Agenda • Project overview • Community engagement • Recommendations • Requested Action: Vote to accept the plan and send to the Village Board for adoption
What is a Bike and Active Transportation Plan? • Sets community vision and goals • Menu of infrastructure recommendations • Initiative recommendations • Prioritization What a Bike and Active Transportation Plan is Not… • Permanent or final • Engineering level decisions
Walking and Biking Matters • Safety • Cost effective • Economic development • Equity • Transportation • Connectivity • Social • Environmental
Why a Pedestrian and Bike Plan? • Update using modern best practices Why a plan • Changes to mobility update? • Develop an actionable roadmap • Identify opportunities for outside funding
Plan Contents • Plan Purpose/Background • Initiatives • Safety • Community Engagement • Education/Encouragement Overview • Awareness • Goals • Convenience • Results • Community • Vision Statement • Implementation • Network Recommendations • Project prioritization and phasing • Design • Funding resources • Criteria • Planning-level cost estimates • Bike/Pedestrian • Appendix • Wayfinding Signage • Impact Matrix • Intersection Improvements • Detailed prioritization scores • Typologies and target locations • Bike Parking guidance
Process and Schedule
Public Engagement Overview
How We Reached People In-Person • Tabling at Summer Fest • September 2018 Open House #1 • February 2019 Open House #2 • 5 Focus Groups • Hosted office hours Online • Project website • Online comment form • Online map • Village newsletters • Email distribution list In Writing • Signage posted around Village • Mailer Reviewed Surveys
Plan Participants in Wilmette • 369 people submitted comments or attended Plan Participants’ Relationship to Wilmette an event 4%4% 5% • 91% of plan participants live in the Village. • 111 individuals put 465 points on the map • Over 3,300 unique visitors to the project website since June 2018 91% Live in Wilmette Work in Wilmette Live Elsewhere Did Not Disclose
What People Told Us: Phase 1 Accessible and Multi-Modal Context Sensitive Safe People-Focused Connected • Convenience for • Preserve amenities • Safer and more • Transit-oriented- • A need for north that define Wilmette comfortable development and south all users (tree-lined, brick sidewalks, communities, walking/biking • A sense that all streets) crosswalks, and prioritizing connections users (those streets accessibility for all • Limit impacts on • A need for east and walking, biking, ages and abilities property owners • Safer traffic, west walking/biking and driving) are (ages 8 – 80) including calmer connections • Avoid negative expected and roads and reduced • Ability for “aging in impacts on traffic • Solutions to barriers speeds place” in Wilmette welcomed on volumes and gaps in the walking/biking Wilmette roads • Preserve parking network • More bike infrastructure, including safer routes and bike parking • More pedestrian infrastructure, including pedestrian spaces and seating
What People Told Us: Phase 1
Data and Plan Review • Data sets • Crashes • Planned and existing bikeways • Roadway characteristics • Other plans • Previous bike plan • Village corridor studies • Village engineering studies • Neighboring municipalities • Regional plans • Village policies • On bike field work
Phase 1 Recommendations
Considering Impacts and Tradeoffs Construction and Safety and crash Vehicular speed Traffic Parking maintenance history reduction costs Pedestrian, East/west bicycle, vehicular Crossing distance Land acquisition Jurisdiction connectivity mobility Access to schools Effect on Trees and street Community and other Utilities residents and furniture support destinations businesses
What People Told Us: Phase 2 Common corridors and areas mentioned: Common themes: • Lake Ave • Support for Edens Overpass improvements • Wilmette Ave • Illinois Rd • Concerns about: • Loss of resident landscaping, privacy, cost, and need • Greenleaf Ave • Loss of vehicular travel lanes • Skokie Valley Trail • Loss of parking • Lack of sidewalks • Isabella St • Traffic impacts • Downtown Wilmette • Expenditures required to fund plan • Ridge Rd • Desire: • Gillson Park • To remove parking to stripe bike lanes • Skokie Valley Trail • For additional studies to be conducted prior to action. • For more bike facilities • For better connectivity to key destinations (such as library) • Differing opinions on traffic calming, especially curb extensions • Requests for a bike share system
Phase 2 Revisions
Phase 2 Revisions • Ridge Rd advisory bike lane now concludes at Elmwood Ave to • A trail connection to the future Skokie Valley Trail was added to the north (previously concluded at Thornwood Ave). Wilmette Ave in Glenview. • Bike boulevard added to Elmwood Ave between Ridge Rd and • Lake Ave between Green Bay Trail and Wilmette Ave is now Hunter Rd (previously this bike boulevard was suggested on listed as multiple options : a road diet with either bike lanes or Thornwood Ave). advisory bike lanes will be considered, contingent upon a future study. Advisory bike lanes would not necessitate the removal of • Hunter Rd bike boulevard extended between Thornwood Ave parking. and Elmwood Ave. • Lake Ave between Wilmette Ave and Michigan Ave is now listed • Illinois Rd between Happ Rd and Skokie Rd/Edens is now listed as multiple options : bike boulevard and marked shared lanes as multiple options (previously listed as just bike boulevard). will be considered, contingent upon a future study. • Illinois Rd between Skokie Rd and Thornwood Ave now listed as Wilmette Ave between Ridge Rd and 10 th St is now listed as a • multiple options (previously listed as just sidepath). signed bike route . Note: Wilmette Ave is already an existing signed bike route between Ridge Rd and Green Bay Rd. • The sidepath on Lake Ave between North Branch Trail and future Skokie Valley Trail was removed based on further analysis of tree • Illinois Rd between Thornwood Ave and Wilmette Ave is now and vegetation screening impacts. listed as a signed bike route . • A sidepath was added to Frontage Rd between Old Glenview Rd 10 th St between Sheridan Rd and Elmwood Ave is now listed as a • and the southern Village border. signed bike route . • A trail connection to the future Skokie Valley Trail was added at Illinois Rd .
Network Recommendations: Level of Comfort
Network Recommendations: Facility Types
Facility Types Types • Sidepath • Trail • Bike Lanes • Bike Routes • Marked Shared Lanes • Bike Boulevard • Advisory Bike Lanes • Pedestrian Tunnel • Road Diet
Sidepath Cross Sections on Skokie Boulevard (from Hibbard Rd to Lake Ave) Existing Proposed Page 45 In Wilmette Master Bike and Active Minneapolis, MN Alexandria, VA Source: Parkways to Greenways Transportation Plan Sidepath Example Skokie Sidepath Design Concept
Marked Shared Lane Marked Shared Lanes Design Concept Greenleaf Ave Before After Page 38 In Wilmette Master Bike and Active Source: NACTO Transportation Plan Marked Shared Lane Examples
Bike Boulevard Cross Sections on Wilmette Avenue (from Laramie Avenue to Glenview Road) Existing Proposed Page 34 In Wilmette Master Bike and Active Source: NACTO Transportation Plan Bike Boulevard Example Bike Boulevard Design Concept
Advisory Bike Lane Cross Sections on Ridge Road (from Wilmette Ave to Lake St) Existing Proposed Page 42 In Wilmette Master Bike and Minneapolis, MN Alexandria, VA Active Transportation Plan Advisory Bike Lane Examples
Road Diet (with Bike Lanes) Road Diet with Bike Lanes Examples Page 50 Source: FHWA Source: Los Angeles Walks In Wilmette Master Bike and Active Transportation Plan
Multiple Options: Feasibility Study Needed Cross Sections on Glenview Road (from Laramie Ave to Wilmette Ave) Existing Proposed Bike Lane Option Proposed Sidepath Option Page 50 In Wilmette Master Bike and Active Transportation Plan
Wayfinding Prairie bike boulevard turning onto McKenzie Elementary School bike path Prairie Ave to Central Ave bike boulevard transition Page 66 In Wilmette Master Bike and Active Transportation Plan
Intersection Typologies • Major signalized • One or two-way stop controlled • Uncontrolled • Offset • Complex Page 71 In Wilmette Master Bike and Active Transportation Plan
Major Signalized Page 75 Intersection Typology Diagram Lake Ave & Green Bay Rd In Wilmette Master Bike and Laramie Ave & Lake Ave Major Signalized Intersection Examples Active Transportation Plan
Two-way Stop Controlled Wilmette Ave & 15 th St Page 76 Intersection Typology Diagram In Wilmette Master Bike and Example Intersection Two ‐ way Stop Controlled Intersection Example Active Transportation Plan
One-Way Stop Controlled Thornwood Ave & Ridge Rd Page 77 Intersection Typology Diagram In Wilmette Master Bike and Thornwood Ave & Ridge Rd One ‐ way Stop Controlled Intersection Example Active Transportation Plan
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