HomeMy WebLinkAbout081315 Dandridge, Richard - Pre-scoping - VI From: Judv Surber
To: Amber Lona
Subject: FW:Transportation Focus!
Date: Thursday,August 13,2015 9:04:04 AM
2016 update.
From: Richard Dandridge [mailto:dandrpt@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 7:01 AM
To: Scott Walker; CityCouncil; David Timmons; Lance Bailey; Judy Surber; Samantha Thomas; Lys
Burden; Marion Huxtable; Gerald Braude; Glenn Woodbury; Cindy J; karen obermeyer;
rstockment@aol.com; Carl Stancil; Ben Bauermeister; L. Katherine Baril
Subject: Transportation Focus!
Good Morning Council Members,
I strongly support Scott Walkers call to action and want to thank him for continuing to provide
Leadership on this important issue. In addition to my time on the City's Non Motorized
Transportation Advisory Board, I'm the current chair of Local 2020's Transportation Lab.
Through my time with these advisory and advocacy organizations I've developed a better
understanding for transportations vital role in the very fabric that makes up our community.
For that reason I joined the Collective Impact group sub committee on Affordable Housing,
Broadband and Transportation, to help insure that those important discussions make the
connections on how our transportation choices effect the many issues we as a community and
you as City government deal with.
I offer this article to illustrate the scope of the problem we face.
(htt ://www.cit�lab.com/commute/20114/03/amcricas-cities-arc-still-too-afraid-make-driving una caIing/8564/?
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I'm submitting my list of transportation action steps for your consideration. Offered in no
particular order. These steps would help get us where Scotts call to action is focused and yet
still fall short of what is needed. Some of these recommendations are included in Local 2020's
Comprehensive Plan recommendation submission.
1. Contact Cindy Jayne, current Chair of the Joint City/County Climate Action Committee
and get my actions steps I submitted for the CAC partners to implement action through
leadership. I sent this list in when I was a CAC member during Brian Goldstein's term as
Chair.
2. Transit Authority Board needs to restart a fully engaged transit Citizen Advisory Board,
minus the free pass incentive.
3. Institute a Complete Streets Ordinance.
4. If allowed by Washington State law implement an Idaho Stops law.
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5. Insure full funding for NMTAB beyond a few gravel dumps each year.
6. Direct Staff and the NMTAB to make the 2016 application renewal for the League of
American Bicyclists Bicycle Friendly Community a top priority.
7. In conjunction with the Transportation Lab, the NMTAB and the community hold a
Transportation Fourm in 2016.
8. Consider a Smart Trips program
9. Take a very serious look the the transportation plan drafted by our PRTPO group which was
rejected by WaDoT.
You have a once in a twenty year chance to make a real difference on the future of Port
Townsend. As good as the 1999 Comp Plan is, it's call for a managed parking program has
gone unanswered.
10. Institute a state of the art managed parking program.
Pedaling On!
The Point of Power is Always in the Present Moment
"we'd better work in the currencies we can muster: bodies, spirit, passion" McKibbon
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