Marinwood/ Lucas Valley Community Traffic Vision Plan

Executive Summary Executive Summary

Overview The Marinwood/Lucas Valley Community Traffic Vision Plan (Plan) presents the community's vision for a safe and enjoyable way for community members to ride bikes and walk to schools, work, and recreation in the Marinwood/Lucas Valley sphere of influence. This Plan will increase the overall health of our community, decrease our ecological footprint, and enable us to better respond in catastrophic emergencies by enabling different modes of access. It will allow our children to walk and bike safely to school and enable young and old to access recreational facilities, workplaces, and shopping by walking and by bike.

Goals for the Community

This Plan covers the following goals for our community:

• Create safer streets for walking and biking.
• Control traffic volume.
• Slow down existing traffic.
• Make the Marinwood community attractive and a model for non-motorized best practices.
• Enable alternative access in case of catastrophic emergencies.

In order to accomplish these goals, this Plan focuses on north-south and east-west access routes, and on reducing the impact of Highway 101 as a barrier between residences and destinations on the east side of the highway. The Plan suggests several projects to help our community reach its goals. Ultimately, we hope that elected representatives and county planners will see what a central role Marinwood can play as both a hub for non-motorized transportation, and as a model for other Marin County communities. We hope that our county representatives will champion this Plan and carry it though the multitude of county and state agencies to make it a reality.

Read the full Plan here (pdf) or just the survey results.

This plan has been adopted by:

• Marinwood Association
• Dixie School District
• Marinwood CSD

-- WardBouwman2 - 09 Mar 2007

Comments on the plan

If you feel that we missed an issue situation that should be included in the plan, please create a page here with your comments.

• Striping on Miller creek from Las Gallinas to Lucas Valley
• Vision pictures for Las Gallinas

Research

Cost of bike paths Definition of Fietspad (dutch)

3-Dimensional Road Marking

Great extensive study about Policy Innovations in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany. (pdf)

Pictures of:

• Separated bike-paths from parked cars.
• Drive-over traffic separator (Punaise)
• Inviting underpass of highways including cars, bikes and pedestrians.
• Bike Tunnel

Comments on the Non-motorized pilot plan

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-- WardBouwman2 - 13 Feb 2008