Comments for “Boise Central Bench Neighborhood Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan”
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I live off Owyhee near Rose Hill and bike or walk to BSU when the weather is nice. Going down the west side of Capital Blvd. is a nightmare because there is no buffer between traffic and the sidewalk. If it rains, a person gets drenched with dirty road spray from the trucks and cars. Even when it is dry, there is dirt and debris flying at us.
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I walk in the neighborhood and am uneasy about walking in the street on Owyhee (Rose Hill to Overland) and Kootenai (Federal Way to Orchard).
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I live off the Kootnai/Latah cross-streets. I work at Boise State. I'd like to walk or bike to work. I don't because there's no sidewalk, walkway, or continuous bike lane that isn't occupied by parked cars. I'd like to see a safe way to walk or bike on Kootnai from Roosevelt through Federal Way/Protest Hill.
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Please add sidewalks, bike lanes, and some residential barriers between Vista and Federal Way on Kootenai. I bike this stretch on my way to the office every day, and often feel I'm taking my life into my hands particularly as I merge into traffic at Kootenai and Vista going east, or hit a pitted jag in the road just before the Jack in the Box going west. Since there's no sidewalk, cars must often veer to squeeze me in.
Also, I don't know what's possible to help the residents on this road, but it bothers me how their homes seem of secondary importance to moving cars and trucks between Vista and Federal Way. Can't we make it more inviting for the residents and the people who want to walk or bike here to enjoy greater separation from the traffic? For example, the additional barrier for the residents at Kootenai and Federal Way was a smart design choice.
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I’d like the city to make Kootenai Road friendlier for walkers, especially between Roosevelt and Vista, where there are a lot of families and children moving to and from neighborhood schools like Monroe and South.
This is a significant thoroughfare that through historical accident or by design, the city currently appears only to have designed primarily for vehicles and more recently for bikes. Since my family chooses to keep our cars at home as much as possible, my husband and I walk 45 minutes or bike 15 minutes each way along this route on our way to work. In the mornings, I see many people walking the edges of the road, which offer few sidewalks. Instead neighbors out and about on their own or with their dogs must skirt a few bikers and parked cars. I’m often on this route at about 3:30 PM, and every weekday see parents with small children, and the kids walking home from Monroe Elementary or South Junior High. The street design should not relegate them to walking in the road. They simply seem of secondary importance, and over the six years living in the neighborhood, I’ve never liked it. Instead, I sometimes imagine a walking pattern where sidewalks invite you out, and the act of walking in and of itself becomes more pleasurable instead of merely a way to get from Point A to Point B.
There have been neighborhood debates for years about how to accomplish such a goal given existing trees and the desire to maintain property, but I feel strongly that simply choosing NOT to put in sidewalks is a poor choice.
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Highway signs, cones, and other debris that YOU ACHD have left in the way of both sidewalks rending safe bicycling impossible. Surely you included clean-up in your contracts?
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This is the beginning of a very dangerous stretch heading south on Orchard which becomes Gowen Road. West Gowen Road (just west) is not a viable alternate as several riders have been attacked by junk-yard dogs riding through that stretch.
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The existing sidewalk on the west side of S. Barlow Ln. is very broken and lower than the rolled curb. Hence drainage backs up on the sidewalk rather than making it to the street.
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The north side of Emerald between Latah and Roosevelt is currently missing a sidewalk. If we don't have room for a sidewalk is it possible to level this area with the street to create a ped zone/ bike lane. It will require short retaining walls, but an additional 4' could make a big difference for peds here. Lets get creative and see what other cities are doing.
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Americana is a great path for pedestrians to connect to the parks and downtown, but it is very dangerous and bikes either use the sidewalk (undesirable- conflicts with pedestrians) or they must use the road which is more dangerous as cars don't typically respond will to bikes on the hill.
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Bike lanes on Emerald would be a huge improvement. It would really help to connect the neighborhood to the hospital, the mall and to make better connectivity between the Green belt and the bench.
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I ride out of the neighborhood on Houston towards downtown and find the only safe alternative is to ride wrong way down the sidewalk. I take it cautiously and yield to pedestrians, but the upper part of the hill has a narrow sidewalk. Any chance of making it wider? Bike lanes on American would be great, but then we'd need a safe way to get across Americana at the top that was realistic (current configuration too complex to get me off the sidewalk).
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There are kids in the neighborhood that bike on Irving, but there are a lot of speeders also. With no sidewalks, it is dangerous for everyone.
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The north side of Emerald is very dangerous from Marshall to west of Garden--the old Holland Real Estate Office. I have seen a lot of people using the north side and forced to walk in the street. Even a temporary paved walk way would be better than nothing.
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Please mark Alpine between Phillippi and Latah as a Bike Route.
Also find other east/west routes to get through the central Bench.
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Mark as a Bike Route that flows into Alpine please.
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Mark as a Bike Route that flows into Alpine please.
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Please mark the Bike Route from Fred Meyer to Latah since this is a safe route into downtown by connecting with the bile lane on Latah.
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An accessible sidewalk from the Americana/Emerald intersection all the way to Milwaukee would connect numerous subdivisions to the business district on Cole and Milwaukee. The traffic isn't as fast as Fairview and would really benefit the Central Rim.
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It would be great to have a sidewalk on the part of Roosevelt north of Emerald. Lots of all kinds of traffic here, people walk to church, etc.
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A sidewalk along Orchard next to the golf course would be helpful, especially for pedestrians. there is only a very narrow path through there.
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A good bike route to tha mall would be great for Tweens. Either Franklin or Emerald would be great.
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I realize that this is outside the scope, but there is no good bike route from this area to West Jr High, where many of our children go to school.
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There is a bike lane over the Freeway on Orchard, but it is covered in rocks, gravel, nails and other junk. Please sweep more often?
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A bike freindly route between Broadway and Federal Way could shorten many trips between the bench and South East Boise. The nearest way down the hill on either side are Protest and Bergeson.