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HomeMy WebLinkAboutComments on Neighborhood Conectivity NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIVITY SURVEY COMMENTS SUMMARY General • Glad to participate. • I am most interested in this project, even though I currently live in Bryan. My house is on the market and I have plans on moving to College Station Thank you • I appreciate the opportunity to provide feedback. • I would like to see more surveys like this in the future, on a variety of issues for our community. • please do not spend more money on spurrious issues • Please forward a copy of this information to the City of Bryan. Thank you! • Thank you • Thank you for conducting this survey. • Thank you for making an effort to find out what residents want. • Thank you for taking the time to put this questionare together. It is so much easier for working moms like myself to answer online as we have the time. • Thanks for asking. • Thanks for taking time to ask the citizens for our view. Keep up the good work !!! • Thanks for the chance to give my opinion. • thanks for the survey. • Thanks you for sending this and would you please share results with the City of Bryan. • Update on sidewalks and biking trails • Who is doing this survey? • You are doing a fine job. Keep up the good work. Wouldn't want us to get in the shape Houston is in. Bike / Pedestrian Facilities • As a homeowner, I prefer sidewalks at the curb, minimizing maintenance issues, primarily edging, for self or city. Homeowner seem confused about their responsibility to contain their grass off of the sidewalks. As a parent of a young child, when walking on those sidewalks, I prefer some space between us and the traveling cars. Perhaps sidewalks could have a bigger curb bunp so that a vehicle would have a harder time `jumping* the curb. Definitely prefer sidewalks on both sides to take advantage of shade depending on time of day, how heavy the traffic is in any one direction, etc. Maintenance of existing sidewalks is an issue. Homeowners need to be clear about what their duities are or the city needs to be more aggressing in edging sidewalks. Current conditions restrict accessibility. We love sidewalks and wish there were more on residential streets. Walking with the stroller or wagon on our own street is scary and dangerous! • As an agent is amazing to watch the incredulant looks on relocating clients faces when they realize we have hardly any sidewalks and bike paths. It is expected in a university town. • I couldn't enter underscore character in my e -mail address, in the textarea number 24 according to JAVA script. 2. Please consider sidewalk, bicycle trail along Dowling and from junction of Dowling and FM2818 to TAMU • Sidewalks relate directly to walking, but only secondarily to biking. A perfectly acceptable sidewalk may be less than satisfactory for bicycle commuting. There are no questions on the questionaire concerning bike lanes, which are the preference of a commuter. 2. For some reason, it is impossible to answer both of questions 20 and 22: answering one erases the answer to the other. • Bike trails are find, but bike lanes remove street parking which is a major inconvenience for residents and visitors. A sidewalk to bike on is much more preferable that a bike lane. Bikers are safer, people can still park and there is no bus /bike conflict. Closing streets and using traffic calming devices is a waste of tax money and reduces efficency of the road system. If road humps are used because it is so dangerous please include a sign a Sound horn at all hours when passing to increase safety. If itec#39 • College Station is in desperate need of sidewalks. I'd like to see them on both sides of Barron, as well as along the feeder road between Barron and Rock Prairie. Please put a sidewalk and /or a bike lane or shoulder on Welborn, near George Bush. I've seen many people jogging on the road and fear for their safety. Please also connect the sidewalks along University Drive (going towards Highway 6). Students like to walk that direction (especially the ones without cars) but the sidewalk doesn't extend continuously. The sidewalks along Texas Ave around Harvey Road have the same problem. Most people get hung up on the guard rail at that intersection. • College Station is not setup for cross town bike or walking trips. Most major streets don't have cross walks or sidewalks, and bike lines turn into car turning lanes at intersections. If I'm ridng in the bike lane and all of the sudden my line turns into a right hand turn lane for auto traffic what I'm i supposed to do. My only option it to stop, hop the curb and walk my bike. teh bike lanes in town are useless as they exist now. I have lived in towns where there was significant bike traffic. these places have solved this problem. We need to look around and see what they are doing. I would be afraid to ride a bicycle beyond my residential neighborhood. I don't want to get run over by a sority girl in her new Expedition, because she was talking on her cell phone and didn't see riding my bike on shoulder or in the gutter. • College Station needs places that people can cycle without being threatened. A commitment to real bicycle lanes throughout our community will pay long term dividends that will far out weigh the initial cost. THINK BIG. • Every street should be equipped with at least one sidewalk, if not two (each side). Often, my family and I walk to the local park and we have to jump up on the curb to avoid oncoming traffic. Also, something needs to be done about parking on residential streets that are not wide enough to accomodate parking on both sides. Often times if vehicles are parked on both sides, a large emergency vehicle could not come through. • Good job. Need to get a biking corridor parallel to Hwy 6 to service citizens of Nantucket and Pebble Creek areas, preferrably along a parkway. Nothing's too good for the taxpayers. • Grass between sidewalk and curb requires more maintenance and is frequently ignored, i.e. watering and edging. Thus becomming an eyesore from neglect. Why not just place sidewalk adjacent to curb? It costs less to install and maintain and makes sense. • I am not indifferent to side walks, only to whether they are on both sides of the street in some instances. If not on both sides, there has to be safe crosswalks to get to the other side. • I bike to work every day and would like to walk more. Bicycling and walking facilities are safe and important. • I feel that placing greater emphasis on pedestrian and bicycle traffic should be a priority for College Station. • I live in Wood Creek. There is no safe way to get from my subdivision across the freeway by foot or bike. There needs to be a sidewalk across the Rock Prairie overpass. Additionally, the intersection of Rock Prairie and Longmire has terrible flow. From 5:15PM -6PM every weekday, cars routinely block the intersection making it impossible to make a left turn from Longmire onto Rock Prairie towards HWY 6. A police presence during this time would deter intersection blockers from clogging the intersection. (Of course, adjusting the timing of the lights could also help.)I love College Station. This is a wonderful place to live and raise my family. • I really don't like the grass strips in between the sidewalk and street. They are difficult to maintain and keep watered, without wasting water. • I strongly hope, Bryan /College Station is thinking about contructing a walking /bike trail along HW 2818, since riding a bike on its shoulder becomes increasingly frightening. • I think all sidewalks should be a minimum of 6 feet wide. No four feet wide - even if separated from curb. • I think that when improving the quality of life in a community, the focus should be on the people not the automobile. That is, neighborhoods should be designed to encourage more walking, biking as a mode of transportation. • I think the city needs to do more to maintain the public areas near residential areas, like greenbelts which could be used for walking /biking trails. If we spent less on our excessive and under - productive police force, there would be adequate funds for more of these projects. • I would like to see more bike lanes and or longer bike trails. It would also be nice to have bike lanes begin where bike trails end and vice versa. • I would like to see wide sidewalks with grass between the sidewalk and the street so that people could bike or walk on it. EG 158 at Merimont. Then I wouldn't care if the walk were on one or two sides. • I would love to have a sidewalk on my street. I don't have kids, but there are atot on the street. And with all the cars in the street they have no where to walk or ride their bikes safely. • I'd REALLY like to see a more cohesive sidewalk system along Texas Ave on the walk from downtown Bryan to Southwest Pkwy. Yes, I've done it, no I wouldn't do it again anytime soon, and yes, Lots of people who live in Bryan and work in CS desparately need these walk /bikeways along Texas. • It is silly to me to build sidewalks adjacent to very busy streets (like Greens Prairie or Texas Ave. for example). Why doesn't the city go through the extra effort to acquire easements outside of the regular right of way so sidewalks can be placed farther away from busy thoroughfares. There is usually plenty of space to do this in that is just grass area between the street and a parking area or property fence. • It would be nice to be able to connect the neighborhoods south of town to the town via a bike trail. Thanks for sending the survey. • Many of these survey questions will make most people check they want everything. The facts are many of them are very costly and if people knew they had to pay a premium in their lot purchase to get them I think the answers might be different. I am especially concerned on the amount of costs we are forcing into developments for bike trails. Very few people use them and they are too expensive to put 7 foot bike trails in the streets. Maybe we need to increase sidewalk witdths to allow more room for bikes. If people really knew what things cost they would probably change some of the answers you typically get on these surveys. • More sidewalks, please! • My answers to questions 17 and 18, that I would prefer sidewalks on both sides of the street, are dependent on my answers to questions 20 and 21, that I prefer sidewalks set back from the street with trees (shade) in the setback. Otherwise it makes the streets appear too wide and the sidewalks too unpleasant. Thank you. • One reason Wolf Pen Park doesn't get used more is that its inaccessible from Eastgate. Please construct bike and pedestrian access across Harvey Road near Munson to connect to Dartmouth. • Parents like to have at least one side walk for their children so they can avoid being IN the street. Cul -de -sacs are not as important as roads with through streets. Thanks for providing the survey. • Pedestrian controlled crosswalks would be a HUGE improvement on streets such as texas and rock prairie - especially near parks. I can think of many places (like the pool on rock prairie) where the park is not reachable because the street adjacent is 1 dangerous to cross. Pedestrian controlled would not slow traffic too much because it would only be activated when someone waanted to cross the street • Please consider creating multiple use paths along flood drainage canals (like the one that parallels Deacon on the north side). Please spend the extra money to make bike paths go UNDER the roadway when crossing a road (especially were an there is an existing bridge like the Bee Creek trail at Soutwest Parkway). • Re questions 20 and 21: When there is a strip of grass between the roadway and the sidewalk, it promotes wasteful watering practices, as there is no convenient way to water the strip without watering the sidewalk and street as well. • Sidewalks aren't used enough to spend the funds to put them on most streets much less both sides of s street. I am too old to use bike paths and parks. I think there are too many already which aren't used very often.I drive by and never see anyone ever using some of the parks. However, we must spend money maintaining them.They are nice green space. • Streetscapes should be designed with sidewalks AND sufficient room (4 -6 ft.) for trees in the tree lawns. Trees between the street and sidewalk improve pedestrian safety, make for more comfortable walking, and in some cases can reduce traffic speeds. • SWs are a delicate issue common sence should be levied by the city. Very few situations are identical. Pebble Creek is a long way from the H.S. and M. S. but close to Elem. S. SWs along Greens Prairie should not be adjacent to the street. Thanks for asking. • Thanks to the city for improving the biking lanes. I ride 4 miles each way to and from school and use them often. Information should be taught in drivers ed. though about cyclists rights vs cars. Thanks again, look forward to future improvements. • The main reason I would prefer a sidewalk set back away from the curb on a residential street would be to prevent cars from parking halfway up on the sidewalk. This goes on a lot in our neighborhood. • The streets in College Station need sidewalks. There are many neighborhoods with easements for sidewalks that were never realized. Many cities require them to be built along with initial construction of homes. There need to be ample bicycle routes that avoid conflicts with motor vehicles. There needs to be a pedestrian crosswalk across Rock Prairie connecting the Southwood valley development and the Cindy Hallman Pool. There is no debating that, overall, this city is dangerous for pedestrians /cyclists. Regarding vehicle speeds... school zones seem to be respected and enforced the best have seen in any city among several I have called home in different states. Currently, this is something; we do right. In the evenings, however, cars routinely seem to be violating posted speed limits on Texas Avenue, Wellborn Avenue, Harvey Mitchell Parkway, Longmire, Rio Grande, Welsh, Deacon, and especially Rock Prairie Rd. • There are not enough sidewalks and bicycle areas. The bikes end up on the roadways and I neary hit many of them because they're in my driving lane. • This area is DESPERATELY in need of sidewalks, particularly Bryan. 1 have lived in 4 states and numerous cities and have yet to come across a city so inadequately supplied with pedestrian walkways. • This area is in great need of more opportunities for walking and biking as a way of commuting to and from work, school, shopping, etc. • This town needs more bike lanes... 1 would ride 2 -3 times as often as I do now if I felt safe enough to clo so. • Transit stops within 1/4 mile - yeah right! Should be more specific in Q22 by what you mean by adjacent. 1/4 mile away would be great. Running through our back yard (and maybe even taking part of the yard) NO. • We have just completed a research project on parental concerns related to allowing their children to walk to school. We found that setting the walking facility away from traffic, buffered if really wide with trees, was critical to the parents. If you would like more information, TTI has a 2004 SWUTC report on the project and we would be glad to review with you as well. • When developing our subdivision we were promised sidewalks and hiking /biking trails...we have niether • I am interested in the input and look at it also from the standpoint of a teacher and the kids walking home, or taking a class on a field trip walk. Safety is very important. Parking • As tong as we have students (I am a former student -Class of 86 that don't pay their fair share of taxes it leaves the rest of us to pay the bill. My neighborhood is full of students that park on both sides of the street blocking driveways, trash pickup and mail delivery. They often have 4 people living in a house which is fine until all of the boyfriends /girlfriends etc move in too. Instead of four cars, you now have eight. I am moving to the country but enjoy C.S. and the improvements that have been made over the years. • our area has a lot of rent houses. cars park on each side of the street, leaving only a narrow path for vehichles and i cant imagine how city vehichles get through there (like trash trucks) get through. rent house areas need larger driveways or wider roads. i bet on a saturday night a firetruck couldnt make it down the street. its a matter of time before something bad happens out where i live. Parks • I am very interested in the development of park and recreation areas for my kids as they get older. They are toddlers now, and I would like to have closer access to play areas as well as sidewalks along all streets for safety. Pebble Creek is sorely tacking in play areas for kids. We have one park, and it is shared with the school. • It would be nice to have a park close to Cypress Meadows(walking distance). For us to go to a park we have to drive to Pebble Creek, Central park or Rock Prarie. • My home currently backs up to a greenbelt which I like! I would like to see a park within 1 /4 mile of every home in a subdivision. I would also like to see more biking and hiking trails. • speed zones need to be posted around major parks including Central Park and Wolf Pen Creek. The amount of traffic and the occassional speeding and loud music makes walking around the parks unpleasant. • The section of Woodcreek where I live is in desperate need for a park close by and with newer equipment than the existing park in the older section of Woodcreek. Pebble Creek Thoroughfare Issues • I live in Pebble Creek and I see a major issue with only two ways in and out of the development. With a school near one of the access points, it makes for a very difficult situation. Additional access points are critical for a development of this size. • I would like the issue of crosswalks and a stop sign at Pebble Creek Parkway and Spearman to be addressed. Currently there is no safe way for school children who live east of Pebble Creek Parkway to cross that busy road in the mornings and afternoons. With the continued development of the neighborhood, more traffic can be found on the parkway and many of the cars exceed the speed limit. It is very dangerous for children trying to walk or bike to school (no bus service is provided). I propose a crosswalk and 3 -way stop sign at the intersection of Pebble Creek Parkway and Spearman. I propose another crosswalk at the corner of PC Parkway and Royal Adelade. Also, crosswalks are needed at the intersection of Spearman and St. Andrews. We ride our bikes to and from school each day. There's rarely a day that goes by without cars properly stopping before the stop sign at that intersection. It is very unsafe and there has been more than one occassion when one of the 3 children I escort to and from school has been in harms way at that intersection. • I would like to see an exit /entrance to Pebble Creek on the Southwest side of the subdivision sometime in the future. There is a large am't of traffic and speeding on Spearman now and it would be detremental to the subdivision to open Spearmen up to Greens Prairie. • My children are both bused to school (middle school), and carpool (high school). I wish there were entrances to Pebble Creek that went out to the HWY 6 access road, not just to Greens Prairie. Greens Prairie has too many entrances along it. • My husband and I would like to see traffic lights at streets from residential areas entering major roads such as Lakeway and Greens Prairie. Also, need a traffic engineer in this fast growing area who understands traffic congestion. Light at Greens Prairie and lateral road 6 is not timed to avoid congestion at the present time. • regarding Pebble Creek, we think an exit on the Southside from Congressional would be preferable. We do not want Spearman to be extended. It is already a big speed zone with up to 60 miles /hr. Someone could be killed if it goes to front entrance. Thanks, • We need more access streets into Pebblecreek. Thanks. • We need mutlipl.e access to 6 and Greens Prairie Road out of Pebble Creek. Urban Planning / Design • After living in Raintree for more than 5 years we moved to Alexandria to be closer to shopping and work so that we could walk and bike. Raintree was too dangerous trying to cross the access road and that the drivers could not see you walking across until they turned and you were right there in the road! Being able to get places by bike and walking was our number one reason vor moving. • For good street connectivity cul -de -sacs, single gated subdivisions and dead end streets should never be allowed anymore. All streets should connect, have sidewalks on both sides and be wide enough for traffic to evenly disperse across all of them. Reliance in CS on a few major arterial streets is leading to significant traffic delays that need to be eliminated. Street connectivity is the top problem that CS now has. The top new planned communities around the world have total street connectivity. • For the safety of our children, a healthy lifestyle and in general the wellbeing of the population, it is essential for the city to have more parks, sidewalks, and biking paths. Development must also be curved to retain green forested areas (the survey only mentions parks, not as of yet undeveloped land), as gradually Bryan and College Station are turning into strip malls, where one sees little other than houses, restaurants, and shopping malls. • Having spent 15 years as a Houston Realtor, a large majority of my clients preferred to live int the Woodlands. Some of the main reasons had to do with the design of the neighborhood. very few thru- streets which cut down on fast traffic and crime. Most houses were with in walking distance of well lit bike paths and nature trails, lots of trees, close proximity to mall, restaurants etc. • I am glad that the city is interested in this issue. I have lived in various subdivisions in College Station over the last 18+ years and have been disappointed that there is so much traffic diverted through neighborhoods. In my opinion, the neighborhoods should be safe havens and the through traffic should be diverted around them. Access to local, neighborhood shopping plentiful sidewalks, and streets safe from heavy traffic would be a big plus for our neighborhoods, encouraging a sense of community and healthy lifestyle. I would really love to see a stop sign on Pebble Creek Pkwy at Spearman to slow down the heavy, fast traffic we get on Pebble Creek Pkwy. It would also provide a safe place for people to cross back and forth Pebble Creek Pkwy, which is necessary to get to the country club and for children on that side to get to the elementary school. • I find College Station an extremely frustrating town to try to find my way around in because so many of the streets don't go anywhere except into a dead end. I also find College Station somewhat antisocial because it is, eseentially, strip malls built around TAMU. CS would be a much nicer place if there was at least one area that could be mistaken for a traditional downtown. In the absence of that, if the strip malls had multistory buildings, had more in the way of larger trees (both for shade and to relieve the ugliness of acres of parking), and even were mixed -use (office, restaurant, residential) and put parking on the side away from the main thoroughfare (which has the added advantage of putting signage closer to the street), this would seem like a much friendlier place to live. At the moment, too much of the town is defined by high - traffic, wide, ugly major streets. • I love the description of Neighborhood A. Part of why I live where I do is the density and the fact that I can walk or ride my bike to most places in town, but I would love to have better bike lanes or trails and improved sidewalks etc. Pedestrian access is one of the most important features in making a desirable town in my opinion. • I might be even more interested in a choice on question 14 that would have good access to major streets, limited through traffic within the neighborhood, highly connected pedestrian ways (even more than streets) using pedestrian only links between some blocks that should not be connected by street in order to limit through traffic. • I resent being forced to respond to question 14. I left it blank on purpose in my original attempt to submit this survey and when I did, it wiped out ALL responses and I had to start over. I think your definition of a neighborhood is ridiculous as defined by question 14: the traffic flow. This is not the defining factor of quality of life and the reason I chose my home or why my neighbors chose theirs. I think you need to re -think your limited view. It also is poor to require someone to choose between both when there are neighborhoods that accomplish BOTH. That is the type of neighborhood I would prefer to live in -- traffic calming is used in municipalities all over the world except in College Station. Why is that? If the city really had vision, we would have a vision where people didn't have to choose between convience and quality of life in their neighborhoods. • I would like to see more residential developments -low density residential and higher density residential area- that follow the coving technique or preserve natural spaces and views (similar to Indian Lakes). Is there a way for the City to encourage more of this from developers? These are both very simple concepts that realty add a lot of appeal to neighborhoods and , by extension, the community. • I would not live in a home across from an athletic park or a park with loud speakers. First three requirements for buying a home were enough bedrooms for family, a good school, and a yard with trees.We need safe (alt cars stop) intersections on major roads to get to parks or to continue on trails. • I'm really pleased that College Station has begun to think about this issue. Bryan and College Station might feet more like communities than they do if we were able to walk more and actually see one another. • Once the (1)north bound Hwy6 East bypass on -ramp is re- located north,(2) the RockPrairie /East Bypass intersection commercial developments are expanded and (3)the collector between Greens Prairie / Rock Prairie is completed to intersect at Stonebrook and Rock Prairie Rd., the density and speed of non - resident, cut - through traffic in Woodcreek will increase monumentally. Neighborhood integrity will be negatively impacted, the safety issue will escalate dramatically and property values will be negatively impacted. This needs to be addressed during planning, as a major issue effecting the Woodcreek community homeowners and residents. • Our cities REALLY need safe commuter routes from the east side of the bypass. My neighborhood is on the east end of University and the intersection by Scott and White Clinic is SCARY especially when traveling west. • Question 14 is biased the ideal is one entrance to leave the neighborhood a neighborhood, not a tool for traffic control. • Question 14 is somewhat biased in its description. Thus one could be coerced into answering Neighborhood A since it has a more glowing description. Questions should be kept objective and even. • The A vs B question at the beginning seemed slanted toward A and did not give the positives of option B. Thanks, • The major question 14 has an obvious bias build in (probably intentionally). Indeed, the phrases 'There is minimal congestion when entering or leaving the neighborhood and 'Traffic congestion exists at these two access points during the morning and evening peak hours& #39 • We need more hike and bike trails for overweight kids to get some excercise. And people can't walk places, so they have to drive instead. A recent medical study found that neighborhoods where people had to drive to get anywhere had people that were much more unhealthy (overweight and sick) than those where people walked more. Why even have a survey? We all know what we need to do. Let's get on the ball! • Your Question 14 is very poorly written and are both very good examples of polar opposites. I really think you need to spend more time trying to figure out what people perceive a neighborhood to be first. There are currenity many definitions of that term. One needs only to drive around CS to see how many different ways that term is interpreted. Other • How about better planning for municipal buildings. Putting a fire station in the middle of Alexandria is not good planning. • I live in the Windwood Subdivision and our Homeowner's Association said that the City of CS has given them several options for us to vote on. Some were outrageously ridiculous in their recommendations. Does the City give subdivisions options on where they will place roads within other subdivisions? I think Appomattox should go through to Horse Haven from Hwy.30 and a two -way Switch Station road should be added. It will make things easier for school buses, the post office, and trash pickup. It'll make it easier to go to work and shopping at the Mall, etc. I could board horses more easily. Go drive balls at the driving range. I could go to Academy easier and more quickly. Heck, in thinking about it, it just might ease traffic flow on Appomatox. I also own property just to the east and it would make access easier for me and farming equipment. Let's use Appomatox for what it was intended. There are actually very few people in Windwood that are complaining about traffic and our Association isn't representing the majority of homeowners, only those that attend their meetings. • I think Appomattox should be open to thru traffic and Switch Station Road be made a 2- way from Appomattox to the feeder. It would make more sense to do that rather than build a road frorn Highway 30 over to Switch Station Road down to the feeder because that would upset many homeowners by adding a new road in their back yards, thus resulting in some having roads on 3 sides. So, why not open Appomattox as a thru street (as it was originally intended) using the money that has already been spent rather than using taxpayers&t #39 • I wish the city would consider using solid asphalt or concrete roads in the area. We have gravel and asphalt on our roads. These little rocks get in our homes and cars and cause stains. They are also very rough to drive on. • My house is close to Southwood but my kid goes to South Knoll since my ex -wife has custody 65 per cent of the time. • Please finish Longmire and Victoria ASAP! Getting in or out of our neighborhood in a timely matter in the mornings and evenings is extremely difficult. I'm not looking forward to facing the congestion when our oldest starts school @ Southwood Valley next fall. The neighborhoods on the north side of Barron Rd. need a park. It's a half mile walk from our cul -d -sac to Southern Oaks park. Barron Rd. is getting too busy for children to cross safely. • Question number 10 should have allowed more than one answer. We carpool, bus, bike and walk to my three children's schools. • South College Station NEEDS road improvement- to get out of our neighborhood in the morning, we have to almost risk our lives to get on the access road, or sit for 20 minutes waiting for an opening. Things need to change. • Speed limits need to be reduced and enforced. Although there are nice sidewalks on major thoroughfares in PC drivers frequently disregard speed limits and potential hazards to pedestrians. • The 1st suggestion:crossbridge over highway 6 in Barron Rd. It will be decrease traffic in Rock Prairie and Greens Prairie with highway 6 crosssection. The 2nd: The connections between Barron Rd to Greens Prairie, such as Decatur Dr. connected to Greens Prairie. More traffics will be in that area after oneway bypass changes and new school opens later next year (2005). The 3rd: More connections between Barron Rd to Rock Prairie. • The greatest traffic problem that exists in CS today is not the lack of sidewalks. The problem is the traffic lighting system. It is woefully inaddequate to meet the demands of our current traffic volume. It encourages traffic to divert through the housing areas due to the congestion that occurs on the major roads. That result should be the last thing one would want. Traffic signals last far too long for one way, then allow three cars to go the other before the cycle begins again. That along with the rediculous setup to have the through lane be the right turn lane as well. Talk about bottlenecking! Brilliant! Anyway, sorry to ramble! Fix the lights and the other problems will fade in importance. • The survey is not set up for more than one child. My son walks (with a parent) to Rock Prairie Elementary, but my daughter is driven to Cypress Grove. Next year she will walk to CSMS, so they will both walk. • would like our streets fix. Street in front of our house has holed all over it,have called to report frequently an they just come an fill holes. Supposely roads are suppose to be fixed in our area but when will this happend. Isn't this why we pay city taxes for. • You make the assumption that everyone has only 1 child in 1 school we have 2 who have gone to different schools prior to this year. Sidewalk width is also a factor that seems relevant to your study - -5 ft is a minimum as far as I am concerned because of the problem of walking side by side on narrower sidewalks. • You need to put in light timers on college station. Traffic sucks around TAMU. Get if figured out. Apply for more grants for grade seperation.