| Engineering 10 min
❖ Report back from first Engineering Team meeting
Tegin spoke on behalf of Brian. The engineering team expects to be one of the busier teams, as their duties are very detailed and can be time consuming. To manage this, they expect individuals on the Engineering team to have very specific roles and responsibilities.
❖ Lowell Street/Community Path crossing (Action item from last meeting) (Brian)
Tegin reported that the Engineering team visited the site and measured distances and sightlines focusing on the Community Path access point near the Lowell St Bridge. Their analysis concluded that the best recommendation was to provide a crosswalk across Lowell St at the Community Path intersection. As previously requested by the whole Committee, the Engineering team sent a letter to OSPCD describing their analysis and detailed recommendations.
❖ Cedar Street/Community Path crossing (Ariel/Jennifer)
Ariel reported that raised crosswalk construction has started. She asked whether the Cedar St plans have been updated to include feedback from the public meeting and from the Committee’s discussions. Jennifer said that the City is updating the design to include left-turn bike lanes at the Community Path crossing. The City reached out to NACTO and Portland, Oregon for advice on the design, which may be the first use of left-turn bicycle lanes on the east coast. Ken asked if the lanes could be green to mark the conflict zone. Jennifer said that has not yet been decided.
❖ Plan to provide input on bicycle circulation plan for Union Square (Tim/Jennifer)
Jennifer reported that Tim had reached out to the design consultants via the City. Jennifer said that the plan is very conceptual at this stage. City staff is currently busy with a neighborhood planning meeting on June 24th focusing on areas other than transportation, but can meet with the Committee at some point afterwards.
Action item: Jennifer will arrange a time for the Committee to meet with the design consultants and city officials so that the Committee can provide feedback on the conceptual bicycle circulation plan
❖ Washington St
The Engineering Team plans to study Washington St south of Union Square, considering bike lanes consistent with Cambridge’s plans for Kirkland St.
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