There's a lot of info on potential stimulus funding for Washtenaw County from the Washtenaw Area Transportation Study (WATS).
The high level breakdown is:
AATA bus service: $6.5 million
Urban: $8.3 million
Rural: $900k
Highways: $50.3 million
Of this, I think you could count the AATA bus service money and some fraction of the Urban stimulus money as contributing to sustainable transportation (e.g. new buses, new bus stations, and a fraction of road rebuilding that's likely to create bike lanes as well).
While it's a small amount, I'm particular curious about an item under Urban stimulus that calls out $250k for "Non-motorized system improve/expand -A2".
Probably the most important point is the following: "Comment period closes April 24, 2009. Comments may be made in person in the WATS office or by email to bomberye@miwats.org."
It's not really clear to me what the context the comments are being solicited for. Is the allocation of projects still open for discussion? Could we spend less on the highway resurfacing and fix the Stadium bridges? Could we spend less on the highway resurfacing and more on bike lanes?
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Bicyling in Ann Arbor UPDATED!
The Bicyling in Ann Arbor page has been updated.
Updates include:
1) They now explicitly identify "pothole to be repaired" as the place to put bike lane requests.
2) Still no online bike registration form on the linked-to City Clerk's website.
3) They've included the number of bike lanes added each year, starting in 2007. This is great. Unfortunately, 2008 added a total of 0.2 miles of bike lanes (along Ann Street). Nontheless, increased transparency might eventually lead to more action in this space.
4) The page promises 2009 bike line additions "coming soon". If they only do them when reconstructing streets, then my guess is that 2009 will only see a few hundred feet when they reconstruct the Stadium / Pauline intersection. If the DDA redoes Division in 2009, then that might be a lot more. I heard rumors of stimulus funding, so perhaps more will happen.
Updates include:
1) They now explicitly identify "pothole to be repaired" as the place to put bike lane requests.
2) Still no online bike registration form on the linked-to City Clerk's website.
3) They've included the number of bike lanes added each year, starting in 2007. This is great. Unfortunately, 2008 added a total of 0.2 miles of bike lanes (along Ann Street). Nontheless, increased transparency might eventually lead to more action in this space.
4) The page promises 2009 bike line additions "coming soon". If they only do them when reconstructing streets, then my guess is that 2009 will only see a few hundred feet when they reconstruct the Stadium / Pauline intersection. If the DDA redoes Division in 2009, then that might be a lot more. I heard rumors of stimulus funding, so perhaps more will happen.
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