Okay. We are going to call the North Main Street Task Force to order. I am Doctor.
Owens, Andrew Bois, Chair of
the Task Force. Can we please do a roll call? Chair Andrew Bois. I'm here. Vice Chair Panigian.
Lieutenant Brown is absent. Maricel Loeb is absent. Peter Camera is absent. Thomas Badway
is absent. Ms. Engel? Here.
Rosie Jaslow? Here. We have seven present and four absent, we have a form. Awesome, and I also want to recognize David Marchana, who will be part of the task force. It's Archina.
Archina. Archina. Archina. It just hasn't gone through on the agenda yet, but you are on mute. We're grateful, I'm grateful you're here.
And I often like to have us start off by just going around the table and saying our names, and like what constituency we represent, because some people do watch on the YouTube, and they can't see our name tags from there, and so if we could just do a quick round if folks don't mind. So I'm Zander Bois, City Councilwoman for Ward 3, charge the task force.
Good evening, I'm Sean Raymond for Department of Transportation.
Hi, I'm Sarah Ingold with Virta.
I'm Nader, so I manage traffic engineering for the city province.
I'm John Phelps, AV project manager.
Adriana Costa, I'm the clerk liaison. Perthak Kapaldi, I'm the SS St. Clark.
My name is Archner. I'm a neighborhood resident representative.
Daniel Starcham, board of law department. Ryan Dickerson, planning department.
Hi, everyone. I'm Rosie Jaswell. I'm the Green and Complete Streets Advisory Council representative. I'm also a transportation engineer with school design and leading the North Main Street corridor improvement project that we're here to present this week.
I'm Jenny Pitigan. I'm vice chair for the task force and I'm representing the Broward Inn Streets Coalition.
Awesome, so we have a pretty packed agenda, so I'm gonna get us right into it, but I'm gonna say three quick things first. One is that we do always have a public comment at the end, but also I do allow for questions and stuff throughout. So once the task force has time to ask questions, like people who are here, who are not on the task force, we will, like, you will be able to ask questions. But if you do want to sign up for public comment at the end, you do have to sign up on the sign in sheet. If you are not signed in on the sign in sheet, I will know what's on your name, and you won't get to be a public comment.
So the sign in is on that table under the big screen. If you could just sign your name in there, and then if you haven't got handouts, like if you are a member of the public now on the task force, all the handouts are also right there next to the sign in sheet. So without further ado, I think that's all I want to say, yep, can you please read item number one into the record? Updates and discussion on traffic, farming, pilot plans for North Main And DoyleRandall Street intersection. Awesome.
I am really excited about this, and we have Dylan from the Streets Coalition who's gonna walk us through it, but also Sean from RideOp is here as well. And it is Oh, if I while he gets situated, if I could have a motion to make this beautiful document, it could be fine. Or really anyone. Thank you. Do I have a second?
Okay. That's a good one. So it sounds like record. Dylan, do you wanna walk us through what we're looking at here?
Sure. Hi, everyone. Thank you for having me. Thank you for taking time to look at this project. Just a little bit of background.
In 2025, we did our first traffic calming measure on North Main Street at the intersection of Olney Street, Bedford Street, North Main. It has been a big success. Think it's been pretty well received by the neighborhood. The initial capital coming plan was for five planters in the perfect extension at that intersection. We've been maintaining that intersection by watering the planters regularly, and it has been very good project.
So using grant funding from Bloom, which funded the original 2025 plan, the additional funding from AARP and Riverview to move to the next intersection to the south to the north, rather, which is North Main Street, Randle Street, Benford Street. And I'm sorry. Go out the street. So what you're looking at on this schematic or on the Spritish Plan rather is annotated by the Streets Coalition. So the black lines and the white circles were part of the original engineering for this intersection.
The red circles are the Streets Coalition's role in this project. So I wanted to be clear about the parties who are you know, operating here. Rideout has initiated this traffic following plan using the original reconfiguration of the turn lane from Doyle onto North Main Street. That's the one in front of Jerry's or on the bottom of this diagram. So that was approved two years ago at the State State Traffic Commission, allowing for some of the closure of lane on the opposite side.
Randall has only had one lane at that point. And then also, we put additional curb extensions, which are the black lines on this striping plan, which are now painted currently in the intersection. They're obviously white lines out in the real world. So a lot of credit to write off for this ambitious plan. You'll also see flexible delineated posts on the Randle side on the top of the diagram.
We're also we're hoping to Ben talked with Sean about doing additional flex posts around the furniture of the truck, the extensions on the lower part of the side frame. So that is a little bit the plan is for 10 planters. If you look, in the various areas, we've talked with some of the we've talked with Cherry's Arderrama. Thank you to council for taking some time on the weekends to talk to the manager, Cherry's. They've been thinking a lot about this, having had some having witnessed some personally, with some some pretty awful crashes here.
I will note also there were two fatalities at this intersection as well as an additional one closest to Pleasant. So this has been the focus of a lot of of attention, not just of this task force, but right out
Yeah. We're I'm meeting with the folks at Amos House who occupy 5050 Randle Street. The party is Charles Gate. It only operates a couple of those facilities. Amos House is in 50 Randle.
So we're gonna be meeting with them, making sure the residents of the towers know what we're doing. Obviously, those residents are directly impacted by the safety of this intersection, using it regularly to go to and from across the street, the bus stops, and like that. A couple of things that we're going to need or things that are a little on the nail down right now. Jerry has been asking RIPTA for trash can to be returned to that bus stop. Trash is a really big issue.
It's one of the it's a really heavily used bus stop in front of Jerry's and Roadrunner, which are the two businesses there. I sent customer service a request on their behalf and kind of a request. There was a trash can there I don't know why it was removed by the way it was crashed into. We really don't want these planters to become trash cans. That's one of the biggest concerns.
It's one of the biggest maintenance concerns of ours because, obviously, we're gonna be responsible for them, and we're gonna be trying to keep them as tidy as possible. So a trash bin there would be great. The additional flex boats that aren't part of this original plan that Sean and I have been talking about, and possibility of having those. And then watering, it's going to be a lot more challenging here than it is at our current site. The current site is near the home of a really enthusiastic neighbor who we just drag our hose down the hill and water them.
So we did that with me a couple of weeks ago. And this is not that intersection. You're not gonna drive a hose across North Main Street, I don't think so. We we have a little bit of planning to do, and we might just end up needing to hire that service for project. So I'll be happy to answer any questions.
And thank you again to everyone who's been helping to make this possible.
No. Thank you so much, Dylan. And also thank you to Rideoff for already doing the shipping. And can you mention the timing that
earlier? The timing? Yeah. We've ordered the printers. They're on order, I think, two to three weeks from the manufacturer.
They're coming from British Columbia. I have by the way, presume actually, that's the sorry. This is the the schematics for planters. These are the same planters that are out there now. They're polyurethane.
They're plastic, but they're very quite heavy. And like I said, the current ones that are out there have been at the same very intense winter. Snow plowing. I know snow plowing is gonna be a lot more a challenge here at this intersection given the large it is, but I think it will be possible. So timing wise, we're thinking early to mid November, we'll get these out.
