HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - Mail Packet - 12/20/2022 - Memorandum From Aaron Iverson And Cortney Geary Re: Questions Raised During First Reading Of Active Modes Plan
FC Moves
200 W. Mountain Ave.
P.O. Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580
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Planning, Development & Transportation
DATE: December 20, 2022
TO: Mayor Arndt and Councilmembers
THRU: Kelly DiMartino, City Manager
Tyler Marr, Deputy City Manager
Caryn Champine, PDT Director
Drew Brooks, Interim PDT Deputy Director
FROM: Aaron Iverson, FC Moves, Senior Manager
Cortney Geary, FC Moves, Active Modes Manager
RE: Questions Raised During First Reading of Active Modes Plan
Purpose
This memo is a follow up to questions raised by Councilmembers during the First Reading of the
Ordinance adopting the Active Modes Plan.
Paved Trail Safety and Courtesy
Councilmembers expressed concerns about trail safety and courtesy. Several City departments
collaborate to address these issues:
• Park Planning and Development is responsible for acquisition, design, and construction
of major paved trails.
• Parks is responsible for maintenance of paved trails.
• FC Moves collaborates with Parks to educate the public on trail safety and courtesy.
Councilmembers asked about the following strategies for addressing trail safety and courtesy
including:
• Permanent Signage: The Parks Department has installed 40+ signs at the major access
points to all paved trails and at trail kiosks notifying trail users of the courtesy speed
maximum of 15 mph. Signage also notifies trail users of designated slow zones on the
Poudre Trail between the Northside Aztlan Community Center and Lee Martinez Park, at
the Shields underpass of the Spring Creek Trail, the Hill Pond area on Spring Creek Trail,
and at Golden Meadows Park on the Power Trail. Examples of these signs are below:
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• Temporary Signage: Corrugated plastic signs reminding trail users of the courtesy speed
maximum are moved around the trail system as needed to address issues identified by
residents.
• Education: The FC Moves Adult Education team features trail etiquette as part of Smart
Cycling and B(e)-bike Savvy classes. Staff also work with Parks to address specific
concerns raised by residents, including doing pop-up education events with Park Rangers
to engage with people walking and riding bicycles about trail etiquette. Staff also
disseminate safety messaging via social media posts and newsletter articles. The Safe
Routes to School program teaches trail etiquette to youth, including riding on the right side
of the trail, riding single file when in a group, yielding to pedestrians, ringing a bell or
saying “on your left” before passing another trail user, and maintaining a safe speed. A
total of 6,000 to 7,000 K-12 students participate in hands-on bicycle and pedestrian safety
training each year through this program.
• Enforcement: The courtesy maximum speed limit of 15 mph is not enforced. Users are
expected to use their best judgement and remain situationally aware. The City’s three Park
Rangers patrol the trails on a regular basis providing information and education, but they
spend most of their time responding to direct calls across 36-square miles.
• Call boxes: The City has two call boxes located along trails near the Poudre Whitewater
Park and in Crescent Park.
• Lighting: Based on the design standards in the 2013 Paved Recreational Trail Master
Plan, the trail system is not lit except at underpasses where “dark sky” friendly light fixtures
are used to help trail users enter, travel through, and exit these facilities.
Staff continuously improve and adapt strategies to address trail safety and courtesy. The
upcoming update to the Paved Recreational Trail Plan offers an opportunity to refocus on how
the design and management of the paved trail network can reinforce safety and courtesy.
Spin Speed Restrictions
Spin uses geofencing to control the speed and operation of shared electric micromobility devices
based on the vehicle type and context as shown in the table below.
Speed restrictions are one of many ways Spin and the City are committed to improving safety for
micromobility users including:
• Safe Vehicles: Spin inspects devices frequently. Spin received 196 maintenance requests
in the first year.
• Safe People: Spin promotes safe behavior with:
o Messaging
o Events
o Penalties
o Speed governors
• Safe Routes:
o Active Modes Plan recommendations for safe and connected networks
o Vision Zero Action Plan strategies to eliminate fatalities/serious injuries
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