Comments for “North Boise Bicycle & Pedestrian Neighborhood Plan”
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The Historic 15th Street Ridge to Rivers Bikeway is one of the most important connections in Boise, and needs to be preserved. It provides a healthy community alternative via Hill Road from Eagle to Boise, and from Boise to Meridian via 15th to the Boise River Greenbelt and Americana Blvd to Emerald Street, directly to the City of Meridian.
A protected Bike Blvd along this historic route would go far in providing safety and encouragement for all ages to make riding and/or walking a legitimate healthy alternative. This in turn would reduce air pollution, obesity, indigent health care costs and those impacts on community viability and economics, etc.. This valley had yet another news piece on bad air quality today, and in the past has had air pollution worse than Los Angeles. Some decision makers and officials know that bad air quality results in loss of federal funding, loss of jobs, and probably future employers looking elsewhere to relocate.
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This is a rough boundary of some of the highest concentrations and busiest major school, pedestrian, and bicycling crossings in the North End to go with the previous Community Assets Map comments. It is not all inclusive, nor is it intended to exclude other assets and issues.
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Community Assets Mapping for the approximate area from 9th to 15th - Hill Road to State, would include, but is not limited to;
1. an estimated concentration of 3,000 school children in the school environs of Washington Elementary/15th, North Jr. High/13th-15th-Fort, Boise High/13th-9th-Washington St, St. Joseph's Elementary/9th-Fort, Longfellow Elementary/9th, Giraffe Laff/9th, YMCA/11th.
Other major community assets and destinations in this pedestrian & bicycle core include; Hyde Park, Camel's Back Park, 15th Street Ridge to Rivers Bikeway - which connects to several of the neighborhood schools, parks and shopping, Dewey Park, Boise Co-op, multiple churches, Albertson's Marketplace, etc... Much of this child, pedestrian, bicycle, and interior vehicle traffic is crossways, against the cut-through traffic flow.
The current ill-advised routing of cut through traffic creates a very dangerous vehicular friction against the public health and safety of all these pre-existing sensitive land uses. In this open grid system, 7th Street to 6th Street from Boise Heights via Brumback is the most direct route for vehicles to downtown, which would reduce risks and impacts by the thousands per day vs using 8th & 9th & Brumback Streets. In the 1970s the Planning agencies determined that 18th Street, with no schools, parks, nor bikeways, but with much wider buffering parking strips, plus is a school boundary between Lowell Elementary on 28th and Washington Elementary on 15th, is in the best location to route traffic from Hill Road and Bogus Basin Road to State Street, clearly impacting thousands fewer school children per day. The cut-through traffic would be also far less at risk of crossing traffic accidents.Liked 3 times -
Would love to see sidewalks down 24th street towards Elm Grove Park.
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Please put in sidewalks. Kids would love to safely ride their bikes to Sunset Park and Lowell Elementary.
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This offset intersection of 17th and Resseguie St. Sees a significant amount of traffic. It is also the bike route to downtown. There are multiple problems. The initial T of 17th and resseguie heading north on 17th has no stops signs in any of the three directions. There are typically cars parked along the north side of resseguie st. The entire jog from the T to the northbound 17th st. Further west. This makes it extremely difficult for south bound traffic and pedestrians crossing at 17th and resseguie as well as northbound traffic turning west on resseguie. There is a speed bump in between the 17ths on resseguie but it doesn't have the desired effect as it isn't tall enough or abrupt enough to encourage traffic to slow. The pedestrian and bike traffic crossing resseguie is heavy in this section and the combination of speeding traffic, parking on the north side of resseguie and no stop sign makes for many close and scary encounters.
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The section of Sunset from 20th to 28th is very busy. People ignore the 20 mph speed limit regularly. With two parks in close proximity of this area a sidewalk would make it a lot safer for kids/adults to bike and walk.
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Paint the bike lane green at this intersection!
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Better bike detection to trip the light here. The median puts a squeeze on a bike/car going through at the same time. There is also slope to the bike lane here, so the cyclist feels like they are in the gutter. (which they are!) Not a problem for lane control cyclists, but an issue for younger riders.
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Cars use 26th as a thorough fare!!! Flying by. With cars parked where sidewalks should be, they have a highway. I think we should add sidewalks to 26th and add Chicane or two to slow cars down. Kids ride bikes, two intellectually delayed children live between Dewey and Ridenbaugh, and parents are transporting kids to/from school either by walking, biking or in cars. SLOW DOWN!!! Makes me furious. I don't think speed bumps will work, we need something more invading like a chicane to stop this nonsense speeding.
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Vehicles race up to this stop sign to turn left onto 9th. Sight distance is limited due to the building here. Enhanced crossing? I walk here regularly and have almost been hit and almost hit someone.
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the sight distance is limited here for traffic coming out of co-op parking lot, can conflict with left turns from northbound vehicle traffic. Pedestrian crossing is very dangerous. The large compactor does not help with sight distance for anyone. The southbound right turns are aggressive.
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repaint the center line! So many people drive down the middle of 9th street.
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take away corner parking spots. LOW VISIBILITY for pedestrians crossing to Goody's.
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This crossing is scary. Vehicle traffic often speeds through this heavily used area and the corner is blind for northbound traffic. A speed hump and more warning signs for the crosswalk are needed.
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6th street is huge in this section. Put bike facilities in and tie it in for bike routes on Bannock, Idaho, Main, Grove and build the network cyclists need! Same thing for 5th.
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Turn 18th into a bicycle blvd, paint bike lanes or sharrows. This is a very wide street and could be a real neighborhood gem. Traffic does move very fast here and it's a good bike corridor.
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Remove car parking near the crosswalk coming off the playground. It is very difficult to see students in the crosswalk when cars are parked within 5 feet of a it. A center crossing sign would be warranted in this school zone. Speeding and unsafe vehicle movements abound.
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I ride through here every day and cars are moving too fast. Failure to yield to pedestrians, low visibility due to cars parking close to the intersection. What can we do to encourage students to drive less? The Boise High traffic is some of the worst in the area.
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This is a TERRIBLE area for all peds/bikes. Crossing even with the light is dangerous. Crossings further down are too far apart for how many residences and services are in this area. Please look at the crash maps for this area;too many have died or been injured.
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put a bulb out here to slow traffic and decrease parking right on the corners.
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Bushes at residence on southeast corner reduce sight distance for peds/bikes/cars. I do like how they narrow the feeling of State Street.
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Right turn movements onto Camel back lane conflict with the bike lane. The sidewalk on the east side doesn't "feel" safe with the blind corner.
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Place a roundabout/traffic circle. Long crossing for peds and too many turning movements for it to be safe enough for young people.
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This is a ped/bike crossing for students going to Longfellow and North and needs traffic calming as well as marked crosswalks. In fact, treating every intersection with the bulb out/brickwork through the entire length of 13th from Fort to Irene would complete the neighborhood look/feel and slow traffic down. 20 mph speed is not adhered to and there are many people walking and biking in this neighborhood.
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