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ALL RIGHT. THIS IS THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING OF THE METRO PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE. THIS MEETING IS BEING HELD PURSUANT TO KRS 61.826 AND COUNTY RULE FIVE A, THE ORDINANCE THAT WE HAVE, ITEM NUMBER TWO IS GOING TO BE HELD. SO WE HAVE ONE ITEM ON THE AGENDA TODAY AND THAT IS CROSSWALKS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, WE HAVE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. OH I'M JOINED IN CHAMBERS BY COUNCILMAN KENNEDY. I'M GOING TO GO FIRST WITH YOU BECAUSE I ALWAYS FORGET YOU SINCE YOU'RE ON THIS SIDE, COUNCILWOMAN CHAPEL AND COUNCILMAN BENSON, YOU HAVE ANYBODY ONLINE? ALL RIGHT? JOINED ONLINE BY COUNCILWOMAN PERVIS.COUNCILWOMAN SHAMIKA PARISH, RIGHT, HAS A EXCUSED ABSENCE. I THINK THAT COVERS EVERYBODY.
RIGHT. SO WE'RE JOINED IN CHAMBER BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JENNIFER KERN, PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR. THE FLOOR IS YOURS, MA'AM. GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU FOR HAVING US. I AM JOINED TODAY WITH OUR VISION ZERO LEAD, CLAIRE YATES. WE ALSO HAVE FRIENDS FROM LMPD AND ALSO FROM JCPS THAT HAVE JOINED US TODAY TO TALK ABOUT CROSSWALKS AND THE ONGOING PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH JCPS AND LMPD IN AROUND SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, AND SPECIFICALLY CROSSWALKS. SO PUBLIC WORKS, JCPS, LMPD. JUST GENERALLY I KNOW THAT I, I MEET WITH RACE OTHER THAN WHO'S HERE HE WORKS WITH JK ON SITE SPECIFIC CHANGES AND THEN I ALSO WORK ALSO OR MEET MONTHLY WITH THE OPERATIONS TEAM TO TALK ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS GOING ON, OPTIONS WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY, AND THE JCPS PROPERTY THAT INTERPLAY THERE, AND ANY WAYS THAT WE CAN HELP EACH OTHER.
CLAIRE MEETS MORE DIRECTLY IN AN ONGOING WAY, SPECIFICALLY WITH A CROSSING GUARDS. SO IF CLAIRE, IF YOU WANT TO GIVE US SOME BACKGROUND ON WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH AT AUDUBON. SURE.
SO THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF EVERYONE COMING TOGETHER AND DOING WHAT THEY CAN. SO. THE DISMISSAL AT AUDUBON AND DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET, SAINT STEPHEN MARTYR AS WELL, KIND OF CREATES, YOU KNOW, QUITE A BIT OF CAR RIDERS IN THE AFTERNOON. AND SO THIS WAS CAUSING SOME HEADACHES, I THINK. RIGHT, RIGHT THERE IN THAT IMMEDIATE AREA. AND SO METRO PUBLIC WORKS AND JC AND LMPD TRAFFIC GUARD UNIT ALL GOT TOGETHER AND SAID, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN WE DO ON ON CAMPUS? THEY ADDED A THIRD CAR RIDER LINE TO KIND OF REDUCE THAT CAR RIDER LINE BACK UP. WE ALSO ARE TRYING TO GENTLY REMIND PARENTS NOT TO BLOCK THE SIDEWALK SO THAT AS YOU'RE AS YOU'RE WALKERS ARE LEAVING THE SCHOOL THAT THEY CAN HEAD HEAD DOWN INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO KIND OF NEAR WHERE THEY START TO FAN OUT. AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO DO OUR RESPECTIVE PARTS, AND THE OPERATIONS ARE MUCH IMPROVED. SO THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE. SO OTHER OTHER PARTNERSHIPS, AND WE TOUCHED ON THIS A LITTLE BIT WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT SAFE ROUTES A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, BUT INCLUDE NOT JUST WITH LMPD BUT ALSO WITH KYTC ON ROAD SAFETY ASSESSMENTS IN SCHOOL, IN SCHOOL ZONES AND THEN SEMINARS WITH TRAFFIC GUARDS. YEAH, AND THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHERE WE'RE WE'RE KIND OF SUPPORTING EACH OTHER. SO LMPD TRAFFIC GUARD UNIT SUPERVISORS INVITED METRO AND KYTC PLANNERS AND ENGINEERS TO PRESENT AND SPEAK WITH A ROOM FULL OF TRAFFIC GUARDS, WHICH WAS REALLY AN EXCELLENT CONVERSATION TO START TO GET A BETTER SENSE KIND OF THAT BEHIND THE CURTAIN, BECAUSE SINCE THESE ARE THE FOLKS THAT ARE STANDING THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AND KIND OF ON THE FRONT LINES, YOU KNOW, HEARING FROM THEM WHAT
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THEIR NEEDS ARE AND KIND OF BREAKING DOWN THAT BARRIER BETWEEN WHAT THEY NEED AND HOW IT GETS DONE. THAT WAS REALLY, REALLY HELPFUL. AND THEN AND THEN ON THE LMPD TRAFFIC UNIT SIDE, THEY SWEATED IT OUT WITH US LAST SUMMER DOING ROAD SAFETY ASSESSMENTS IN TEN PILOT SCHOOL ZONES, WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT HERE IN JUST A SECOND. SO JUST A REFRESHER. I KNOW THAT WE DID TALK ABOUT SAFE ROUTES A COUPLE WEEKS BACK, BUT IF YOU WANT TO. YEAH. SO THIS IS SO WE COMPLETED THE FRAMEWORK KIND OF A THINK OF IT MORE LIKE AN OUTLINE FOR A POTENTIAL SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM IN LOUISVILLE. IF THERE WAS INTEREST. WE FINISHED THAT UP AT THE END OF LAST YEAR. AND INCLUDED IN THAT IS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TEN SCHOOL ZONES AS PILOT PROJECTS. SO KIND OF BOTH SHORT TERM AND MORE LONG TERM, THINK MORE COSTLY IMPROVEMENTS FOR TRANSPORTATION SAFETY IN THOSE TEN SCHOOL ZONES. AND THE FONT IS SMALL. BUT THERE AT THE BOTTOM IS A LIST OF THE TEN. WE ALSO WE ALSO TRY TO INTEGRATE OUR OTHER. PLANNING EFFORTS AND KIND OF OVERLAY THEM ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. AND IN THIS CASE, ALL TEN OF THE SCHOOLS WERE EITHER DIRECTLY ON OR IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO HIGH INJURY NETWORK CORRIDORS. SO WE'RE WE'RE TRYING TO PRIORITIZE LIMITED RESOURCES THE BEST WAY THAT WE CAN. AND THAT IS ONE TOOL FOR US TO DO THAT. OH, AND SORRY. AND I JUST PUT UP THE PICTURE. THOSE ARE JUST PICTURES OF. ONE OF THE CUT SHEETS OR SCHOOL PROFILES. SO THERE'S NINE MORE OF THEM IF YOU'RE INTERESTED. THANKS. SO.AND THEN JUST A REFRESHER ON THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF CROSSWALKS. WE ARE MOVING ACROSS THE BOARD TO HAVING MUCH MORE VISIBLE CROSSWALKS. SO HISTORICALLY YOU'RE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH THE TRANSVERSE LINES. SO ESSENTIALLY JUST TWO LINES ACROSS. AND WITH THE NEW CROSSWALKS AND THE UPGRADES THAT WE HAVE BEEN INSTALLING, MOVING TO A MUCH MORE VISIBLE LADDER STYLE CROSSWALK. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL, JUST THAT. YEAH, IT'S WE USE A MATERIAL CALLED THERMOPLASTIC, WHICH INCLUDES SOME BEADS THAT OFFER MUCH BETTER REFLECTIVITY AT NIGHT. YOU REALLY WANT THOSE? THE YOU REALLY WANT THE BEAMS OF THE HEADLIGHTS TO REFLECT OFF OF THAT THERMOPLASTIC AND KIND OF HELP CATCH THE DRIVER'S EYE. ANY ANYTHING TO GIVE A PEDESTRIAN A FIGHTING CHANCE. I THINK. IS THAT OUR LAST SLIDE? YEAH. YEP. SO YEAH THAT'S IT. OKAY. AND WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON SCHOOL CROSSWALKS. I SEE NO ONE IN THE QUEUE. YEAH. OH. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILWOMAN CHAPEL. ALL THROUGHOUT OF YOU. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. I DON'T LIKE A SHORT MEETING, SO OF COURSE I'M GOING TO ASK QUESTIONS. GOING BACK TO THAT PHOTO ON THE SECOND SLIDE, THE ONE WITH AUDUBON ELEMENTARY. OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A LOT OF STANDING WATER RIGHT THERE. SO IT'S WONDERFUL THAT THERE'S A CROSSWALK. AND I ZOOMED IN ON MY DEVICE. IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS RIGHT AFTER A RAIN EVENT, BUT STILL, THERE'S A GRADING ISSUE HAPPENING HERE, ESPECIALLY WHERE YOU CAN SEE CARS PULLING IN. SO A ROUTE LIKE THIS IS REALLY ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR ABILITY TO USE IT. SO IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT'S PAINTED OR NOT. SO CAN YOU KIND OF TALK ABOUT YOUR COLLABORATION WITH, SAY, MSD IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS PROBLEM IS ADDRESSED? AND HAS IT BEEN ADDRESSED SINCE THIS PICTURE HAS BEEN TAKEN? WELL, AS YOU POINTED OUT, IT'S OBVIOUSLY RECENTLY AFTER IT'S RAINED IN THIS PHOTO, WE CAN LOOK SPECIFICALLY AT WHAT MIGHT BE CAUSING THAT WITH MSD, WE ARE WORKING WITH GCPS. AGAIN, IT IS AN ONGOING ISSUE. AS YOU CAN SEE, WHEN PEOPLE PULL OFF INTO THE GRASS EVERY SINGLE DAY TO QUEUE AND THEN YOU DON'T HAVE THAT GRASS, SO YOU DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE THAT STANDING WATER. YOU KNOW, IF IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SHEDDING OFF INTO A GRASS AREA, YOU DON'T HAVE THAT ANYMORE. I DON'T SPECIFICALLY KNOW IF BECAUSE THIS LOOKS WE'LL LOOK AND SEE IF THERE IS A BASIN ISSUE HERE, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT MAY BE MORE OF. MAYBE A PAVEMENT DRAINAGE ISSUE
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AS FAR AS A SLOPE, BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY GET AN ANSWER ON THAT. SURE. AND I BELIEVE THIS IS IN DISTRICT TEN, AND IT'S CERTAINLY NOT IN DISTRICT 15. BUT I'M JUST WONDERING, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT UTILITY COORDINATION AND MSD IS A UTILITY. AND SO MAKING SURE THAT PROJECTS LIKE THIS HAVE KIND OF LIKE THAT HOLISTIC APPROACH IS, IS REALLY IMPORTANT. AND, YOU KNOW, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, I GUESS THIS FALLS UNDER THAT PURVIEW BECAUSE TRANSPORTATION IS ANY WAY YOU'RE GETTING AROUND. BUT YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF THESE PROJECTS ARE THESE UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, OR ARE THEY UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF PUBLIC WORKS? SO THE SO THE INTENT OF THE CREATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IS TO HOUSE THOSE TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVES. SO THE IDEA IS THAT ALL OF THE TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVES WOULD BE NOW UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. YES. IF THAT ANSWERS THE QUESTION. SO PUBLIC WORKS AT THIS POINT IS MADE UP OF SOLID WASTE AND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. GOTCHA. YOU KNOW, IN LOOKING AT IROQUOIS AND WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT HIGH DENSITY CORRIDORS AND VISION ZERO IS IN HERE. AND, CLAIRE, MAYBE YOU MIGHT BE BETTER TO ADDRESS THIS, BUT OF THE HIGH INJURY CORRIDORS, HOW MANY CAN YOU REMIND ME? HOW MANY OF THESE ARE STATE ROADS? 85%. AND SO A SCHOOL LIKE IROQUOIS. AND I KNOW THAT WE HAD JUST EXCHANGED SOME EMAILS WITH A CONSTITUENT WHO WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT ALL THE ACCIDENTS THAT KEEP HAPPENING RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET OR RIGHT BY IROQUOIS HIGH SCHOOL. TAYLOR IS A STATE STREET, AND SO CAN YOU KIND OF SPEAK TO THAT? AND THEN ALSO HOW, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF THESE TEN PROJECTS THAT YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU ALL HAVE IDENTIFIED? HOW MANY OF THOSE ARE ON STATE STREETS? AND, YOU KNOW, SHOULD THAT HAVE BEEN SOMETHING WHEN CONSIDERING THESE? AND LIKE, IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY GET DONE. WELL AND I'LL KICK US OFF. THERE ARE AND HERE'S, HERE'S THE LIST HERE OF SCHOOLS IMPACTED. I KNOW AS FAR AS BUTLER, THERE IS A SIDEWALK PROJECT PLANNED FOR CRUMS LANE. DOSS HAS A KYTC PROJECT. I'M NOT SURE ON THE TIMELINE, BUT WE CAN GET THAT INFORMATION AND I DON'T KNOW. I MEAN, I THINK JUST TO SAY THAT JUST BECAUSE IT'S ON A STATE ROAD, THAT'S NOT TO MEAN THAT ALL HOPE IS LOST FOR DOING SOME KIND OF SAFETY IMPROVEMENT. I THINK THERE ARE DEFINITELY OPPORTUNITIES, PARTICULARLY WHEN THEY FUNDED THIS PROJECT. THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM FRAMEWORK, KYTC FUNDED IT. SO.THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T EXCLUDE ANY STATE ROUTES FROM THE TEN SCHOOL ZONES. I MIGHT BE MISCOUNTING. I THINK THERE'S SIX HERE. MCFERRIN IS SEVENTH STREET. THAT'S METRO OWNED. BROWN SCHOOL IS FIRST STREET, THAT'S METRO OWNED LINCOLN MAIN STREET. JOHNSON IS WILSON AVENUE NEAR 26TH. SO YEAH, JUST A FEW ARE METRO OWNED, BUT BUT WE WOULD STILL HAVE OUR HANDS FULL WITH EVEN JUST A FEW. SO BECAUSE THE COUNTERPART TO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE PERCENTAGE OF STATE ROUTES THAT ARE ON THE HIGH ENERGY NETWORK BEING 85%, THAT COUNTERPART IS THAT METRO HAS 15%. AND KIND OF SWITCHING GEARS HERE AND GOING TO THE CROSSWALKS, I YOU KNOW, I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THESE LATTER CROSSWALKS. VERY, VERY EXCITED. BUT I WAS WONDERING IF YOU COULD KIND OF SPEAK TO, YOU KNOW, WITH OUR HIGH VISIBILITY OPTIONS, WHY WOULD WHY THE DECISION TO GO WITH LADDER VERSUS LONGITUDINAL BARS. AND I'M I GUESS I'M JUST WONDERING, BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE STUDIES THAT SAY THAT'S SAFER. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT HOW EXPENSIVE THE THERMOPLASTIC PAINT IS. AND NOW WE'RE PUTTING TWO ADDITIONAL LINES. SO IS THERE MUCH LIKE ARE THERE STUDIES THAT SHOW THAT THAT'S A SAFER OPTION? WELL, IN IN A LOT OF CASES YOU ALREADY HAVE THE TRANSVERSE LINES THAT ARE IN PLACE. SO IN SOME SITUATIONS IF YOU'RE GOING BACK WITH A LONGITUDINAL BARS YOU END UP WITH A LADDER ANYWAY. SO THAT THAT COULD BE SOME OF IT. BUT I CAN DEFINITELY CHECK IN WITH SIGNS AND MARKINGS TO SEE IF THERE WAS SOMETHING MORE SPECIFIC. BUT IF THOSE WEREN'T IN PLACE, COULD LONGITUDINAL BARS BE, YOU KNOW, AN OPTION, OR ARE WE JUST GOING FOR UNIFORMITY? SORRY, PARTLY WE'RE GOING FOR UNIFORMITY AS WELL. SO THIS IS THE LADDER STYLE CROSSWALK IS THE CROSSWALK THAT KYTC USES ON NEARLY ALL OF ITS UNCONTROLLED OR MID-BLOCK CROSSWALKS. SO THINK SCHOOLS BUT ALSO SOME PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS
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AS WELL THAT AREN'T IN SCHOOL ZONES. AND SO WE ARE GOING FOR UNIFORMITY OR SO THAT DRIVERS HAVE A CLEAR EXPECTATION OF WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO EXPECT AS THEY APPROACH THAT CROSSWALK, THEY'RE GOING TO GET THAT SHOULD GET THAT PEDESTRIAN OR SCHOOL ZONE AHEAD SIGNAGE. THEY SHOULD, PARTICULARLY ON ARTERIALS AND COLLECTORS. THEY SHOULD BE GETTING YIELD BAR, WHICH IS ALSO CALLED SHARK'S TEETH, AND A YIELD SIGN AS WELL, WHERE MOTORISTS SHOULD STOP THEIR CAR IF THEY SEE A PEDESTRIAN TRYING TO CROSS THE STREET. AND THEN YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE ANY OTHER COUNTERMEASURES THAT WOULD BE APPLICABLE FOR THAT ROADWAY. SO IF IT'S A HIGH SPEED, HIGH VOLUME ROADWAY, THAT MIGHT BE THOSE RECTANGULAR RAPID FLASHING BEACONS OR THINGS LIKE THAT, KIND OF DEPENDING ON THE CONTEXT OF THE ROADWAY. AND JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON WHERE I WAS IN THE LAST QUESTION, WHERE CAN WE SEE ALL OF THOSE TEN PLANS? ARE THOSE ONLINE YET? YES, YOU'VE DEVELOPED RECOMMENDATIONS AND THOSE ARE ALL ONLINE. YES. YEAH. AND I'M ACTIVELY WORKING TO FIX THE LINK ISSUE WITH THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL WEBSITE. THANK YOU. YEAH, I NEED TO BUY A PREMIUM PLAN APPARENTLY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANKS. ANY ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR? WE STAND ADJOURNED. THANK YOU.* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.