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Speak Out - ON THE AVE 2008
Questions:
Initial Questions
- What do you like about Franklin Avenue today?
- What makes for a pedestrian-friendly environment?
- How do you get around the neighborhood?
- What don't you like about Franklin Avenue today?
- If there was one thing you could change about ped/bike/vehicle/transit circulation, what would it be?
- Do you think additional connections are necessary?
- What are the issues for cars?
- What are the issues for bikes?
- What are the issues for pedestrians?
Responses:
- Need to repair W. River Road bike path, take away 10 mph. speed limit
- Make buttons for cross-walk signals more responsive
- Include timers for cross-walk signals
- Get businesses to shovel out cross walks for HC access in winter
- Get bicycle riders to honor lights
- Get rides around the hood
- Cross walk times aren't long enough to get across
- Bikes don't have lights at night.
- Bikers should have more reflective clothing.
- Bikers don't obey traffic laws
- People have to be really resourceful to get around.
- I walk, bike & use LRt/Scooter.
- Each family should have 1 car instead of 3.
- I like Franklin because it is bright and everyone has their own spark or idea.
- Make major intersections safer for bikes especially Cedar & Franklin.
- Like Franklin west of 27th Ave. Businesses that are interesting, fewer parking lots, but not east.
- Improve environment along LRT ped/bike path to Greenway. Too industrial, isolated, treeless.
- Control patrons at sidewalk seating. Drinking particularly
- School buses go too fast through the neighborhood after they drop kids
- Difficult to cross Franklin Avenue at cross-streets from 22nd to 26th Avenues; 26th in particular is hard to cross & Riverside at Franklin.
- Getting out onto Franklin is difficult by car or bus.
- Consider making East 25th Street & East 26th Street one-way. Resolve issues w/busses passing (meeting), noise, illegal u-turns/y-turns (for parking); Better (more) use of one-way streets.
- Riverside & South 9th Street. Bad for pedestrians & bicyclists. Unsafe for kids; intersection too big; sidewalks too narrow on Riverside crossing I-94.
- How do we best mix housing and commercial on Franklin, especially closer to LRT station?
- How do we encourage businesses to do a better job of sharing parking?
- Traffic snarls around holiday/Co-op area worst 4 to 6 pm.
- City parking requirements are too onerous (too many spaces required)
- Get the parking lots off the street and move behind the buildings. Yes!!
- Need to work on reducing trash.
- Franklin not bike friendly, use mostly 24th St to bike across neigh.
- Need a public drinking fountain somewhere on Franklin.
- Need something more happening on Franklin Ave so you might say "Let's go see what's happening on Franklin".
- Get an HourCar on Franklin.
- Have a shop that rents things we want to use occasionally but not own.
- Get rid of leading green arrow turns. Pedestrians should get a walk when the light changes.
- No more surface parking lots on Franklin Ave. Build a ramp and share parking.
- I like that neighbors walk to hardware store, coffee shop, Coop and Pizza Luce. Let's keep it that way!
- Permit a left-turn from eastbound Franklin to Riverside.
- Not a pleasant street to walk on. Streetscape is ugly. Too many parking lots; hodgepodge of one-story buildings, poor lighting (should 22nd st. become an alternate ped/bike route)
- More green on Franklin. Too few trees & too much concrete.
- Bring the grocery back to RS site.
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