truly protected (with raised curbs with bollards on top) bike lanes not paint buffered. Paint doesnt actually protect bikers. This needs to be done at least on high traffic, high speed streets such as Ravenswood and Laurel St.
- Install bike lanes on all roads. Sharrows have not been shown to decrease accidents, so please use evidence based interventions not convenience or low cost
- Widen all existing bike lanes to be curb protected and buffered, so there is protection from cars both that are driving and those that are parked so bikes arent in the "door zone"
- Install sidewalks on both sides of streets where there are none
- Prioritize Safe Route to School and all roads to from schools such as Laurel St and Encinal
- Prioritize Laurel St, Ravenswood, Menlo Ave overall
- Replace parking and loading zones with bike lanes
- Do not wait for SRI development plans or funding to make interventions on Laurel St and Ravenswood now (i.e. truly/curb protected bike lanes).

Importantly, focus on reliable, systematic interventions not low reliable interventions (i.e. outreach to educate bikers and pedestrians, or paint which doesnt reliably prevent cars from pitting people or bikers).
Thanks,
Kenneth Mah and family (wife + 6yo and 1yo children) who attend MP school and bike as primary mode of transportation for all activities, work, shopping, etc. and live in the Burgess Classics