Okay, can you hear us now?

Can you hear us now?

Can the person online hear us?

Okay, fantastic.

Thank you for letting us know.

Okay.

Um approval of agenda.

So it all is in front of you and was in our email earlier.

Uh do I have a motion to approve the agenda?

So moved.

So a second.

Second.

All right.

Are there any amendments or changes proposed?

No.

Okay.

Any objections to what we have.

All right, approved.

All right.

Jumping to oral and written communications.

Uh Kevin's been good as always with forwarding us to us the written communications that he's received since our last meeting, which is all the way back in October.

Ummunications.

I don't know who we have here tonight.

I have two people signed up.

Okay.

The first person who signed up is Robert Armstead.

And I don't see Robert's online, and I don't see him here.

Okay.

So the next person signed up is Vic Bishop, who I also don't see online.

Let me double check.

Vic's there.

Okay.

So I will allow you to talk.

Go ahead, Vic.

You got three minutes.

Welcome, Vic.

Thank you.

Thank you, Vic Bishop.

Uh, I think most of you know who I am.

I'm a uh professional traffic engineer and former member of your commission and chair of your commission about a decade or so ago.

I'm here to talk about speed limits.

Um I just want to caution you to be extremely careful about lowering the speed limits around the city.

The issue of speed limits is a long, well-established traffic engineering issue that is well established in in data.

The 85th percentile concept is absolutely uh uh uh an important issue, and if you attempt to go below much below the 85th percentile of what's actually happening, 85th percentile is based upon a spot speed survey randomly done uh of a hundred vehicles, and if you get more than uh uh i if you attempt to put the speed limit more than five miles an hour before the existing eighty-fifth percentile, you will fail miserably.

And I've proved that I've I spent the decade of the eighties doing traffic safety studies all over the state, including speed limit studies, and I proved in Lynnwood specifically that they had a whole bunch of streets at 25 miles an hour, and I did I did uh 30 or so speed studies all over the city, convinced the council to raise the speed limit from 25 to 30, and in some cases to 35, and then got them to let me uh do the speed studies again, and the speeds were lowered when we raised the speed limit.

You cannot force the public to go slower than they're willing to go.

The parkway is a classic example, and I encourage you to leave the Westlake Sammamish Parkway at the 30 miles an hour and 35 miles an hour that it currently is, and the thought of reducing the entire park away from I-90 to Redmond to 25 miles an hour to me.

Uh if you did that and you recommended that, and I certainly hope that you demand that 85 that spot speed surveys be completed after the speed limits are changed and not just after, but after it settles down a bit and you get the cops out of there, and you let the public do what they're gonna do, and you will find that 25 is going to be too low for a lot of the streets.

Certainly the parkway, I think Bell Red is probably another one that same similar thing.

And I just encourage you to be very cautious and use the traffic engineering information.

Thank you, Vic.

Your sense.

Your time is up.

Sorry to interrupt you.

Thanks for the input.

Uh did the second person online show up?

Okay.

Then is there anybody in the room who would like to speak who did not sign up?

And nobody else online who wants to speak up.

Anybody online that hasn't announced themselves?