Date:  Thursday, March 29
Time:  6:30 pm
Location: 8th floor Conference Room of the One Texas Center

1. Striping on Shoal Creek.

City Council action on the morning of March 29: The two
neighborhoods are working on a new process for traffic calming
on Shoal Creek Blvd., with bicycle lanes.  Three neighborhood
representatives, Paul Nagy, Kerba Lampert, and Alan Lampert
were present for the meeting.  They will keep us updated as
the plans proceed.  Tommy Eden will assist them as needed.

2. Discussion about the decision-making process in the subcommittee.

It was agreed that decisions are generally made by consensus
in subcommittee.  In the unlikely event of a dispute
over the recommendations from the subcommittee, only the
UTC members present at any meeting would have a vote.

3. Recommendation to count bicycles on bike routes identified in
the Austin Bicycle Plan, whenever traffic counts are conducted.

Eric Ziegler has made an effort to locate a city where automated
counts of bicyclists are conducted.  He found several cities which
conduct manual counts, but none where the counts are automated.
Nobody at the meeting was clear about the reason why the equipment
could not detect bicycles.  Eric agreed to contact some other cities
around the country looking for one which conducts automated counts.
The subcommittee is still looking for an explanation why the
equipment for counting cannot distinguish between bicycles and cars.

4. Recommendation to keep both sidewalks on the Lamar Bridge open
permanently.

There was no opposition to keeping the sidewalks open.  The
transportation staff is working on a position paper on this
issue.  It should be completed next week.  The issue was
postponed until after the position paper is available.

5. Staff update, discussion and possible recommendation regarding
criteria for setting bike lane priorities.

Staff does not have a set of criteria for determining which streets
should have priority over others for new bike lanes.  Committee
members will bring ideas for such criteria to the next subcommittee
meeting, along with examples of which streets would be likely
candidates.  Then everyone will combine their lists and rank
each street based on all the proposed criteria.  Staff may offer
criteria to include, it they choose to participate in this process.

6. Recommendations for Enhancement Project proposals.

Tommy Eden agreed to request the presence of Parks staff at the April
meeting of UTC.  Transportation staff has four proposals so far:

a. Pleasant Valley trail from Oltorf St. to Burleson Rd.
b. Upper Boggy Creek trail
c. Sidewalks on Jollyville Rd.
d. Lamar Bridge extension

There were some concerns about two of the proposals.  The proposal
for sidewalks on Jollyville Rd. and the Lamar Bridge extension might
not meet the criteria for enhancement projects.  TxDOT might consider
sidewalks to be "business as usual," and, therefore, not meet the
requirements for enhancement funding.  The Lamar Bridge extension
may have two problems: (1) it has already received enhancement
funding, and (2) City Council will be considering funding the
extension using Capital Metro funds at the Council meeting on
April 5.  There was general agreement that the subcommittee should
recommend the two trails as a priority over the other two proposals.