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to maintain the lighting, landscaping, and pedestrian and bicycle safety. To
achieve those priorities, he looked at repurposing the lanes. As Mr. Trebilcock
noted that as new developments are planned for the corridor, they are required
to install a left turn lane into the new development which would end up
reducing the amount of existing medians and landscaping. Mr. Trebilcock met
with County staff to review the current and future roadway designs. Bayshore
Drive is classified as a Collector Road; currently the road doesn't meet the
County standards with the lane widths. The County transportation staff
recommends at least 11ft wide lanes and would prefer 12 ft. Instead, his
concept is to reduce the lanes to one in each direction and install roundabouts
at key intersections. These improvements will slow down traffic, widen the
sidewalks and bike lanes meeting the priorities of the community. Mr.
Trebilcock provided another option that displays turn lanes, keeping all 4 lanes
all the way down to Thomasson Drive which would create a more of a
thoroughfare for vehicles to be able to travel at a higher rate of speed with no
traffic calming measures. Installing roundabouts in different locations on
Bayshore would allow the medians with landscaping, wider sidewalks for
pedestrian and bicycle safety• and install traffic calming measures to slow
traffic. This will also accommodate new and existing businesses with the
required entrance and exits onto the road. Mike Sherman noted this was a
complex issue, the traffic experts say it feasible. It is a great vision and if it
isn't implemented now it won't happen; he also commented on the difficulty
with all the left-turn lanes from the side streets. The option with
roundabouts would increase the safety of pedestrian and bicycle and supports
slowing down the traffic because the traffic now is speeding and when
there are new businesses it would be even worse. Camille Kielty asked if
6 roundabouts would eliminate left hand turns for example, Shoreview Drive
will have a right turn only to get into the roundabout to make a u-turn instead.
Mr. Trebilcock replied yes, most of the side streets would have the right turn
out of the street and use the roundabout to turn themselves out the
opposite direction. Ms. Kielty asked how much would this cost and how
long would this take? Mr. Trebilcock no costs or timeframes developed yet,
the first step is to get Board feedback and support to move to the next phase.
Steve Main expressed his concerns about going down to 2 lanes and said he
would not support a 2-lane road. He wants to leave the bike lanes and says
the area needs the bike lanes. He had a lot of concerns about this concept and
would need additional time to review the options. Al Schantzen mentioned
Mr. Mcgee study of installing a roundabout on the north end by Gulf Gate
Plaza and would not oppose trying it on the north end as a test to try out.
Maurice Gutierrez mentioned the similarity of Pelican Bay with Bayshore
area and asked if the number of occupants is taken into consideration on
determining how many vehicles will be impacting these changes. Mr.
Trebilcock does take into account all those factors along with human
behavior to the best of their ability, even as tricky as it is it is all taken into
account for the road improvements. Ms. Kielty asked if they had a 3rd option
to look at to be able to slow down the traffic keep the 4
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