City Council Mobility & Infrastructure Committee · Tuesday, November 8, 2022 · City Council Digest

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of October 25, 2022

packet pp.5–6

▶ Watch from 1:31 Open packet at p.5 ↗

Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 10-25-22 City Council Mobility & Infrastructure Page 1 Committee Minutes CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Mobility & Infrastructure Committee 6:30 PM Council Chambers, 135 E. October 25, 2022 MINUTES Sunset Way, Issaquah WA

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Intelligent Transportation Systems Plan ID 1299

60 min · Isabel Diaz, Senior Transportation Engineer · packet pp.7–27

Topics: Transportation

Open packet at p.7 ↗

Staff report:

As Issaquah and the surrounding region continues to grow and develop, we recognize traffic congestion cannot be addressed by simply adding more lanes for automobile traffic. Adding automobile traffic capacity is not only impractical from a cost standpoint, it also is contrary to many of the values held by our city, such as environmental sustainability, access to multimodal transportation alternatives, and safe walkable communities.

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0:04 ↗ good evening it's 6 30. we'll call the

0:08 ↗ November 8th meeting of the city council

0:11 ↗ mobility and infrastructure committee to

0:13 ↗ order

0:15 ↗ tonight we have one item on the agenda

0:18 ↗ that we'll get to

0:19 ↗ after a couple of preliminary items

0:23 ↗ the first item is public comment we

0:25 ↗ continue to have a hybrid aspect to our

0:27 ↗ meetings and public comment could either

0:29 ↗ be

0:30 ↗ in person or through the computer and

0:36 ↗ I'll check to see if anyone has signed

0:39 ↗ up for a public comment or anyone online

0:41 ↗ is giving an indication that they want

0:43 ↗ to have an opportunity for public

0:45 ↗ comment

0:48 ↗ chair Joe no one has signed up prior to

0:51 ↗ the meeting and we have no online

0:53 ↗ attendees at the moment very good

0:57 ↗ if you have comments on this topic or

1:00 ↗ any other topic the city council might

1:02 ↗ be tackling we are encouraged to send an

1:06 ↗ email to City

1:08 ↗ councilwa.gov

1:10 ↗ the council president Deputy council

1:13 ↗ president typically look at those and

1:15 ↗ send a response out to the email

1:20 ↗ all right then we'll move on to approval

1:22 ↗ of minutes

1:24 ↗ at the minutes of October 25th been

1:25 ↗ reviewed by members of the committee

1:29 ↗ okay do I have a motion

1:31 ↗ I will move to approve the minutes as

1:34 ↗ attached since tonight's agenda packet

1:36 ↗ second that motion all right any

1:38 ↗ discussion

1:40 ↗ all those in favor please say aye aye

1:44 ↗ opposed

1:45 ↗ all right that carries unanimously 3-0

1:47 ↗ approval of October 25th

1:50 ↗ 22 minutes

1:53 ↗ all right that takes us to item id 1299

1:56 ↗ the intelligent Transportation

1:58 ↗ Assistance Plan

1:59 ↗ and I was hearkening back to the good

2:01 ↗ old days in 2007 when we had just put up

2:04 ↗ the internal intelligent transportation

2:06 ↗ system and I remember looking at all the

2:10 ↗ TVs and the the monetary room and

2:12 ↗ marveling at how modern it had become in

2:15 ↗ terms of timing of lights and the way

2:17 ↗ that we were able to to meet traffic

2:20 ↗ challenges as they came up after

2:23 ↗ reviewing the packet for this meeting

2:24 ↗ I'm quite impressed with the advances

2:27 ↗ that have been made and I'm anxious to

2:29 ↗ hear more about the system and we have

2:32 ↗ Isabel Diaz senior Transportation

2:34 ↗ engineer with us tonight for a staff

2:36 ↗ report and presentation good evening

2:40 ↗ good evening and thank you

2:43 ↗ I will be sharing my screen very soon

2:54 ↗ okay good evening and thank you for the

2:57 ↗ presentation Kansas council member Joe I

2:59 ↗ am as you have mentioned I'm a misado

3:01 ↗ Diaz the traffic signal operations

3:03 ↗ engineer and I will be from public works

3:06 ↗ and department and I will be speaking

3:09 ↗ about the its plan objectives

3:12 ↗ its as we can remember stands for

3:15 ↗ intelligent transportation system and

3:18 ↗ its is the use of data and technology

3:21 ↗ for traffic management operations and

3:24 ↗ maintenance

3:25 ↗ I the its plan has been identified in

3:30 ↗ the 2022 budget so that we could

3:35 ↗ look at technology needs across the city

3:39 ↗ and we could and eventually propose its

3:44 ↗ projects to be implemented through the

3:47 ↗ plan

3:51 ↗ tonight we will be presenting three key

3:54 ↗ elements of the its plan which include

3:56 ↗ the mission goals and objectives and the

4:01 ↗ purpose will be to be able to prioritize

4:04 ↗ the its projects I'm sorry to be able to

4:08 ↗ I prioritize the its objectives the

4:11 ↗ prioritization of the its projects would

4:13 ↗ come later during the development of the

4:17 ↗ its plan

4:21 ↗ the reason why we need to prioritize the

4:24 ↗ objectives is because as I mentioned

4:27 ↗ later in the plan we will be developing

4:29 ↗ a list of projects and and

4:38 ↗ blanking here we will be developing a

4:41 ↗ list of project and strategy strategies

4:43 ↗ related to ideas

4:45 ↗ and for these projects we want to make

4:49 ↗ sure that the objectives that we

4:52 ↗ identify or we finalize we address these

4:56 ↗ objectives with the its

4:59 ↗ projects and initiatives that we will be

5:01 ↗ proposing

5:03 ↗ and

5:04 ↗ through the process we have gotten

5:08 ↗ input from stakeholders and after based

5:13 ↗ on that input that we got from different

5:15 ↗ stakeholders we have developed a list of

5:18 ↗ goals and objectives and what we want to

5:22 ↗ do with tonight's meeting is to get the

5:26 ↗ direction from the comedy on what are

5:30 ↗ the top transportation technology

5:32 ↗ objectives that the city should address

5:34 ↗ for each of the its ground goals

5:37 ↗ or if should the city

5:39 ↗ prioritize additional objectives

5:47 ↗ Justice

5:49 ↗ talk a little bit of what we have done

5:51 ↗ with the ITA so far and what our

5:53 ↗ timeline is we kicked off the project on

5:57 ↗ April of this year with some assessment

6:01 ↗ of the its equipment that we have and in

6:06 ↗ addition to that we have gathered public

6:08 ↗ and stakeholder input and based on this

6:12 ↗ input that we have got and we created

6:15 ↗ draft at least a draft list of goals and

6:18 ↗ objectives

6:20 ↗ and and that occurred in September and

6:24 ↗ between September and now we have

6:28 ↗ we have gathered the feedback from the

6:32 ↗ Transportation Advisory Board from the

6:34 ↗ tab and now from the mobility and

6:36 ↗ infrastructure committee so we can

6:38 ↗ finalize those goals and those

6:41 ↗ objectives specifically and after we get

6:45 ↗ the your input on the top objectives

6:50 ↗ that we should be addressing with the

6:52 ↗ its plan

6:53 ↗ the idea is that we can create these

6:56 ↗ lists of projects and strategies by the

6:58 ↗ end of this year after we create that

7:01 ↗ list of projects and strategies we would

7:04 ↗ return to the transportation Advisory

7:06 ↗ Board and also with uh to the mobility

7:09 ↗ and infrastructure input the same way

7:12 ↗ that we are

7:15 ↗ prioritizing the objectives we will then

7:18 ↗ be prioritizing the list of projects

7:20 ↗ that we will be proposing with the its

7:22 ↗ plan

7:23 ↗ after we do that we will draft a an its

7:29 ↗ plan so we can present to the city

7:31 ↗ council and that will occur during

7:33 ↗ spring next year

7:40 ↗ when we right when we kicked off the its

7:44 ↗ plan

7:45 ↗ we

7:46 ↗ presented to the tab the overview of the

7:51 ↗ plan and try to get

7:54 ↗ feedback from them on what what were the

7:57 ↗ top uh Transportation related

8:00 ↗ data and Technology

8:02 ↗ areas that we should be the the that we

8:06 ↗ with the plan should be addressing and

8:09 ↗ the recommendation that the tab give

8:12 ↗ gave us was to get the input from the

8:16 ↗ public on that and in response to that

8:19 ↗ we had released a community survey

8:22 ↗ to get the transportation and data

8:25 ↗ technology areas that the community was

8:28 ↗ most interested that the city would be

8:31 ↗ working on through the its plan

8:34 ↗ we

8:37 ↗ kind of divided that

8:40 ↗ areas where we should be investing in

8:42 ↗ its in five

8:44 ↗ in five different topics and the way

8:48 ↗ that we drafted the survey was to have

8:52 ↗ the community rank those areas from

8:55 ↗ highest priority to the lowest priority

8:58 ↗ in order from highest to lowest

9:00 ↗ and the data that was selected by the

9:05 ↗ most as the highest priority was

9:07 ↗ traveler information with 34 percent of

9:11 ↗ responders

9:13 ↗ putting it as the top priority

9:16 ↗ followed by safety as signals and

9:19 ↗ performance measures which accounted for

9:23 ↗ about 25 percent each of the responders

9:27 ↗ selecting it as the highest priority

9:29 ↗ topic

9:32 ↗ now with public transportation and

9:35 ↗ environmental impact was worth the two

9:38 ↗ areas that were selected the lease as

9:41 ↗ the top priority with 13 and 5 percent

9:46 ↗ um

9:47 ↗ 13 for public transportation and five

9:49 ↗ percent for environmental impact

9:54 ↗ from each of those areas we also

9:59 ↗ and and something I should mention also

10:03 ↗ that we have we're the number of

10:04 ↗ responders that we received through the

10:06 ↗ community surveys were

10:08 ↗ 160 responses from from from the

10:12 ↗ communities

10:13 ↗ and between in on each of the areas of

10:17 ↗ the transportation topics that we

10:19 ↗ presented we also

10:21 ↗ provided different choices or different

10:25 ↗ areas where we could

10:29 ↗ invest on for each specific

10:32 ↗ area like for example for traveler

10:35 ↗ information the area among those choices

10:38 ↗ the area that was selected the most was

10:40 ↗ travel times it became very clear that

10:44 ↗ the community was interested in in the

10:46 ↗ city investing or addressing travel

10:48 ↗ times with the technology data

10:53 ↗ with safety at signals the two areas

10:57 ↗ that were of most concerned was

10:59 ↗ pedestrian safety in particular

11:01 ↗ pedestrian Crossing conflicts and the

11:04 ↗ visibility of pedestrians at signalized

11:07 ↗ intersections

11:11 ↗ for the performance measures and this is

11:15 ↗ one that kind of

11:18 ↗ repeated because for the performance

11:22 ↗ measure the measure that was selected as

11:26 ↗ the the highest priority was

11:29 ↗ Corridor travel times and for that in

11:32 ↗ particular we

11:34 ↗ we also provided different options of

11:39 ↗ performance measure measures specific to

11:41 ↗ safety

11:43 ↗ and when we did that the performance

11:46 ↗ measure measurement that was selected

11:49 ↗ selected as the highest priority for

11:52 ↗ safety

11:54 ↗ if I can

11:57 ↗ find that

12:01 ↗ was a look close or they call the close

12:04 ↗ contacts and intersections those areas

12:07 ↗ where focusing on providing technology

12:10 ↗ that would

12:12 ↗ prevent conflicts from happening or

12:16 ↗ crashes from happening close contacts at

12:18 ↗ signal signalized intersections and the

12:22 ↗ one that was selected as the list was

12:26 ↗ it was actually like red light running

12:29 ↗ that was

12:31 ↗ um the the one specific area that they

12:35 ↗ were

12:36 ↗ least selected as high priority inside

12:38 ↗ safety

12:40 ↗ performance measures that we could uh

12:44 ↗ look at or evaluate

12:51 ↗ in addition to the community survey we

12:54 ↗ have

12:55 ↗ gotten feedback from Key internal

12:59 ↗ stakeholder and

13:02 ↗ also we have identified both internal

13:05 ↗ several internal and external

13:08 ↗ stakeholders as well to be involved to

13:10 ↗ get involved with the its plan process

13:13 ↗ from the internal stakeholders we had

13:15 ↗ identified the Departments of Public

13:18 ↗ Works information technology or a team

13:21 ↗ Community Planning and Development

13:24 ↗ Communications City Administration and

13:27 ↗ the police

13:28 ↗ for external stakeholders we had

13:30 ↗ identified Issaquah Community Washington

13:33 ↗ the city of Sammamish is sapphire and

13:36 ↗ rescue and King County

13:38 ↗ jeans internal stakeholders also develop

13:42 ↗ in our creation of objectives that we

13:46 ↗ will be presenting later for the ATS

13:49 ↗ plan

13:53 ↗ after receiving input from both the

13:55 ↗ community

13:57 ↗ surveys and also from Key stakeholders

14:00 ↗ we have

14:03 ↗ developed uh three the three components

14:08 ↗ initial components of the its plans

14:10 ↗ which are the state in the mission

14:12 ↗ statement the goals and objectives or

14:14 ↗ the its plan

14:16 ↗ and the mission statement that we had

14:19 ↗ identified is to improve the safety

14:22 ↗ Health security

14:24 ↗ and movement of goods people and

14:27 ↗ services for all modes of the

14:28 ↗ transportation Network by using Advanced

14:31 ↗ Technologies establishing agency

14:34 ↗ coordination

14:35 ↗ maximizing existing capacity and

14:37 ↗ infrastructure and providing real-time

14:41 ↗ traveler information

14:43 ↗ so this is the mission statement that

14:46 ↗ basically encompasses all the areas that

14:50 ↗ we have seen that were most important

14:52 ↗ for the that we are

14:56 ↗ address with the its plan

15:02 ↗ goals

15:03 ↗ in terms of our plan will be guiding

15:06 ↗ statements that will set the priorities

15:08 ↗ when we Implement its Solutions

15:13 ↗ and the six goals that we have

15:15 ↗ identified for the its plan are to

15:18 ↗ improve Safety and Security of the

15:21 ↗ transportation system

15:23 ↗ to improve the efficiency of the

15:25 ↗ transportation system

15:27 ↗ provide accurate traveler information

15:31 ↗ Implement cost efficient its

15:34 ↗ infrastructure

15:36 ↗ integrating its projects with regional

15:39 ↗ partners

15:40 ↗ and monitoring

15:42 ↗ Transportation performance measures

15:49 ↗ for each one of the goals we have

15:53 ↗ created a list of objectives that we

15:57 ↗ could evaluate

15:59 ↗ and in terms of this plan the objectives

16:02 ↗ are ways to meet the goals that we have

16:06 ↗ identified

16:08 ↗ the least these out all the list of

16:11 ↗ objectives that we were evaluating were

16:14 ↗ presented to the tab on our October

16:17 ↗ meeting and we have discussions about

16:21 ↗ all the the the the objectives that

16:25 ↗ could be used to meet each one of the

16:29 ↗ goals and the go and on your packet we

16:32 ↗ have

16:33 ↗ we haven't included in the agenda

16:35 ↗ additional objectives that were also

16:38 ↗ considered but the ones that we will be

16:40 ↗ presenting on these tables are the top

16:44 ↗ three ones include or in compass the top

16:47 ↗ three ones that the transportation

16:50 ↗ Advisory Board selected as high as

16:52 ↗ priority for the its plan

16:56 ↗ to improve the Safety and Security of

17:00 ↗ the transportation system the three

17:02 ↗ goals identified by the tata's highest

17:05 ↗ priority were two excuse me we have a

17:08 ↗ question so yeah I'll recognize

17:10 ↗ councilmember D Michelle

17:12 ↗ uh thanks Isabel so I I just needed

17:16 ↗ clarification when I was reading through

17:17 ↗ the packet is our

17:20 ↗ um task tonight of the top three goals

17:24 ↗ is our task to identify what we consider

17:26 ↗ the top goal is that for each area or or

17:30 ↗ are we looking at all six

17:34 ↗ and identifying the top objectives

17:37 ↗ are we going to go area by areas at the

17:40 ↗ idea it will be at the at all the sixth

17:43 ↗ and by objectives identify what are the

17:47 ↗ top goals and if if we need to be

17:51 ↗ addressing or prioritizing another sorry

17:55 ↗ another objective another objective

17:58 ↗ objective to meet the goals if we need

18:01 ↗ to identify

18:03 ↗ another objective or prioritize

18:05 ↗ different objectives to be included on

18:08 ↗ our its plan uh we we want to hear that

18:12 ↗ yeah

18:15 ↗ thank you

18:18 ↗ W present Hall thank you

18:21 ↗ um can you just before we get into the

18:24 ↗ objectives can you clarify what is the

18:26 ↗ outcome of prioritizing objectives are

18:29 ↗ we going to do all the objectives

18:31 ↗ including the additional objectives and

18:32 ↗ those are just the first ones up or

18:34 ↗ can you walk through that that is a

18:37 ↗ great question and is actually the

18:38 ↗ reason why we are selecting it gets us

18:43 ↗ to the reason why we are selecting a

18:47 ↗ certain number of objectives and for the

18:51 ↗ since we have identified the six goals

18:54 ↗ and our

18:56 ↗ our goal is to meet

18:59 ↗ to address each one of these goals but

19:03 ↗ we won't necessarily address all the

19:06 ↗ objectives and the projects that we will

19:08 ↗ be providing we want to

19:12 ↗ make sure that and they could over

19:14 ↗ overlap like a single project could

19:17 ↗ overlap between different objectives and

19:19 ↗ goals but we want to make sure that we

19:23 ↗ address the top the top objectives that

19:26 ↗ we identify for the its project

19:28 ↗ bam its plan

19:38 ↗ and I don't think I have started yet on

19:40 ↗ the identifying the objectives okay so

19:42 ↗ for uh the first goal to improve the

19:45 ↗ Safety and Security of the

19:46 ↗ transportation system we have identified

19:49 ↗ the top three goals objectives as

19:52 ↗ identified near-miss collisions crashes

19:56 ↗ and moral conflicts impacting all users

20:00 ↗ of the transportation system including

20:02 ↗ walking biking driving

20:04 ↗ Etc

20:05 ↗ improve the emergency response and

20:08 ↗ clearance times

20:10 ↗ Implement and maintain its technology

20:13 ↗ and strategies that proactively work to

20:16 ↗ prevent incidents from occurring so it

20:18 ↗ is evident that we are

20:20 ↗ um those three goals are focusing on

20:24 ↗ preventing or addressing

20:27 ↗ safety on or collisions prevent the

20:30 ↗ technology that prevents

20:33 ↗ police incident from happening and

20:36 ↗ collisions and also

20:38 ↗ reducing emergency response time

20:43 ↗ to improve the efficiency of the

20:45 ↗ transportation system the top three

20:47 ↗ objectives

20:49 ↗ identified are to prioritize Transit

20:52 ↗ friendly projects that are safe

20:53 ↗ accessible

20:55 ↗ Equitable and convenient transportation

20:58 ↗ options for all the users

21:02 ↗ anticipate and plan for future growth by

21:05 ↗ leveraging technology

21:07 ↗ and reduce environmental impacts and

21:10 ↗ encourage alternate modes in particular

21:13 ↗ those modes that reduce the single

21:16 ↗ occupant vehicle tricks

21:25 ↗ for our third goal of providing accurate

21:28 ↗ traveler information

21:30 ↗ the three objectives identified are to

21:33 ↗ obtain maintain and provide

21:36 ↗ city-owned traveler information

21:38 ↗ including Advanced and real-time

21:41 ↗ information about construction and work

21:43 ↗ zones real-time incident information

21:47 ↗ real-time road condition at weather and

21:50 ↗ weather information at key locations

21:52 ↗ that we know that

21:54 ↗ already have issues

21:58 ↗ adapt and automate information to

22:00 ↗ traveler information media Outlets based

22:03 ↗ on the needs and tendencies of users

22:07 ↗ provide City managed information to

22:10 ↗ frequently use providers like for

22:12 ↗ example Waze Google Map and these other

22:16 ↗ applications

22:21 ↗ develop for the goal to develop and

22:23 ↗ deploy cost efficient its infrastructure

22:28 ↗ the top objectives identified were to

22:31 ↗ deploy technology that is flexible

22:34 ↗ scalable and integrates easily with

22:36 ↗ existing and planned infrastructure

22:38 ↗ improvements

22:40 ↗ can procure and deploy technology with

22:43 ↗ high benefit to cost ratio recognizing

22:46 ↗ staff responsibilities and the time to

22:49 ↗ operate the its

22:51 ↗ well

22:52 ↗ Solutions

22:54 ↗ deploy sustainable technology that that

22:57 ↗ can be maintained over the years

22:59 ↗ considering the cost for maintenance and

23:02 ↗ replacing equipment as well

23:10 ↗ for our fifth goal of integrating City

23:13 ↗ its projects with regional partners

23:16 ↗ the objectives identified

23:19 ↗ are to continue and coordinate

23:23 ↗ and to con continue to coordinate and

23:25 ↗ integrate projects with other agencies

23:29 ↗ promote the interoperability of regional

23:32 ↗ its systems and devices to effectively

23:35 ↗ manage the system across jurisdictions

23:38 ↗ participate in collaborative

23:40 ↗ opportunities to align a region-wide its

23:43 ↗ Vision following the completion of the

23:45 ↗ its plan

23:49 ↗ our sixth sixth goal of monitoring the

23:52 ↗ transportation performance measure

23:55 ↗ the top objectives identified are to

23:57 ↗ collect and record Transportation data

24:00 ↗ such as traffic volume speed Loop

24:03 ↗ occupancy and incident data

24:05 ↗ maintain a GIS database of the its

24:08 ↗ equipment

24:11 ↗ procure Transportation data management

24:13 ↗ systems for collecting storing analyzing

24:17 ↗ and deploying Transportation data

24:19 ↗ performance measures to provide an

24:21 ↗ example for that is an app dashboard

24:23 ↗ application that those that provide that

24:27 ↗ information

24:33 ↗ after we

24:36 ↗ get the final objectives for the its

24:39 ↗ plan

24:40 ↗ we will the next step will be to provide

24:45 ↗ that list of projects and strategies for

24:48 ↗ its implementation

24:50 ↗ these projects and strategies will be

24:53 ↗ will basically click on since consists

24:56 ↗ of near-term projects that will align

24:59 ↗ with the selected city of objectives

25:02 ↗ those projects will be the spacing

25:05 ↗ between one and three and five-year

25:07 ↗ implementation

25:10 ↗ you know the also the strategies will

25:13 ↗ also consider Staffing requirements and

25:16 ↗ planning level planning level cost

25:18 ↗ estimates for each project

25:22 ↗ the place of projects and proposed

25:25 ↗ strategy strategies will be presented

25:28 ↗ again for the transportation Advisory

25:30 ↗ Board review

25:32 ↗ and we estimate that we do that in at

25:35 ↗ the beginning of the year in January and

25:37 ↗ then to the mobility and infrastructure

25:39 ↗ committee for the review

25:42 ↗ later in in February

25:48 ↗ after

25:50 ↗ doing that we will be presenting an its

25:53 ↗ plan draft for city council review and

25:56 ↗ we estimate that that would be occurring

25:58 ↗ in Spring of 2023 the and the ultimate

26:01 ↗ goal would be to include the selection

26:05 ↗ of projects and strategies in the next

26:08 ↗ slide in the next cycle of six year CIP

26:11 ↗ process

26:18 ↗ and uh just to go back to the direction

26:23 ↗ that the that we will be

26:26 ↗ um asking for the from the comedy is to

26:30 ↗ to State what are the top transportation

26:34 ↗ technology objectives that the city

26:36 ↗ should address for each its plan goal

26:40 ↗ and should the city prioritize

26:43 ↗ additional objectives and as needed I

26:47 ↗ can go back to the tables of the goals

26:50 ↗ and objectives as as we receive your

26:54 ↗ Direction

27:00 ↗ thank you very much for that

27:02 ↗ presentation we'll go to questions from

27:04 ↗ the committee first and then open it up

27:07 ↗ for a public comment and then

27:09 ↗ the committee members will go ahead and

27:11 ↗ comment and try to give some direction

27:13 ↗ as we go I'll go ahead and open with the

27:16 ↗ first question thank you for that

27:18 ↗ in-depth presentation it's very clear

27:21 ↗ that a lot of thought has been put into

27:23 ↗ this and that we really want to try to

27:26 ↗ do it right as we go forward

27:29 ↗ the question I had concerned objective

27:31 ↗ number five or goal number five

27:33 ↗ integrate its projects with regional

27:36 ↗ Partners

27:37 ↗ um can you give me a little bit of

27:39 ↗ information are are other Regional

27:42 ↗ Partners actually doing anything like

27:45 ↗ this such that we can plug in with them

27:48 ↗ and actually integrate our systems or

27:51 ↗ are they ahead of us or behind us I

27:53 ↗ don't really have a good feel whether

27:55 ↗ washdot and samamas just let's just take

27:59 ↗ those two are doing anything in this

28:01 ↗ area and how we would integrate and plug

28:03 ↗ in to their system

28:05 ↗ I have a couple of examples

28:09 ↗ um although I don't have the specific

28:12 ↗ technical uh way of how they work but I

28:16 ↗ have a couple of samples of cities that

28:19 ↗ are currently coordinating with wash Dot

28:22 ↗ and and actually some the city of

28:25 ↗ Sammamish with their extension of the

28:28 ↗ its uh project the second phase of the

28:31 ↗ its project included

28:36 ↗ their connection to the what they call

28:39 ↗ the traffic Buster system on two old on

28:43 ↗ 202 I think the highway is still to the

28:46 ↗ one North uh goes east west

28:49 ↗ um

28:50 ↗ uh that those signals that are owned and

28:53 ↗ operated by wash Dot and with the

28:56 ↗ extension of the fiber connection from

28:58 ↗ 202 water signals to Sammamish uh they

29:04 ↗ were able to get that connection into

29:07 ↗ the wash DOT traffic Buster system

29:10 ↗ with uh also the City of Redmond

29:14 ↗ also has some coordination with wash dot

29:17 ↗ as well with their signals and we did a

29:21 ↗ little bit of research on when we

29:24 ↗ started our conversations with watchdot

29:27 ↗ on what

29:29 ↗ we had done in the past and we found a

29:32 ↗ in we after over 15 years ago there was

29:37 ↗ a some

29:42 ↗ coordination between Issaquah and

29:44 ↗ washdot where we we used to be able to

29:49 ↗ access their system

29:51 ↗ for signals and that are inside the city

29:55 ↗ that are on with from Washington and

29:58 ↗ vice versa they could

30:00 ↗ access our system as well it was

30:05 ↗ it was

30:06 ↗ like on an as needed basis

30:10 ↗ that where they would

30:13 ↗ coordinate the timings

30:15 ↗ um

30:16 ↗ and if we for specific scenarios we

30:20 ↗ needed to adjust watch the signals we

30:25 ↗ were able to do that at some point the

30:28 ↗ systems at this point have changed and

30:31 ↗ it is my understanding that when both

30:35 ↗ systems change we lost

30:38 ↗ uh that connection and we don't we don't

30:42 ↗ do that any longer but that's an that's

30:45 ↗ another option that's one option we're

30:47 ↗ integrating with city

30:50 ↗ um and coordination with other agencies

30:52 ↗ could help like try to get back to that

30:56 ↗ coordination and that is one

30:58 ↗ like like the simplest ways there are

31:02 ↗ others where we could the our

31:04 ↗ Technologies could

31:05 ↗ could talk to each other have uh that

31:08 ↗ connectivity between them but uh um an

31:12 ↗ easy way without investing uh with other

31:16 ↗ jurisdictions would be

31:18 ↗ having that

31:21 ↗ um

31:22 ↗ that ability to connect with uh

31:25 ↗ with for example wash that I

31:29 ↗ I know we could be very difficult at

31:32 ↗ this moment like having that

31:35 ↗ specific ability to change other

31:39 ↗ jurisdictions

31:41 ↗ um timings for example but uh back at

31:45 ↗ the

31:46 ↗ on the memo of understanding that we saw

31:51 ↗ before that we had in the past

31:54 ↗ it include uh it was an agreement where

31:58 ↗ we would let them know that that we

32:01 ↗ wanted to do that there must have had

32:03 ↗ some communication between them so that

32:06 ↗ there was that uh confidence of doing

32:08 ↗ that changes but they it was

32:11 ↗ it it was a very uh well communicated

32:14 ↗ effort when

32:16 ↗ we determined a need that we would let

32:20 ↗ Washington know that we were doing the

32:22 ↗ change and there was and why were we

32:25 ↗ were doing the changes and there was

32:27 ↗ this flexibility of changing uh the

32:30 ↗ traffic signal timings for a specific

32:33 ↗ particular need

32:36 ↗ okay thank you

32:38 ↗ let's go to goal number one improve the

32:40 ↗ Safety and Security of the

32:41 ↗ transportation system

32:43 ↗ last night in our council meeting we

32:46 ↗ approved a set of safety improvements

32:48 ↗ that would keep pedestrians a little

32:52 ↗ more safe as they're crossing the street

32:54 ↗ and some other improvements along the

32:56 ↗ way

32:56 ↗ could you comment a little bit on how

32:59 ↗ goal number one will increase the

33:01 ↗ walkability of our city and the ability

33:04 ↗ for all people to take those alternate

33:08 ↗ routes and take those alternate modes of

33:10 ↗ transportation instead of getting into a

33:13 ↗ car

33:17 ↗ one way I can although this could uh

33:22 ↗ get a little bit uh away from this and

33:27 ↗ talk more about Transit projects which

33:29 ↗ is on the second one but one way I can

33:32 ↗ think about and is specific to Transit

33:35 ↗ is to provide or prepare our equipment

33:40 ↗ our signals to be ready for Transit

33:44 ↗ signal priority and that is something

33:47 ↗ that is an alternative that we don't

33:50 ↗ have in the city and

33:52 ↗ for in doing that there will be a

33:55 ↗ process of deciding on what what we have

33:58 ↗ what do we want there there will be a

34:01 ↗ process of deciding what we have do we

34:03 ↗ want to provide for that traffic signal

34:06 ↗ Transit signal priority would be simply

34:10 ↗ prioritizing the signal entirely or it

34:14 ↗ would be a dedicated something uh like a

34:17 ↗ face dedicated to the transit signal

34:20 ↗ priorities so there are different ways

34:23 ↗ but that is one option that I can think

34:26 ↗ of that would

34:28 ↗ make Transit more appealing to

34:32 ↗ um

34:33 ↗ to be used instead of a vehicle

34:37 ↗ traveling

34:40 ↗ okay thank you and in the first

34:43 ↗ objective you talk about avoiding

34:46 ↗ near-miss collisions and crashes and you

34:50 ↗ want to make sure that the

34:51 ↗ transportation system for cars walking

34:54 ↗ and biking you know don't kind of

34:57 ↗ interact in a way that's going to cause

34:58 ↗ an accident in essence in Bellevue when

35:02 ↗ I'm walking around along Northeast 8th

35:05 ↗ the signal will give a pedestrian

35:09 ↗ priority in other words it's going to

35:11 ↗ turn to a walk sign five or ten seconds

35:14 ↗ before the green light goes on so that

35:17 ↗ the pedestrians get kind of a head start

35:19 ↗ and then they don't get hit on that

35:21 ↗ right hand turn for drivers that might

35:24 ↗ not be paying attention as their

35:26 ↗ pedestrians in the in the crosswalk are

35:28 ↗ we considering doing any of those type

35:30 ↗ of

35:31 ↗ pedestrian

35:33 ↗ kind of priority

35:36 ↗ tweaks to our system as well

35:39 ↗ we can consider them when

35:44 ↗ when we talk about identify near-miss

35:47 ↗ collisions

35:48 ↗ are more

35:51 ↗ of of providing a platform that would

35:55 ↗ identify those locations where more sub

36:00 ↗ susceptive of

36:03 ↗ of

36:04 ↗ um uh incidents from occurring

36:07 ↗ pedestrian timing it's another it's

36:12 ↗ separate from that specifically

36:14 ↗ but that is that is also considered an

36:18 ↗ its solution that we can provide I think

36:23 ↗ the term the term is delay signal delay

36:26 ↗ pedestrian signal delay

36:29 ↗ um but yes I am I I know which one it is

36:34 ↗ um and also the city of Bellevue I

36:36 ↗ wanted to mention the city of Bellevue

36:38 ↗ is actually

36:40 ↗ um

36:41 ↗ testing or have already a pilot a of up

36:46 ↗ including a platform that identify

36:49 ↗ near-miss collisions at signalized

36:53 ↗ intersections

36:55 ↗ and I think the city of Seattle as well

36:58 ↗ great thank you

37:00 ↗ I'll see if there are other questions

37:02 ↗ from committee members on this

37:04 ↗ uh council member D Michelle

37:08 ↗ um so Isabel uh let's go back to the

37:11 ↗ survey because I noticed uh that the

37:15 ↗ transportation Advisory Board had some

37:17 ↗ questions about it was surprising to

37:20 ↗ read the results because uh other

37:22 ↗ surveys that we've done safety has

37:25 ↗ always been number one and also the

37:28 ↗ environment was very

37:31 ↗ small compared to its place you know in

37:34 ↗ our

37:35 ↗ sensibility in terms of plantings and so

37:38 ↗ forth so I noticed that the tab kind of

37:40 ↗ questioned the results and and I just

37:43 ↗ was wondering if you want to tell us a

37:45 ↗ little bit more was this an online

37:47 ↗ survey did they come to the website to

37:49 ↗ take the survey and was there any kind

37:52 ↗ of demographic information gathered and

37:55 ↗ those kinds of information about the

37:57 ↗ survey itself yes there was something I

38:01 ↗ did not present the demographics but

38:03 ↗ there was some demographics gathered

38:06 ↗ from the survey responders the way that

38:08 ↗ we released the is with the community

38:10 ↗ the Issaquah Insider we released that

38:14 ↗ and provided a link on the emails so

38:19 ↗ um

38:20 ↗ um

38:21 ↗ uh community that were signed up for

38:23 ↗ these emails would

38:25 ↗ provide input on their surveys

38:30 ↗ and

38:35 ↗ you had mentioned that yes safe it is

38:37 ↗ all that safety signals is not but the

38:41 ↗ uh the way we presented is as the

38:45 ↗ transportation and data technology that

38:48 ↗ we should invest in on and there's these

38:51 ↗ different Alternatives and traveler

38:52 ↗ information seem to be the the one most

38:56 ↗ important for that the data most

38:59 ↗ important for responders to get

39:03 ↗ but then when we

39:07 ↗ provided information and performance

39:09 ↗ metric and and performance measures and

39:12 ↗ subdivided that

39:14 ↗ um

39:16 ↗ for the performance measures and so

39:19 ↗ divided that then then uh safety

39:23 ↗ data was all the safety specific ones

39:27 ↗ was visibly uh the the one of the

39:31 ↗ highest that they wanted to consider

39:34 ↗ with the the signals

39:41 ↗ then for the environmental impact

39:45 ↗ we it could be surprising as well but we

39:50 ↗ can also relate that

39:53 ↗ in terms of its we can get benefits side

39:56 ↗ benefits environmental side benefits

40:00 ↗ but it could become a little bit

40:02 ↗ difficult to find specific its solutions

40:05 ↗ that are specific to Environmental

40:10 ↗ yeah so that that was one that we

40:13 ↗ um not necessarily provided a lot of

40:16 ↗ options in terms of of

40:21 ↗ Technology Solutions because it would it

40:25 ↗ could be more of a side of a side

40:28 ↗ benefit that we can get from other

40:32 ↗ technologies that are

40:36 ↗ mainly to address

40:38 ↗ other of other areas

40:43 ↗ um and then I would too was interested

40:46 ↗ in this near-miss collisions

40:49 ↗ um

40:50 ↗ can you just what is a near-miss is that

40:52 ↗ like a car almost hitting a pedestrian

40:55 ↗ okay yes yeah and so in Bellevue their

40:58 ↗ uh they're monitoring that with cameras

41:01 ↗ and yes they are using cameras and an

41:06 ↗ online

41:07 ↗ I can't say uh it's an online platform

41:11 ↗ that they would identify the locations

41:14 ↗ that most near the most near collisions

41:17 ↗ are occurring and that way that gives uh

41:22 ↗ the city an idea where

41:25 ↗ are the areas that we that that that we

41:30 ↗ think that safety we should be providing

41:33 ↗ safety improvements to relate it on um

41:36 ↗ to signals I just you know I uh it was

41:40 ↗ kind of I just don't think that most

41:43 ↗ pedestrians if they almost got hit they

41:45 ↗ probably don't report that to anybody

41:47 ↗ and so I was just wondering how we were

41:49 ↗ going to gather that information so and

41:51 ↗ then my last question I saw a

41:55 ↗ terminology that I'd never seen before

41:59 ↗ what is a loop occupancy

42:04 ↗ for the detection the the detection the

42:08 ↗ occupancy of the loops

42:11 ↗ then and where I'm trying to find where

42:14 ↗ it was

42:16 ↗ uh it's under goal number five or no

42:19 ↗ gold number six monitor Transportation

42:21 ↗ performance measures and it says collect

42:24 ↗ and record Transportation data such as

42:26 ↗ traffic volume speed Loop occupancy and

42:30 ↗ incident data and I I had no idea what

42:34 ↗ it has to do with the the vehicle

42:37 ↗ density the traffic density

42:40 ↗ um

42:41 ↗ based on the yeah the loop occupancy a

42:45 ↗ way to measure the the density of

42:49 ↗ traffic on a corridor

42:51 ↗ ah okay thank you all right that's uh I

42:54 ↗ think that's all the questions I have

42:55 ↗ thank you

42:57 ↗ Deputy council president Hall just a

42:59 ↗ really quick one thank you

43:00 ↗ um I just want to clarify next steps

43:03 ↗ um in kind of long-term next steps too

43:06 ↗ so we're determining these most

43:09 ↗ important objectives with that

43:12 ↗ staff in the administration will then

43:14 ↗ come back with a list of

43:16 ↗ projects and strategies to implement the

43:18 ↗ its plan based on those object

43:21 ↗ prioritized objectives

43:23 ↗ then we'll actually implement the plan

43:24 ↗ and we'll have different data collection

43:26 ↗ or strategies happening and then with

43:30 ↗ that data that's coming back that might

43:32 ↗ inform even more capital projects or new

43:35 ↗ strategies in the future right so it's

43:36 ↗ kind of like

43:37 ↗ constantly being used as a loop to

43:41 ↗ inform new policy and stuff right

43:45 ↗ and and the idea of we uh

43:50 ↗ we are very thankful that the council

43:52 ↗ had a

43:54 ↗ chosen to

43:56 ↗ re have again the traffic signal

43:59 ↗ operations engineer position

44:02 ↗ um the but the idea is that we can

44:04 ↗ continue the its program it doesn't

44:08 ↗ as as we start identifying projects uh

44:12 ↗ within each

44:14 ↗ cycle of the 6cip we continue to

44:18 ↗ identify its projects that we can invest

44:21 ↗ on or or

44:24 ↗ improvements that we can work on

44:31 ↗ okay

44:32 ↗ I believe that concludes the question

44:34 ↗ portion of

44:36 ↗ the meeting from the members of the

44:38 ↗ committee we'll now open it up to

44:41 ↗ members

44:43 ↗ of the audience or anyone online that

44:45 ↗ would like to make public comment on

44:47 ↗ this subject

44:49 ↗ Deputy clerk do we have anyone online

44:52 ↗ chair Joe we have no virtual attendees

44:55 ↗ at this moment

44:56 ↗ and no one has signed up in the room for

44:58 ↗ public comment as well

45:02 ↗ do we have some of them like to come up

45:03 ↗ for public comment please come forward

45:05 ↗ yes

45:06 ↗ identify yourself and uh and go ahead

45:12 ↗ push the red or the button there at the

45:14 ↗ bottom there you go okay can you hear me

45:16 ↗ okay hi I'm Erica Boyd I'm a member of

45:19 ↗ the transportation Advisory Board I'm

45:21 ↗ your designated member tonight

45:23 ↗ um I think we're trying to cycle through

45:24 ↗ the whole board but I don't know if I'm

45:26 ↗ supposed to make public comment but if

45:27 ↗ it's helpful for some context for this

45:30 ↗ we had a really hard time

45:32 ↗ um I think understanding the Nuance

45:34 ↗ between some of these uh objectives

45:39 ↗ um and then uh Israel touched on it um

45:42 ↗ it was brought up uh but the we were

45:44 ↗ concerned about the I think just some of

45:47 ↗ the demographics and like the snapshot

45:48 ↗ of the survey that was put out um it

45:51 ↗ seemed like a pretty small sample size

45:53 ↗ and then um yeah I just didn't seem

45:56 ↗ reflective I think like councilmember

45:58 ↗ Michelle said of some of the historical

46:00 ↗ patterns and other surveys regarding

46:02 ↗ similar topics

46:08 ↗ Erica Boyd thank you for your service on

46:12 ↗ the uh Tab and and uh it's volunteer

46:16 ↗ uh people like you that keep us going

46:19 ↗ and I appreciate you coming out tonight

46:21 ↗ and making a public comment

46:23 ↗ anyone else that would like to make

46:25 ↗ public comment

46:26 ↗ all right I'll close the public comment

46:28 ↗ portion and then we'll go ahead and move

46:31 ↗ on to a discussion portion

46:34 ↗ of this item so is there anyone that

46:37 ↗ would like to go first with their

46:38 ↗ thoughts and comments

46:40 ↗ depth accounts president Paul

46:43 ↗ all right I guess I'll go first

46:46 ↗ um

46:50 ↗ I don't know um so

46:52 ↗ I have some general comments it does

46:54 ↗ seem like the highest priority

46:55 ↗ objectives are those most concerning

46:57 ↗ Life Safety uh information collection

47:00 ↗ asset management and um

47:04 ↗ multimodal Mobility options which does

47:07 ↗ seem right to me

47:08 ↗ the caveat to that is you know I have

47:12 ↗ the same concern that that tab hat I'm

47:14 ↗ we're policy makers here with absolutely

47:17 ↗ no technical background in this space so

47:19 ↗ I'm feeling kind of limited and

47:21 ↗ compelled to want to follow the lead of

47:24 ↗ subject matter experts like yourself

47:27 ↗ um but I do think determining alignment

47:29 ↗ with objectives and that future upcoming

47:32 ↗ list of projects and strategies does

47:34 ↗ seem like a worthwhile policy decision

47:36 ↗ for Council to be involved in and I

47:38 ↗ think that's appropriate I also think

47:39 ↗ the mission statement

47:42 ↗ um proposal is very much in our

47:43 ↗ wheelhouse but I think that's very much

47:45 ↗ in line with our strategic Mobility

47:46 ↗ goals our strategic plan even calls out

47:49 ↗ in particular uh driving efficiencies in

47:52 ↗ the mobility system which is called out

47:54 ↗ in the its plan or in some of these in

47:56 ↗ the agenda packet for tonight

47:58 ↗ um so I guess my overall comments are

48:01 ↗ sure the objectives seem like they're in

48:05 ↗ alignment with our core strategies but I

48:07 ↗ also wouldn't know if they weren't

48:09 ↗ necessarily based on my background I'm

48:12 ↗ curious what other council member how

48:14 ↗ other council members are showing up in

48:15 ↗ the space too but that's all I'm

48:17 ↗ thinking thanks thank you councilmember

48:20 ↗ D Michelle

48:21 ↗ yeah I agree completely uh and thank you

48:24 ↗ Erica for your comments because I was

48:26 ↗ struggling with the same uh issues I

48:29 ↗ think there's a lot of nuance here

48:31 ↗ there's some places where there might

48:33 ↗ even be over overlap between

48:36 ↗ um some of the objectives and the way

48:38 ↗ that they're written you think well that

48:40 ↗ could maybe go there and but that's not

48:42 ↗ our job tonight to to edit so

48:46 ↗ um

48:47 ↗ uh yeah I was kind of struggling with

48:50 ↗ they they all look like great objectives

48:52 ↗ so how would we order them especially as

48:57 ↗ council member Hall said without the

48:59 ↗ technical data you know given to us and

49:03 ↗ even then maybe we wouldn't understand

49:04 ↗ it so uh because that's really a kind of

49:10 ↗ expertise that we don't have as council

49:12 ↗ members so

49:13 ↗ um

49:14 ↗ uh

49:16 ↗ I think that we've got some I think the

49:18 ↗ goals I are absolutely right on uh I

49:22 ↗ think those goals are absolutely right

49:23 ↗ on

49:24 ↗ um so uh but I don't know exactly where

49:27 ↗ to go when it comes to prioritizing the

49:29 ↗ objectives as a council member okay

49:33 ↗ thanks

49:35 ↗ thank you for those comments

49:37 ↗ um I really appreciate the fact that a

49:41 ↗ great deal of thought has been put into

49:42 ↗ this and it's going to be an iterative

49:45 ↗ process as Council Deputy council

49:48 ↗ president Hall pointed out we're going

49:50 ↗ to see what works and try something and

49:53 ↗ build on what works and then learn from

49:56 ↗ that and then go on to the next solution

49:57 ↗ after that so from my point of view I

50:00 ↗ don't think we're going to get all six

50:01 ↗ of them done the first swipe through but

50:04 ↗ we're going to get some of them done

50:05 ↗ along the way learn what works and learn

50:07 ↗ why it works in a particular area in our

50:09 ↗ city and then do another one after that

50:12 ↗ and another one after that and hopefully

50:14 ↗ start improving the the overall flow of

50:17 ↗ traffic in our city the safety of

50:19 ↗ pedestrians and the ability for safe

50:21 ↗ biking and walking through the city as

50:23 ↗ we go forward and also increase our

50:26 ↗ responses to emergency situations so we

50:28 ↗ can clear those roads out when there is

50:30 ↗ an accident so we don't end up with a

50:32 ↗ three hour backup you know going through

50:34 ↗ our city were able to quickly see it

50:38 ↗ address it take care of it along the way

50:41 ↗ so I really appreciate the thought

50:43 ↗ that's been been put into this I think

50:45 ↗ from my point of view

50:48 ↗ goal number five is probably farther

50:52 ↗ down on the list I would even maybe make

50:54 ↗ it six in the sense that I think from

50:57 ↗ the information that I have we are ahead

51:00 ↗ of our other partners around Washington

51:03 ↗ wants to keep their lights because the

51:06 ↗ way they prioritize them they try to

51:09 ↗ make sure there's no backup on 90 as it

51:12 ↗ goes so they try to increase the stream

51:14 ↗ of traffic going through and that

51:16 ↗ decreases the seriousness of accidents

51:18 ↗ on 90s so I don't I don't think that

51:21 ↗ we're going to have much success

51:22 ↗ negotiating with them or kind of working

51:24 ↗ an agreement out I I may be wrong and I

51:27 ↗ would like to be pleasantly surprised

51:29 ↗ but from my point of view again the the

51:31 ↗ our system that we develop kind of needs

51:34 ↗ to be

51:35 ↗ serving our citizens in the best way

51:37 ↗ possible and I don't think that

51:39 ↗ Sammamish is ready to come down the hill

51:41 ↗ and connect with us and washed out is

51:43 ↗ kind of set in their ways in terms of

51:45 ↗ what they would like to do is my

51:46 ↗ impression but I do see that our our um

51:50 ↗ Andrea Snyder Deputy City Minister would

51:53 ↗ like to probably make a comment on that

51:59 ↗ uh I actually was hoping to make a

52:02 ↗ comment to address the the previous

52:03 ↗ comments that Deputy council president

52:05 ↗ made and council member G Michelle made

52:07 ↗ if that's all right

52:08 ↗ please do okay great thank you with this

52:12 ↗ project uh there are so many goals the

52:17 ↗ city has with our transportation system

52:19 ↗ and anytime we start talking about

52:22 ↗ Transportation it becomes incredibly

52:24 ↗ complex very quickly with lots of things

52:26 ↗ that we want to do and really I think

52:29 ↗ the point of tonight is to be able to

52:32 ↗ kind of narrow down

52:34 ↗ this system one system can't solve

52:37 ↗ everything it can't uh it can't solve

52:40 ↗ everything at once right to your point

52:43 ↗ councilmember Joe of you know let's take

52:45 ↗ things kind of incrementally and make

52:46 ↗ improvements and so uh the goal of

52:49 ↗ tonight is really to figure out do we

52:52 ↗ have these priorities correct uh are

52:54 ↗ these the things given all of our

52:57 ↗ aspirations all the things that we want

52:59 ↗ a transportation system and technology

53:01 ↗ that helps govern our transportation

53:03 ↗ system all these things that we want to

53:06 ↗ accomplish are are these the right ones

53:08 ↗ if we had

53:10 ↗ um

53:11 ↗ an its plan that addressed all of these

53:13 ↗ objectives would you think that that is

53:15 ↗ successful or are we missing something

53:18 ↗ and so in this list of of goals and this

53:21 ↗ list of objectives that you see before

53:22 ↗ you this evening are there glaring holes

53:25 ↗ that you're like well wait a second if

53:26 ↗ we don't address this one thing we're

53:28 ↗ really going to be missing the mark and

53:30 ↗ so that's really the question for you

53:32 ↗ this evening is wondering as we

53:35 ↗ establish the the scope of of our system

53:39 ↗ and come up with recommendations for

53:41 ↗ Technologies for us to adopt are these

53:45 ↗ the right objectives for us to be

53:46 ↗ hitting initially or are we missing

53:48 ↗ something really important so that I

53:50 ↗ think is the overarching goal for today

53:52 ↗ and I hope that's that's helpful as you

53:54 ↗ narrow down because as you stated it's

53:56 ↗ going to get real technical real quick

53:57 ↗ and so we want to make sure that we're

53:59 ↗ evaluating the technologies that we're

54:01 ↗ looking at these gaps in in our

54:04 ↗ intersections in our transportation grid

54:07 ↗ uh according to the right priorities and

54:10 ↗ objectives

54:12 ↗ thank you very much so I'll just finish

54:15 ↗ my comment I think that I would

54:18 ↗ prioritize five a little bit less than

54:20 ↗ even where it is now I again I don't

54:23 ↗ think our partners are ready to

54:24 ↗ necessarily have that relationship it's

54:27 ↗ not us it's them kind of thing right now

54:30 ↗ but uh the other thing I would comment

54:33 ↗ on is that uh I think that number three

54:37 ↗ provide accurate traveler information

54:40 ↗ is the burden is kind of taken up by the

54:44 ↗ internet for us in a lot of ways in the

54:47 ↗ sense that if I'm driving and I am going

54:50 ↗ down Newport and I'm stuck oftentimes I

54:53 ↗ can look on issaquah's Twitter

54:57 ↗ feed or I can look on their website for

55:00 ↗ an update or there's a watchdot update

55:02 ↗ in terms of there's a a crash on an

55:04 ↗ intersection that's backing everything

55:06 ↗ up and having repercussions all the way

55:08 ↗ to Newport

55:09 ↗ so it would be nice if we're able to

55:13 ↗ give real-time Transportation

55:15 ↗ information out there but from my point

55:17 ↗ of view a lot of that is put out through

55:20 ↗ the social media

55:22 ↗ Avenues and and pipeline that's there

55:25 ↗ already so

55:27 ↗ I think it's a little bit less of a

55:29 ↗ priority I would prioritize one and two

55:31 ↗ first and then get those done well and

55:36 ↗ figure out how it's been working how we

55:38 ↗ can improve it from there but that's uh

55:40 ↗ my initial thought on things Deputy

55:42 ↗ president Deputy council president Paul

55:43 ↗ do you have a comment

55:46 ↗ maybe so I'll just say it um

55:51 ↗ the only other thing and I don't know if

55:53 ↗ it's appropriate in this conversation or

55:55 ↗ not that I don't see bubbling up that

55:56 ↗ has bubbled up in all of our

55:58 ↗ conversations about

55:59 ↗ Mobility around town whether it was

56:02 ↗ during the development of the mobility

56:04 ↗ master plan or even before that is

56:06 ↗ the goal of residents ability to move

56:10 ↗ around town

56:11 ↗ of ease of movement around town not

56:14 ↗ necessarily just improving improving

56:16 ↗ movement or improving Mobility but

56:18 ↗ improving the ease of Mobility rundown

56:20 ↗ and focusing on I think the last time

56:22 ↗ its came up to us we talked a lot about

56:24 ↗ trying to prioritize movement in town as

56:28 ↗ opposed to movement through town I don't

56:30 ↗ know how or where that might show up in

56:32 ↗ this but that might need to be a

56:33 ↗ priority that we are mindful of too in

56:36 ↗ this

56:39 ↗ foreign

56:44 ↗ so going back to

56:47 ↗ um

56:47 ↗ uh goal number three

56:50 ↗ um and again here's where uh I would

56:53 ↗ probably need a lot more technical

56:54 ↗ information to really understand what

56:56 ↗ the possibilities might be I will just

56:59 ↗ say that when I'm driving up the

57:00 ↗ Issaquah Hobart Road and the sign that's

57:03 ↗ out there you know construction coming

57:05 ↗ or whatever is really helpful so I'm

57:09 ↗ thinking yes Twitter we could get

57:11 ↗ information in general from Twitter and

57:14 ↗ GPS and all kinds of things but it is

57:16 ↗ helpful as a as a road user or a driver

57:22 ↗ to know specifically that something's

57:24 ↗ going on in Issaquah and so that's kind

57:27 ↗ of what I was thinking when I was

57:29 ↗ reading this third goal and uh and it

57:32 ↗ was the top it was the top thing for the

57:35 ↗ survey that people said would help them

57:37 ↗ and so I'm thinking that's really

57:39 ↗ intriguing it would be kind of

57:41 ↗ interesting to do maybe some more

57:44 ↗ in-depth interviewing to find out what

57:46 ↗ that really meant was this you know why

57:47 ↗ why did that one rise to the top all of

57:50 ↗ a sudden

57:51 ↗ but

57:53 ↗ so I think it depends on how

57:57 ↗ that technology might be

58:01 ↗ distributed around the community

58:03 ↗ and how we might help people the other

58:07 ↗ thing I do know when I was with King

58:10 ↗ County is that when construction

58:12 ↗ projects are going on and are not

58:15 ↗ communicated with other agencies it

58:18 ↗ could be quite disastrous and so again

58:22 ↗ maybe there was some thinking there that

58:25 ↗ maybe the city needs to do a better job

58:27 ↗ of

58:29 ↗ communicating construction to both

58:31 ↗ drivers and agencies I think I need a

58:35 ↗ little bit more in-depth information to

58:38 ↗ really be able to understand that one

58:39 ↗ but I think there's a nugget there of

58:42 ↗ something that maybe we could be doing

58:43 ↗ better

58:45 ↗ yeah I think my thought on that was the

58:47 ↗ we already have the the big signs as you

58:51 ↗ come into town from the south and as

58:53 ↗ you're coming down the plateau

58:55 ↗ um that tell you that something's going

58:57 ↗ on and so

58:59 ↗ my comment was I don't think we need to

59:01 ↗ put a lot of effort into really

59:03 ↗ improving those I think we we have those

59:05 ↗ and in terms of

59:07 ↗ um watchdot on 90 they're putting those

59:10 ↗ signs out there because they're required

59:12 ↗ but that's not a city burden so it

59:14 ↗ wouldn't necessarily be part of part of

59:16 ↗ this plan I think we do a pretty good

59:17 ↗ job with construction in town

59:21 ↗ um don't ask my kids about Second Avenue

59:24 ↗ at all but but it was out there that

59:27 ↗ there was construction there was going

59:28 ↗ to be Paving there there were going to

59:30 ↗ be delays and we we published that and

59:33 ↗ put that out there as much as we could

59:35 ↗ so for City projects we do a pretty good

59:37 ↗ job in town putting up the construction

59:39 ↗ signs and so my thought is that we don't

59:42 ↗ necessarily need to prioritize it as

59:45 ↗ high as one and two but that was kind of

59:48 ↗ the basis of my comment there other

59:50 ↗ thoughts or discussion oh go ahead

59:53 ↗ Andrew Snyder uh thank you this is

59:56 ↗ Andrea just something for your

59:57 ↗ consideration and thank you so much for

59:59 ↗ your feedback or got regarding how uh

1:00:02 ↗ we're currently doing with planned

1:00:04 ↗ construction and planned activities in

1:00:06 ↗ the roadway we know from our user data

1:00:09 ↗ that one of our most popular features we

1:00:11 ↗ offer on our website are the traffic

1:00:14 ↗ cams and webcams in a snow event or a

1:00:16 ↗ flood event and that's because drivers

1:00:18 ↗ are craving information about what's

1:00:20 ↗ going on right now on the Steep Hill can

1:00:23 ↗ I get through and so as we look at goal

1:00:27 ↗ number three and the objectives under it

1:00:29 ↗ real-time information sure about about

1:00:31 ↗ construction but if there's incidents if

1:00:33 ↗ there's accidents if there is a tree

1:00:35 ↗ limb that's down on the road or a tree

1:00:37 ↗ that's on the road that happened in an

1:00:39 ↗ emergency that we're trying to address

1:00:40 ↗ getting that signage up in advance is

1:00:43 ↗ something that's very difficult to do as

1:00:45 ↗ we're responding in emergencies and so

1:00:48 ↗ but that's something that perhaps we

1:00:50 ↗ could have a system help us address and

1:00:53 ↗ make it easier to give drivers Advance

1:00:56 ↗ warning so if they're trying to get home

1:00:58 ↗ after a long day of work and we know

1:01:00 ↗ that Newport is closed or that Maple is

1:01:05 ↗ closed we can we can perhaps provide

1:01:07 ↗ signage in advance alerting them to that

1:01:09 ↗ fact for these incidents that just arise

1:01:12 ↗ that aren't planned and so just wanted

1:01:14 ↗ to make sure that that was something

1:01:16 ↗ that you were considering as well as you

1:01:19 ↗ debate this thank you

1:01:22 ↗ thank you other comments or thoughts

1:01:29 ↗ go ahead counselor maybe a hologram on

1:01:32 ↗ the Issaquah Hobart Road

1:01:34 ↗ beamed beamed out to the escrow home

1:01:37 ↗ where I wrote

1:01:38 ↗ we have to think really far out on

1:01:40 ↗ technology okay

1:01:47 ↗ Deputy council president Hall

1:01:48 ↗ last thing is just a question because it

1:01:51 ↗ does seem like we've gotten through this

1:01:53 ↗ kind of quickly is uh Isabelle right um

1:01:56 ↗ You Know You're a subject matter expert

1:01:58 ↗ in this space are we

1:02:00 ↗ would you have expected us to provide

1:02:02 ↗ any other feedback that we haven't

1:02:04 ↗ tonight is there anything that has been

1:02:05 ↗ surprising to you that you know that we

1:02:07 ↗ didn't discuss tonight

1:02:13 ↗ not really uh the

1:02:15 ↗ the one thing that I would uh

1:02:18 ↗ get from the comedy on specifically is

1:02:23 ↗ uh or more importantly is what if we are

1:02:25 ↗ missing something that we should be

1:02:27 ↗ prioritizing and that it's that is

1:02:30 ↗ something that we have heard so far from

1:02:33 ↗ your comments

1:02:36 ↗ um and on things to consider as we move

1:02:38 ↗ along with the its plan

1:02:42 ↗ so if I were to summarize it sounds like

1:02:45 ↗ the committee is supportive of the

1:02:47 ↗ project the committee is supportive of

1:02:50 ↗ the goals are there there's some

1:02:54 ↗ consideration that we'd like the

1:02:56 ↗ administration to take in terms of how

1:02:59 ↗ they're ranked or how they might fall

1:03:00 ↗ into place that comments have been given

1:03:03 ↗ in some concern about walkability and

1:03:07 ↗ mobility within the city for our

1:03:09 ↗ citizens as they try to get around

1:03:11 ↗ during the high traffic times in our

1:03:15 ↗ city along the way

1:03:17 ↗ does that seem to summarize our thoughts

1:03:20 ↗ and and

1:03:21 ↗ items threaded anything that we've kind

1:03:24 ↗ of missed

1:03:25 ↗ okay

1:03:27 ↗ as the administration got in everything

1:03:29 ↗ that that they need

1:03:31 ↗ yes I believe we have thank you so much

1:03:33 ↗ and I would add to the list that you

1:03:34 ↗ summarized we heard

1:03:36 ↗ um you know this coordination with other

1:03:38 ↗ jurisdictions that maybe that's

1:03:41 ↗ important but maybe let's not spend too

1:03:42 ↗ much time on that at risk of some of the

1:03:44 ↗ other goals and objectives I wanted to

1:03:46 ↗ make sure you know that we heard that

1:03:47 ↗ one as well

1:03:49 ↗ um and then uh really looking at this

1:03:53 ↗ um information and how much information

1:03:54 ↗ what what kind of information we provide

1:03:57 ↗ to Travelers what that looks like maybe

1:03:59 ↗ diving a little bit deeper into that as

1:04:01 ↗ we move forward looking at examining

1:04:03 ↗ different technologies that we could

1:04:04 ↗ possibly use

1:04:06 ↗ so thank you fantastic Isabel Diaz thank

1:04:09 ↗ you so much for the presentation tonight

1:04:10 ↗ and um we will now go on to our next

1:04:13 ↗ item on the agenda which is

1:04:14 ↗ announcements under number five

1:04:18 ↗ any announcements

1:04:23 ↗ okay that takes us number six and we are

1:04:26 ↗ to adjournment at 7 35 p.m thank you to

1:04:30 ↗ the committee members for an efficient

1:04:32 ↗ meeting this night tonight

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