Petition to the Transportation Authority of Marin (TAM):


We the undersigned urge the Transportation Authority of Marin to prioritize safety for cyclists and pedestrians and include a replacement overcrossing as part of the design, final environmental document, funding and construction plan for the $142 million Greenbrae/Twin Cities Corridor Improvement Project for the following reasons:

Safety

  • Marin must continue to build transportation infrastructure that accommodates people of all ages and abilities. Requiring young children, the disabled and the elderly to cross multiple surface streets as well as freeway onramps and offramps in order to get across Highway 101 is unacceptably unsafe.

  • This project must encourage nonmotorized travel by building a separated-from-cars overcrossing.  The new planned facilities on Wornum Drive will discourage nonmotorized travel in the area.

Environment and Equity

  • Over 62% of greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation in Marin. Facilities that encourage nonmotorized transportation are a key part of the GHG solution.

  • Only a safe and separate facility will provide equitable safe transportation routes for the disabled, poor and the elderly who cannot afford or are not able to drive.

Existing Plans/Policies

  • Marin County's Countywide plan has a stated goal of 20% walking and bicycling by the year 2020. Failure to replace this overcrossing is inconsistent with that goal.

  • The Corte Madera General Plan has a policy to prioritize options for improving bicycle and pedestrian access across Highway 101- this project fails regarding this policy.

  • The Larkspur General Plan includes policies prohibiting thoroughfares that divide the city and requires design circulation facilities that minimize disruption of neighborhoods and communities. It includes a goal to encourage attractive alternatives to the use of single-occupant automobiles- this project fails regarding these policies.

Encouragement, Health, Active Lifestyle/Active Transportation

  • Marin has seen a weekday increase of 172% of cycling since 1999- and walking increased 39% on weekends and 35% on weekdays between 2007 and 2011. This trend will only continue with the replacement of safe and separated bike/ped facilities. 

  • Marin has the oldest population in the Bay Area; having safe and separate bike/ped facilities are critical for the elderly to maintain independence. 

  • It is vital that we work to reverse the obesity epidemic that has swept the nation; the built environment is a key part of the solution.

children_crossing_streetConnectivity and the Future

  • Replacing the overcrossing would connect Corte Madera and west Larkspur residents to the ferry and SMART train at Marin's most important transportation hub at Larkspur Landing.

  • The overcrossing is a vital safe connector in Marin's bike/ped North-South Greenway.

  • A new overcrossing is a 50-100 year investment for existing and future generations- we need to be thinking about our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren and beyond.
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2. Would removal of the existing pedestrian overcrossing near Lucky Drive impact you or someone you know? If yes, how?
3. Would construction of a new, safe-and-separated overcrossing in the same vicinity, that's easily accessible by both cyclists and pedestrians, benefit you or someone you know? If yes, how?
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