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Alta Planning outlines 18-month Active Transportation Plan; community feedback favors separated bikeways
Summary
Alta Planning presented a midterm overview of Claremont's Active Transportation Plan including baselining of crash and equity data, school walk audits, and Phase 1 engagement metrics (about 5,000 website visitors; 428 survey responses); the firm will return with draft infrastructure recommendations and phased concept plans.
Alta Planning presented an update on Claremont's Active Transportation Plan, an approximately 18-month effort that will produce pedestrian and bicycle recommendations, concept plans and prioritized projects for community review.
Mr. Brown of Alta summarized existing-conditions work (pedestrian and bicyclist crash data, sidewalk and crosswalk inventories, transit-stop volumes and equity datasets) and explained the project's first-phase engagement: four pop-up events, an in-person workshop, virtual workshop and advisory groups. He reported roughly 5,000 unique website visitors, 16,000 page views, about 1,200 map interactions and 428 survey responses during the fall/winter outreach.
The consultant said key priorities identified by participants include separated bikeways, intersection improvements, bike facilities, lower vehicle speeds and increased street shade. Alta has conducted school walk audits at K'1 schools and distributed a parent survey that yielded about 100 responses for the audited schools.
Alta will take preliminary infrastructure recommendations through the city's technical and community advisory groups, refine them based on engineering review and community input, develop conceptual cost estimates for priority corridors, then return with a draft plan for additional public review prior to formal commission recommendations and council adoption.
Students from Pomona College who spoke during public comment praised the ATP and encouraged the city to pursue state and regional grant sources such as the Caltrans Active Transportation Program (ATP), the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) and LA Metro first/last-mile funding for Gold Line connections.
Council members thanked Alta for the outreach and asked staff and consultants to ensure surveys are made available in multiple languages; Mr. Brown confirmed that the school-distributed survey was available in English and Spanish.
