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ATTACHMENT 2: PUBLIC COMMENTS From:Steven Dunbar [mailto: Sent:Saturday, February 02, 2019 9:53 PM To: Richard Patenaude Cc: Matthew Nelson;Shweta Bonn; Subject: Pleasanton Downtown Specific Plan and Transit Service Mr. Patenaude, As a bike rider, route 10R rider, Livermore resident,and transit engineer, I am wondering what feedback LAVTA has provided about the downtown specific plan thus far, especially with regards to the Peters changes. As much as I constantly call for narrower lanes whenever feasible, I worry that LAVTA may object to two 11' lanes next to 7' parking on a street that has buses pass each other every 15 minutes for 12 hours a day.The additional challenge of closer trees and parking,a cycletrack-crossing bus stop, and an even tighter turning radius at Rose and St.John worries me. I would like to know this has their approval before we cast our bets on Peters for our all-abilities bicycle network in downtown, as the trail is not expected to make it fully across downtown. See the forwarded email below to the Pleasanton BPAC from last year for additional thoughts. Please respond with any information you have on this topic. Thank you, Steven Dunbar Bike Walk Livermore Engineer, GILLIG LLC Forwarded message From: Steven Dunbar< > Date: Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 9:27 PM Subject: Re: Bike/Trails Committee Meeting 10/26 To:< > Hello, I will not be able to attend the committee meeting tomorrow, Nov 26. Please consider these comments. With respect to Peters: 1)The committee should very seriously consider how the cycletrack on Peters interacts with bus service. A bus boarding island in front of a cycle track may work,or bus service could be redesigned to avoid Peters entirely, but those tradeoffs need to be evaluated before more work is done. If bus service is rerouted we may need to think about lane widths on other streets. 12