PALMDALE – The city of Palmdale is inviting the public to participate in an interactive online presentation for the Avenue Q Complete Streets project on Wednesday, Aug. 25, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The Avenue Q Complete Streets project is analyzing the potential for a multi-modal roadway to enhance comfort and safety along Avenue Q, between Sierra Highway and 20th Street East.
To register for the presentation, visit the project website at www.AvenueQCorridor.com, or go to www.zoom.us Webinar ID: 936 9995 0208 Passcode: 5851 on the day of the event.
Live presentation audio will be available for listening only by dialing 1-213-338-8477, Webinar ID: 936 9995 0208, Passcode 5851. Comments and questions can be submitted via text message for those who participate by phone by texting 1-661-434-0213 during the meeting. Simultaneous translation of the meeting will be provided in Spanish. Requests for ASL and other languages will be accommodated if made at least three working days (72 hours) in advance of the scheduled meeting date.
“The project team has reviewed and incorporated public input gathered during the first round of engagement, which was conducted during the spring of 2021,” said Palmdale Mayor Steve Hofbauer. “We invite you to participate in the second and final workshop to preview and confirm recommendations on the draft concepts.”
“At this meeting we will share the results of the public engagement activities, including identified community priorities and desired improvements, present concept recommendations and gather final input from the community,” said Mayor Pro Tem Laura Bettencourt.
“We will also share the next steps of the project as we move toward the Draft Final Report,” said Palmdale City Manager J.J. Murphy. “Your feedback and thoughts are important to the future of this corridor, so please get involved by participating in the workshop.”
The Avenue Q Corridor study is funded from a $250,000 grant provided through Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). The funding is provided through SCAG’s Sustainable Communities Program for Regional Corridors. City staff will work with consultants from Toole Design to gather input from the community to draft the plan, which is anticipated to be completed in early 2022.
For more information, contact Megan Taggart at 661-267-5213 or email mtaggart@cityofpalmdale.org.
[Information via news release from the city of Palmdale.]
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Tim Scott says
My email to the coordinator, which will likely not be addressed at this meeting:
I just want to send this email so there is a record when people start saying “who would ever have anticipated…”
Because you should anticipate complaints when cars start bouncing into the neighborhood, and citizens are calling Uber to come get them at their car with the suspension torn out from under it.
This project is going to make part of Ave Q a wider, smoother, better open road. That’s great. But people are not going to have an alarm go off in their head telling them “oh that was the end of the complete street.” This is going to increase speeds all along Ave Q, especially just a mile past the end of your project where people will encounter the truly horrific drainage dips at 30th and 31st streets.
You are free to go out and look at the damaged pavement and try to guess how many cars bottoming out it took to do that damage. Then consider the damage done to the cars. That’s at the current speeds. How many drivers lost control of their damaged cars? I don’t know, but higher speeds will mean more. How many of those damaged cars were damaged badly enough to be rendered inoperative? I don’t know, but higher speeds will mean more.
Increasing speeds on Avenue Q without addressing those dips is recklessly irresponsible.
Calling a project that ends at 20th Street East “complete” is grossly misleading. I would be interested to see the data, but I would bet that 80-90% of the traffic currently using Ave Q between Sierra Highway and 20th East continues to 30th St East, at least. Avenue Q is used by residents of the east side to avoid Palmdale Boulevard, but the east side doesn’t end at 20th, in fact it barely starts there. To even consider Ave Q as a “complete” street you need to be looking at it all the way to 40th Street East, and 40th from Q to Palmdale Boulevard as well.