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Board backs low‑hanging transportation measures including protected bike lanes and extended bus hours
Summary
Members recommended immediate actions such as protected or separated bike lanes on streets scheduled for repaving, proposed e‑bike or scooter share programs, and urged keeping buses free and expanding late‑night hours to increase transit utility.
Board members pushed a set of transportation ideas as achievable near‑term actions: protected bike lanes on streets already planned for resurfacing (example given for 9th Street), e‑bike and scooter share programs, and maintaining free bus service with expanded hours as a means to reduce vehicle trips.
"We're building bike lanes on 9th Street as part of the water main construction... since we're already gonna be repaving it, it'd be the time to then do something like this," one member said, urging the board to advocate the example to the City Commission. Members discussed coordination with the Connected City Advisory Board and capital improvement project timelines to seize repaving windows for lane reconfiguration.
