Larry, I would like to thank you and your staff for designing the CTH S&M intersection around the needs of Peds/Bikes first rather than fitting them in as an aferthought. As much as I'd like to see the CTH S&M capacity expansion work delayed for a year or so for budget reasons, I do appreciate the improved attention to the needs of peds/bikes.
Two questions regarding the budget: 1) Do the "$135,083 ped/traffic calming budgets" in the pipeline reflect items that were part of the 2008 budget, or are those items part of the 2009 budget or some other budget? 2) Can you provide some numbers regarding the trends over the last few budgets in the percentage of transportation dollars (Fed+State+Local) spent in ways that provide various MV-alternative infractruture in (or adjacent to) Madison versus spending on infrastructure primariliy dedicated to facilitating travel by motor vehicle in (or adjacent to) Madison? I realize this may be hard to break out according to my question, so perhaps you can answer the nearest question that gets at the same point: Are we trending toward facilitating more human-scaled transportation in Madison, or more Motor-vehicle-scaled transportation? Thanks, - Matt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed Oct 15 07:32:10 CDT 2008 Alder Webber, I told you that we have $135,083 for the ped/traffic calming budgets in the pipeline and another $100,000 in the 2009 Budget. In addition, those types of that are determined to be part of the 2009 Reconstruction Streets will be financed from those projects. That has always been the goal of traffic calming....inclusion of traffic calming design standards in our new streets and reconstruction projects. We are pleased that we have finally gotten through the backlog of traffic calming projects. I am confident that staff can make the necessary decisions to recommend future priority projects that have neighborhood support. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
