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Livermore, Kathleen <br />From: Cathleen Sullivan [cathleengreen@yahoo.com] <br />Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:56 PM <br />To: Livermore, Kathleen <br />Subject: POSSIBLE SPAM BRT, Yes! <br />Importance: Low <br />Planning Commissioner <br />Please support the continued efforts of planning staff to find a viable "Locally Preferred <br />Alternative" (or "LPA") for BRT as soon as possible. <br />To really address any anticipated impacts, we need to understand how the project would be <br />implemented in detail, on a block by block level. Developing an LPA would be the next <br />necessary step to help us all better understand what specific issues need to be addressed <br />before going forward with BRT, or not. We also need an LPA in place so that, if the city <br />approves of BRT in the future, funding can be sought out and directed toward the project. <br />As part of a BRT system, dedicated lanes might be able help to keep transit vehicles out of <br />traffic, making transit service fast, frequent, and reliable. BRT stations may be able to <br />create safer, more comfortable places to wait for transit, and proof-of-payment systems, and <br />level, all-door boarding could all work together to make existing transit -and a future BRT <br />system- a viable alternative to driving. However, BRT may also create too much congestion on <br />the corridor, cause "cut-through" traffic into neighborhoods that parallel the route, or may <br />displace parking that may be critical to future. The only way to know for sure is to do a <br />closer study through developing and studying a full-build LPA. <br />Again, please do everything you can to help develop an LPA so that we can more thoroughly <br />study how BRT might look in the Bay Area, if we choose to implement it. <br />Thank you for your time. <br />Cathleen Sullivan <br />482 44th Street <br />Oakland, CA 94609 <br />