Um I'm a bike rider.

I ride in the streets, but I never ride on the sidewalks.

I follow lights and follow signs.

I'm at the pants of right.

And then hit twice.

Um I agree with bike lanes.

I ride in them, but I'm not happy when they put them on major roads.

I don't think they need to be on a major road.

As a chest invite people who are afraid to ride on a major road, even though there's a bike lane.

I write some, and I I never had a problem with sunlight.

But obviously, people do, but I'm not in favor of a separate lane.

I think that's just the wrong way to go.

There are other streets that can go.

Jefferson has bike lanes all the way down.

Why do we have to have another set?

Um, I'm just not happy with that.

Um but you know, the big thing is not everybody can write a bike.

And I'm giving the impression that everybody wants the world to go to bikes.

Not everybody can ride a bike.

Um, some of its age, some of its physical disabilities.

And so you cut those people, you know, the people that need a car, you cut those people out.

So you know, I'm not real happy with that.

Um, I mean, like I said, there are other streams with less traffic.

I I write other streams that run the same way as selling, but I never write unstelling.

Snowing's crazy.

Um, I mean, you have to think about where you want to put these bike lanes and what they do how they affect the people that live there, especially parking.

You can park on all of a sudden you can't park in front of your own home.

I don't think that's the answer either.

But I am a rider, and and I I enjoy riding my bike, but I'm extremely defensive.

Um, and one person was talking about revenue.

Why don't bicycle riders have to have a license just like a car?

Just a lot, you know.

So thank you again for listening to all of us that are here, and I hope you make good decision.

Thank you.

Next up is Annie Singer.

My name's Anne Singer.

I live at 2103 Berkeley Avenue in St.

Law.

And I overall I really support this plan.

I think it's good.

I appreciate that it incorporated many of the suggestions that people, including myself, provided for earlier drafts.

Here are a few specific things that I like and a couple changes I would make.

I like the plan's statement about a policy of next best bikeway.

On page 85, I like that you included using lower cost or short-term materials and included jersey barriers as an option.

Of the standalone projects, I really like Pennsylvania, uh, the university segment, um, the southern part of Caesar Chavez and the Lafayette Payne Mini Haha, all of these will be super useful.

Um as for changes, um, I would echo a previous person who said that uh uh we need more connections or a connection with the Capitol, uh, either via Cedar or via a Wabacho or something.

Um there's currently no connection to Broadway Street, Prince, Swede Hollow, uh Lafayette or the Third Street Kellogg Bridge.

Uh essentially there's no way to bike east uh to the east side from Kellogg.

Um, and I see a line on the map on Kellogg, but it shows a future connection either on the deck of Union Depot, which is kind of useless, um, or on the south side sidewalk, which isn't wide enough to accommodate bikes.

Um, so it seems like either a lane of Kellogg uh between Sibley and Broadway has to be taken, or something needs to be built on 4th Street.

Um, and second, um, there's no current connection between downtown and the 35e Trail, Smith Avenue Bridge, and the neighborhoods to the southwest of downtown.

And the solution on the plan is to make Exchange Street into a bikeway.

And that's better than nothing, but exchange street is down the bluff from downtown.

Uh, so riders would have to go down a significant grade and then back up a hill on a kind of circuitous route to reach Smith Street and the 35e trail uh or Southwest neighborhoods, and I don't think anyone's really gonna do this.

Um, and a much better or additional solution would be to take a lane on West 7th or take space on Smith Avenue, or at an absolute minimum, continue chestnuts from behind children's hospital through what's currently a parking lot to Kellogg.

Um, and then the last thing is um under the chapter five supporting biking.

Um, I think you should at least mention the issue of bike theft as an impediment to people cycling, uh, particularly in downtown, and some strategies to combat it.

Um, I sent the city a couple of short videos on how they solved it in Vancouver using a thing, all right.

Yeah, thank you.

It's a good plan.