BPAC Meeting 2020-09-21

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Sean Egan Director of Transportation, City of Durham

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Doug Bright City of Durham Transportation Department

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Leslie Tracey City of Durham Transportation Department

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David Fellerath moving out of the county, so stepping down

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Paul and Dale thanked each other and others for the work on the American Tobacco Trail development projects and trying to keep it walk and bike friendly.

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Vision Zero presentation

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Background

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Started in Sweden in 1997

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Traffic fatalities are not an acceptable trade off for mobility.

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Accepts that humans in vehicles will make mistakes, so we need to build protections.

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  • Durham averages 25 fatal crashes / year.
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  • Nationwide, numbers are trending upwards. Non-automotive transit users are especially at risk (bike, walk, etc).
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  • Struck and killed while walking up 35%
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Durham first in NC and one of first mid-size cities in US to adopt it.

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Emily Egge was on the vision zero team.

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Details

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Doug Bright (recently graduated from UNC graduate school of planning)

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Doug created this “index”

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!! Is there any short list of the most dangerous intersections?

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^ asked, they don’t have a super clear prioritization

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They seem to be more focused on equity concerns and roadways than necessarily finding the lowest hanging fatality reduction fruit, so to speak.

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!! Is there any hope for adding some of these traffic calming elements to the city ordinances? Something to ask DevRev

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Updates from subcommittees

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EEE

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  • Youth members
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  • All good with 15-24
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  • Social Media
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  • Will talk more on that later.
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DevRev

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  • Looking at more site plans recently. They have to abide by the UDO.
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  • Focused a lot on the American Tobacco expansion.
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  • Capital Broadcasting purchased the old Ford dealership.
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  • Unfortunately, planning department doesn’t think they can force the plan to connect the north and south bike routes.
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  • Northgate mall site plan (didn’t need rezoning).
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  • Asking for good connections to bus stops on neighboring roads
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  • Courtyards at southpoint
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  • putting in two connections to tobacco trail
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  • Highgate and NC 54
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  • no response yet
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PIE

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  • Sidewalk prioritization talk
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  • Braggtown issues, actual discussions there
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  • Updates on safe roads to schools
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  • Updates on sidewalk connections
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Updates from Liasons

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Javiera Caballero, City Council

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Some budget stuff

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I was distracted, some sort of pending thing for us to look at, some relevance to transit.

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Tony Patterson, NC Central

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Moved out of Durham so resigned from committee.

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Aidil Ortiz and Ed Rizzuto, Comprehensive Plan

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Staying tuned, there will be discussions coming soon.

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Community updates

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Old Business

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Land and Equity Acknowledgement

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No updates, should keep in mind for next meeting.

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Letter to BikeWalkNC

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Voted, approved!!

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New Business

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Vice Chair

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Aidil Ortiz nominated me, and it was approved. Ok!

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