ff r- -10 <br />TAYLOR Bec!cy G <br />From: Sandy Thorns <sandythorns@rnsn.corn> <br />Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:35 PM <br />To: TAYLOR Becky G . <br />Subject: Road Safety <br />Please forward to the Hearings Official. <br />Thank you, <br />Sandy Thorns <br />Dear Hearings Official, <br />Within the past 3 weeks, I have had 2 friends get into SERIOUS bike accidents causing traumatic brain <br />injuries. A child in our neighborhood recently crashed on her bike resulting in a trip to the doctorforx- <br />rays. An adult male bicyclist was killed on Howard Avenue recently in a collision with a car. A 12 year old boy <br />was involved in a serious bike accident with a car at a street crossing with blinking yellow lights! <br />I URGE you to please, take the safety of Oakleigh Lane seriously and look very closely at all of the evidence and <br />data that has been presented to you by the Oakleigh Lane residents and Paul Conte, regarding the improper <br />classification of our road by the City and also Access Engineering, and the complete disregard for the safety of <br />it's residents and FUTURE residents. <br />For Access Engineering to say there is ,no increased risk by adding 47 cars, 168 additional trips to our street is <br />simply ignoring statistics! The addition of just one car will increase risk. The addition of 28 more families <br />riding bikes on o.ur street will increase risk! For Access Engineering to say there will be no increased risk is just <br />flagrant misrepresentation and downplaying reality! <br />Access Engineering may say that the additional risk is within an acceptable threshold in their minds, but to say <br />there is no additional risk is completely inaccurate. Increasing traffic by over %100 on a very narrow <br />unimproved access lane is going to add risk, no matter how you want to twist the numbers in your- <br />favor! Oakleigh Meadow Cohousing should be concerned about their own residents too! <br />Sandy Thorns <br />135 Oakleigh Lane <br />18 year resident <br />620 <br />