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84 | 2026 PLEASANTON BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN IMPLEMENTATION GOAL 2: INCREASE COMFORT Apply a “one-better” approach to achieve progressively lower Levels of Traffic Stress (LTS), creating routes that are comfortable for people of all ages and abilities where feasible. Policy Action Policy 2.1: Implement Incremental “One-Better” Improvements by advancing comfort improve- ments as opportunities arise. Action 2.1a: Implement “one-better” upgrades during resurfacing, capital projects, and utility work, even when full build-out is not immediately feasible. Action 2.1b: Routinely identify and integrate bicycle and pedestrian improvements into all standard maintenance (such as overlays and repaving), planning studies, roadway redesign, and auto-focused CIP projects (such as new signals or signal modifications). Action 2.1c: Require frontage design of all future development to construct or plan for future pedestrian, bicycle, and transit improvements. Action 2.1d: Document existing and post-project LTS to track incremental improvements over time. Policy 2.2: Focus on reducing stress gaps and providing connected, comfortable walking and bicycling routes. Action 2.2a: Prioritize improvements where one or more segments operate at higher LTS than adjacent segments to reduce stress discontinuities. Action 2.2b: Prioritize lowering LTS on routes connecting neighborhoods to schools, parks, transit stops, Downtown, and other key destinations. Action 2.2c: Ensure that low-stress routes provide continuous connections across major bar- riers such as arterials, freeways, and rail corridors. Policy 2.3: Select design treatments that re- spond to roadway context, speeds, and traffic volumes. Action 2.3a: Use the City’s bicycle and pedestrian treatment toolkit in Appendix A to identify appropriate comfort improvements based on operating speeds, traffic volumes, and adjacent land uses. Action 2.3b: Increase horizontal or vertical separation between motor vehicles and people walking or biking on higher-speed and higher-volume streets. Action 2.3c: Improve buffer widths, physical separation, and edge protection where feasible to enhance perceived comfort. Action 2.3d: Utilize the bicycle and pedestrian treatment toolkit included in Appendix A to ensure standard lane widths and turning radii can safely accommodate increasing volumes of e-bikes and emerging micro-mobility devices to maintain comfort for all facility users.