Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association was invited to attend the June 23, 2010 meeting of the CMB Mayor's Blue Ribbon Bikeways Advisory Committee to discuss the plans for implementation of the Southeast Phase One Section of the Flamingo Neighborhood improvement program -- particularly improvements to Euclid Avenue. Concern had been expressed that the narrowed 12 ft roadway would have to be expanded to 15 ft to accommodate a 10 ft auto lane and a 5 ft bike lane. The view of the neighborhood was to implement the existing plans created by EDAW and approved by the City Commission in 2002.
The Committee indicated that they had not received any plans and could not discuss the matter until receiving plans. Present at the meeting were David Henderson, the Bicycle / Pedestrian Coordinator for the County and Jeff County Traffic Engineer for the County who was pointed to as the responsible party for approving any plans. Mr. Cohen spoke very strongly in favor of bike lanes separated from the auto lanes. He indicated he had not seen any plans for Euclid Avenue Improvements, but upon receiving plans he would review them and likely suggest alternatives that would require separated bike lanes.
There did indeed appear to be an adversarial quality of the meeting with the bikeway members favoring separated 4 ft bikelanes on Euclid as was designated in the Bikeways Masterplan and representatives of Flamingo Neighborhood continuing to advocate for implementation of the plan for Euclid adopted by the City Commission as a part of the CIP Basis of Design Report. It is likely that we will need to identify other venues for the resolution of the conflict, i.e.,
- Designated Responsible Departments -- CIP; Public Works
- Assistant City Manager Jorge Gomez / City Manager Jorge Conzalez
- CIP Oversight Committee
- Historic Preservation Board
- City Commission
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