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Attachment 3 PILOT PROJECT COMMENTS 1. I wondered what the delineators were for when installed at the corner of Pascal St/Brooks, then received a postcard stating a pilot project to understand walking access to the park, formerly known as Pocahontas Park. This makes no sense. How does this create a safer path to the park when these are on two of the four corners of the intersection. People walk outside of these delineators, notwithin them. Not everyone walks to the park from the same direction. How do these slow traffic? I live one house from the corner of Pascal/Brooks, and have for 26 years. I see no issue with walkingto the park, and do NOTwant any type of sidewalk installed. One of the beauties of the neighborhood is that there are no sidewalks. Residents of the area enjoywalking in the streets, with their dogs and neighbors, without sidewalks. The studythat should be implemented is in regards to the speedingtraffic on Pascal Street. The residents of the apartment complex at the deadend of Snelling Curve continue to speed up and down the street, flying over the hill by the park, racing through this intersection without regard for safety. And yes the majority of these vehicles come from that apartment complex, as confirmed by them parked in the apartment parking lot and adjacent street. This is more of a safety concern. For as long as I have been in my home here, there has been controversy about the speed on Pascal. Neighbors have said theytried to get speed bumps installed, the City declined. They tried to get four-way stop signs installed, the City declined. The speed has increased, the volume of cars has increased up and down Pascal and nothing has been done to curb that. There are a number of families with young children right at this corner, at least 15 to count. They as well as anyone walking in this area are at risk of a confrontation with a speeding vehicle. Will it take an incident, accident or worse for somethingto be done about the speed traffic on Pascal? I thinkyou are wasting time on an unnecessary study of a corner and should concentrate on a longer standing more problematic issue. 2. My name is [REDACTED] and I am a resident of Pascal Street. My spouse and I have lived across from the park for 6 years, and the hill approaching the park has always felt nerve wracking, as a driver and as a pedestrian. There are a lot of children in the neighborhood who like to bike and play in the park, so the new barrier feels like a natural and beneficial addition! Our family appreciates the new safety measures! 3. lam against these white markers that you put on the street on Pascal. You've made it an obstacle course, and difficult to turn onto Brooks. I think the people in this area and their children have enough common sense and that these white markers are causing nothing but trouble. I feel the same way about the markers that you put upon Hamline by the Cedarholm Golf course. It seems like you're removing valuable roadway. 4. Hi -I just wanted to offer some feedback on the Pascal St project. I don't understand and don't like the proposed curbs on the southside. Two, really 4 of the temporary markers are insanely far out in the road, forcing traffic out into the center of Pascal. A permanent curb thereon the south side of the intersection would constantly begetting hit and clipped no matter how well it is marked, it's just way to far out. I also don't know how school buses are expected to make that right turn from northbound Pascal onto Brooks. It would be impossible to do if there was a vehicle westbound on Page 22 of 84