Yeah.

And then like something real fast.

Like they said, that's a beautiful half.

Just think we're having a big one.

Okay, folks, we'll go ahead and call it the afternoon, or technically, I guess this is the morning session.

And pursuant to BTCA Government Code Chapter Five Five One Point Zero Seven One Zero Seven Two And Zero Seven Four and Zero Eight Seven.

We will now go into an executive close session.

We're gonna go ahead and call the afternoon session back to order.

We close the executive session when we were in the other room just a little while ago.

So we're gonna move on down to three point one council priorities on enhanced mobility.

All right.

Um good afternoon, Mayor, members of city council.

So this is the quarterly opportunity to talk about one of your business plan, excuse me, your council priorities.

Um originally called enhanced regional mobility was established in 20 um 13 and renamed for 2026 um simply with enhanced mobility.

So we're gonna talk about um some of the business plan items here, and then we'll have some follow-up um discussion regarding some of the communications regionally regarding um transportation.

So just uh a few updates.

Um one thing you'll note that parentheses one uh slash three uh that references the new ADA requirements that take effect uh near the end of this near the end of this month, and so um those are a required designators uh that you'll see throughout the presentation depending on where we are there.

The OCI uh index is an important measure of the quality of our road surfaces as you're aware.

Um we have three different ratings, uh green, yellow, and red.

Uh we've had some slippage, and we'll talk a little more detail about the um increase in the number of miles that are rated red.

However, we've got some good news along that front uh in in reference to the 35 lane miles that are um underway or will be underway over the next year, so it will improve that score a little bit.

Uh the traffic uh management technology improvements are moving forward.

Um and so it's a technology um from a company called No Traffic to optimize uh first Matlock Road.

Um so in the second quarter uh you'll see this item on track.

And then the entertainment district pedestrian bridge uh conceptual design.

We're looking at three um areas there uh for potential for this first pedestrian bridge, Randall Mill and Collins, Sanford and Collins, and Randall Mill and ATNT uh way.

And so here um we've selected a firm called um Tylen, which specializes in bridges and it will complete a com conceptual design including landscaping and security elements.

And so the idea here really is to um more effectively separate pedestrians and vehicles in the entertainment district.

It's a certainly a very vulnerable uh situation every time we have an event with the number of pedestrians and vehicles entering that area.

And so we're hopeful um through development that this will help allay some of the concerns about pedestrian safety.

So sublet road, uh the rebuild, you see some images there of that completed project.

Um it was voter approved and began construction in May of 2023.

Uh currently it's a three-lane roadway with Orange Street bicycle lanes and a new bridge over key branch.

Also included sidewalks, water utility renewals, and a new storm drain system pavement markings and street signs and and street lights.

Um the first two references are Arlington on demand kind of active riders and completed rides, and so those are all uh well within the green uh and then our our handy train rides first quarter about 36,000 um handy train rides, and I know um the um transportation committee had a uh meeting a little earlier that you'll get an update on in a little while regarding more metrics there.

And then on time performance for handy train at 93% for the quarter.

So moving on to some additional scorecard measures.

Um you'll note in red, that's the OCI reference, but again, um we will actually have a net increase of about six miles in that red category once those 35 miles are completed.

Uh as far as our uh maintenance of our traffic signals, uh, we're at 100% of the uh the target for maintenance of those signals was completed, and then um let's say we we also have about three thousand of those that um needed to be referenced or maintained during the year, so uh more target there as well.

Some discussion about some upcoming projects.

Um we have um primarily through the sales tax again, the 35 lane miles um that'll be under construction, about 15.2 million dollars, a couple of different um maintenance strategies, including roadway reclamation, which would include Bernie Road, and that's from Greenoaks to City Limits.

It'll include Russell Curry Road from Eden to U.S.

Highway 287, Arbrook from Bowen to Malier, and then Beverly Lane and Garden Lane, all will be improved through uh roadway reclamation.

And then the concrete panel replacements will include Greenoaks, New York to Collins, Eden Road, uh Wicklow to Matlock, and then Sub Lead Road, Matlock Road to Collin Street.

And then finally, the Millen Overlay program.

We'll see improvements at Sanford between Bowen to Cousins, Mill Creek Neighborhood, Brown Boulevard, Collins Street to Hidden Ridge, and then the 2019 drainage ditch project, which is one of the joint projects.

So quite a bit of activity through that program.

Let's talk about some upcoming projects and initiatives.

Our safe streets program with the goal of 5% annually decreasing and up to zero deaths by 2050 is the goal.

Uh we've had some good news over the last year with the number of fatalities.

We had 37 the previous year and 30 last year.

Um there is a slight uptake uptick in the beginning of this year, but we're hoping that will stabilize and further reduce as the year continues.

And then the transportation group has a series of meetings and engagement updates that you see referenced on the slide for more activity relative to the safe streets program.

So this is a new section that we wanted to highlight to really talk about the opportunities that council has to engage on uh regional transportation projects.

And so these are the annual opportunities that currently exists through the RTC report outs monthly.

Um the presentations similar to this, four times a year.

Um our quarterly uh meetings uh often have this as a topic as well as the council retreats one coming up, which will have specific uh topic related to transportation and then the annual transportation services update.

In addition, there are opportunities that um you've taken advantage of specifically meeting one-on-one with staff on specific questions and uh initiatives that you have interest in.

So we wanted to really drive point uh drive home the the idea that there are a number of opportunities for um discussion on these topics.

This slide references um some communication uh recently over since last November, um starting with the council retreat, and um couple of letters that were requested relative to the high-speed rail and micro transit, and then the uh support for high speed rail.