Safe Routes Marinwood

Vision

To safely increase pedestrian and bicycle use in the Marinwood/Lucas Valley area.

Mission

The Safe Routes to Schools project will attempt to achieve the following goals:

• Safer streets for walking and biking, intergrating the use of international best practices.
• Control commuter traffic volume.
• Slow down existing traffic.
• Make Marinwood more attractive and a model of non-motorized best practices for other communities to follow.

Proposal

Marin County has been selected as one of four communities nationally that has been selected by Congress to participate in a Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program. The focus of this pilot program is to affect a "Modal Shift" from vehicle use to human powered alternatives. The Safe Routes Committee of the Marinwood Association has created a vision plan for our community in the attempt to attract funding from this pilot along with other County programs such Safe Pathways, Safe Routes to School, and the Marin Bike & Pedestrian County Wide Plan update currently underway. For more information on the non-motorzied pilot program and it's progress check out the County site walkbikemarin.org

In the attached survey we list several projects that we feel are important to our goals. Please fill out this short survey so we can better understand YOUR pedestrian and biking use, concerns and priorities in the Marinwood/Lucas Valley area. We appreciate your participation!!

Current Successes

• Class II bikepath on Las Gallinas.
• Class II bikepath on Lucas Valley Road.
• Cross-over guard on Las Gallinas and Miller Creek.
• $80,000 for a non-motorized study for Las Gallinas through the Marin None-motorized pilot project.
• $250,000 for improvment of the Blackstone Las Gallinas intersection through Safe Paths To school.
• Inclusion of some of our Traffic Vision Plan concepts in the Draft Marin County Unincorporated Area Bike & Pedestrian Master Plan. But not all concepts were incorporated. Read our reply (Reply to draft master plan.pdf).

Current Projects

• Marinwood/ Lucas valley Community Traffic Vision Plan
• Mary E Silvera
  1. WalkAbout results (SrtS)
  2. Walk To School Fridays (SrtS)
  3. Crossing Guard now at the intersection of Las Gallinas Ave. & Miller Creek Rd. (SrtS)
  4. Walk-a-thon^? (SrtS)
• Dixie School
  1. Crossing Guard now at the intersection of Mt. Shasta Dr. & Iydlberry Rd. (SrtS)
  2. Walk To School Fridays start again in the spring (SrtS)
• Miller Creek Middle School
  1. Results Miller Creek Middle School Survey (SrtS)
  2. [Miller Creek SR2S^? student committe]?
• 101 and Lucas Valley interchange
• YMCA
• Marinwood Village Project (shopping center/residential) proposal incorporates a pedestrian/biking

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Administrative

Next meeting of the Safe Routes Committee- TBA

Love to ride or walk in beautiful Marinwood/Lucas Valley? Are unsafe conditions for you & your family a concern? Maybe you would like to get involved? Contact our Co-chairs Kel Harris 415-845-7664 ceccantiharris@comcast.net or Ward Bouwman 415-507-1600 WardBouwman2

-- WardBouwman2 - 17 Jan 2008