Traffic Congestion and Safety
Actions:
I am a transit advocate and have raised my children to use transit and their feet as their primary means of transportation. My 17 year old daughter
takes transit to high school in San Francisco and has not yet learned to drive. My 14 year old son walks home from Tamalpais High School and
back up the Dipsea Stairs to our home every day ~ a 2 mile walk.
I initiated and negotiated a private transit arrangement with the U.C.S.F. Marin Commute Club buses to bring Marin high school students to the
Urban School of S.F. This program has served over 100 families with students commuting to S.F. The program was so successful that the Urban
School of S.F. now runs the program in-house as the UCSF club bus system, due to fuel and labor costs, became uneconomic for our families.
Ultimately, I created a private transit service that has a life of its own.
My work at the County of Marin has given me the chance to initiate programs that have reduced neighborhood traffic in unincorporated Mill Valley
including street design, traffic calming devices, safe bike lanes and paths, pedestrian and school walking paths, and better transit, including the
Muir Woods Shuttle, a successful 3 year pilot program that took well over 25,000 passenger trips off our roads this year. I have been an active
member of the Safe Routes to School Committee helping to increase the numbers of school children walking, riding bikes or carpooling to schools.
On the Mill Valley Planning Commission, I have pressed for better pedestrian safety and bicycle infrastructure on both residential applications and
larger developments. I have consistently advocated for the inclusion of international best practices for paths and bike lanes, including colored
paving, raised lanes at intersections, and protected cycle tracks along Miller Avenue.
Ideas:
My strong commitment is to integrate our city’s land use decisions, most notably with the plan for Miller Avenue, with a bold and forward-thinking
plan for local transit alternatives. This is the most significant and effective way we can address greenhouse gas emissions on a local level. Our goal
should be to get people out of their cars and onto shuttles on the flats and jitneys on the hills, and on feet and bikes. I will work to bring a pilot
shuttle to the triangle and a jitney to the hills. I will advocate for better transit for our city and for the entire county.
I will help Mill Valley restore and improve the priority paths in our historic legacy of steps, lanes and paths. Mill Valley started out as village nestled
next to the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. People used to get around and downtown on this network of paths to the train that brought them where they
needed to go. I will work to bring forward protected bike lanes and cycle tracks (wide bike lanes inboard of parked cars near the sidewalk), bike
storage and lockers, wide sidewalks with resting places and water fountains. I will invest in infrastructure built for people not vehicles. We can
make transit choices of all types more inviting while serving practical needs and addressing urgent environmental imperatives.
To assure that Mill Valley has a presence in regional transit planning, I would assure that the Mill Valley’s representive to the Transportation
Agency of Marin and Marin Transit attends meetings and provides vigorous advocacy for Mill Valley’s transit needs. Transit throughout the County
and the region is woefully under funded. We must work at the local, state and national level with our elected representatives to press for more
funding for transit. This is an imperative if we hope to beat the climate clock.
Actions:
I am a transit advocate and have raised my children to use transit and their feet as their primary means of transportation. My 17 year old daughter
takes transit to high school in San Francisco and has not yet learned to drive. My 14 year old son walks home from Tamalpais High School and
back up the Dipsea Stairs to our home every day ~ a 2 mile walk.
I initiated and negotiated a private transit arrangement with the U.C.S.F. Marin Commute Club buses to bring Marin high school students to the
Urban School of S.F. This program has served over 100 families with students commuting to S.F. The program was so successful that the Urban
School of S.F. now runs the program in-house as the UCSF club bus system, due to fuel and labor costs, became uneconomic for our families.
Ultimately, I created a private transit service that has a life of its own.
My work at the County of Marin has given me the chance to initiate programs that have reduced neighborhood traffic in unincorporated Mill Valley
including street design, traffic calming devices, safe bike lanes and paths, pedestrian and school walking paths, and better transit, including the
Muir Woods Shuttle, a successful 3 year pilot program that took well over 25,000 passenger trips off our roads this year. I have been an active
member of the Safe Routes to School Committee helping to increase the numbers of school children walking, riding bikes or carpooling to schools.
On the Mill Valley Planning Commission, I have pressed for better pedestrian safety and bicycle infrastructure on both residential applications and
larger developments. I have consistently advocated for the inclusion of international best practices for paths and bike lanes, including colored
paving, raised lanes at intersections, and protected cycle tracks along Miller Avenue.
Ideas:
My strong commitment is to integrate our city’s land use decisions, most notably with the plan for Miller Avenue, with a bold and forward-thinking
plan for local transit alternatives. This is the most significant and effective way we can address greenhouse gas emissions on a local level. Our goal
should be to get people out of their cars and onto shuttles on the flats and jitneys on the hills, and on feet and bikes. I will work to bring a pilot
shuttle to the triangle and a jitney to the hills. I will advocate for better transit for our city and for the entire county.
I will help Mill Valley restore and improve the priority paths in our historic legacy of steps, lanes and paths. Mill Valley started out as village nestled
next to the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. People used to get around and downtown on this network of paths to the train that brought them where they
needed to go. I will work to bring forward protected bike lanes and cycle tracks (wide bike lanes inboard of parked cars near the sidewalk), bike
storage and lockers, wide sidewalks with resting places and water fountains. I will invest in infrastructure built for people not vehicles. We can
make transit choices of all types more inviting while serving practical needs and addressing urgent environmental imperatives.
To assure that Mill Valley has a presence in regional transit planning, I would assure that the Mill Valley’s representive to the Transportation
Agency of Marin and Marin Transit attends meetings and provides vigorous advocacy for Mill Valley’s transit needs. Transit throughout the County
and the region is woefully under funded. We must work at the local, state and national level with our elected representatives to press for more
funding for transit. This is an imperative if we hope to beat the climate clock.