I spoke with Deb Gross (thanks very much for your time, Deb) and then tried to follow up with DOMI (Department of Mobility and Infrastructure) re my concerns about the N. Euclid neighborway. DOMI is out of their office (understandable) and their mailbox was full (very unhelpful) so I am putting my concerns out here: 1. I am concerned that residents/homeowners on N. Euclid (I am one) were not asked for our thoughts prior to the city making these neighborway plans for N. Euclid. I only learned of these plans as a result of the HPCC meeting, and the neighborway plans appeared already set at that time. 2. The N. Euclid neighborway plans are likely to change the character of the street. A lot of us who live on N. Euclid have put and continue to put a lot of time and money into making our homes and yards into well-kept, lovely, somewhat serene places. The changes that are being planned will make N. Euclid a much more trafficked street than it currently is. The traffic will be of a different sort, i.e., bikes and pedestrians, but it will likely be very increased traffic of bikes and pedestrians. A significant increase in traffic changes the nature of the living experience. There will likely be more noise and activity in general. If I had wanted to live on a trafficked street, I would have bought a house on Highland or Negley. 3A. I believe in the health and climate-change positive effects of bike riding. However, bicyclists and pedestrians don’t always co-exist well. Bicycles can be dangerous, in some ways more dangerous than cars because you often can't hear a bicycle when it comes near you. That means you may not even be aware that a bicycle is approaching when you start to cross a street so it would be much easier for a bike to hit you. 3B. Unfortunately many bike riders either don’t know or don’t care about the rules of safe road sharing. Tuesday when I went out to grocery shop, I was driving my car and waiting for the light to change at East Liberty Blvd when a bicyclist approached the intersection as the light changed. He was in the wrong lane on the Blvd (which is a divided street) and going in the wrong direction. The light had fully changed, but he continued going straight across the intersection. If I were not a watchful driver and if I had started up immediately when my light turned green, there would likely have been a fatal accident. While many bikers are great about biking carefully and lawfully, I have seen many who are not. I am extra careful when I drive by someone on a bicycle because I am never sure what a bicyclist is going to do. 4. The renderings for the traffic circles planned for N. Euciid show trees in the circles, making them look attractive. However, the early HPCC information about the city’s plans said that this neighborway was being tried out, implying that it could be changed back if it didn’t work out. Now you can’t readily change back a treed traffic circle (and I am VERY against cutting down any trees given how helpful they are in fighting climate change) so I didn’t really understand how they could say this was simply a trial. I would like to know if it would really be possible to change this project back if a lot of us think it isn’t working well. 5. I don’t think it makes sense to start or do a non-essential project like this neighborway during the extremely challenging times in which we are currently living. I had written up some of these concerns in the early DOMI project survey soon after I learned about the city’s plans, although I will probably do the survey again since it appears a bit different. In the meantime, if someone knows how to be sure those at DOMI get to read this e-mail, please feel free to forward it directly. Thank you. Yours for health and a lovely neighborhood, janet jai, MLA www.vision-and-values.com <http://www.vision-and-values.com/>