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Brooks, stopped at the stop sign, it's almost impossible in a normal vehicle. There's just no good reason for a curb like that on the south side of the intersection that sticks out like that, I think normal signage would be more appropriate. I don't know if there have been complaints about speeding in the neighborhood, I'm not aware of any pedestrian accidents near Keya. I live at Brooks and Hamline, a couple houses in, I work from home quite a bit, I walk and skate and ride bikes with myyoung daughter on the streets of this neighborhood, and I've never had anything near a close call or other traffic incident which makes me think that anything outlined on the south side of the intersection of Pascal and Brooks is necessary or would keep us safer. A sidewalk or some safe zone on the north side of the intersection to Keya is fine, but please do not modify the southeast corner of Pascal and Brooks. Even if the curb on the south side of Pascal bumped out half as far as the markers are now, itwould be too far. 5. Good morning- I am writing to provide feedback on the Pascal Street pilot project. I walk, run, and bicycle through this neighborhood (where I also live) quite frequently and I do not feel that narrowing the roadway here is necessary. There is not much traffic on Pascal Street and it usually is concentrated duringthe rush hourwith people drivingto and from their homes to work. I have never felt unsafe walking along this stretch of road. 6. 1 do walk alongthat street, and I've never seen a need for more protection from cars. When I walk I'm often with mywife, and always with one or two dogs, so it's not like I'm a single person that can easily stay tight against the curb. But even so I've never felt like there was a close callwith traffic. Cars always seem to give enough room that it's easy to avoid each other. About half the time that I've seen pedestrians along that stretch of road since the temporary sidewalkwent in they have not been using it. Sometimes they are on the opposite side of the road, sometimes two or more people are walking side -by -side with one in the sidewalk and the other in the driving lanes, and other times people are just walking in what used to be the middle of the street. So cars losing the use of part of the road frequently forces them closer to pedestrians than theywould have been before. And while the sections of the temporary sidewalk on Brooks and on the southeast corner of Brooks and Pascal aren't really large enough to be helpful to pedestrians, they do significantly impede traffic. Even though the posts on the northeast corner are quite close to the curb, cars comingwest on Brooks tend to move closer to the center of the road as they come to the stop sign at Pascal. Then when a vehicle is coming north on Pascal and turning east on Brooks the posts there force them well toward the center of the road. I've had a few times since the temporary sidewalkwent in that I had to drive uncomfortably close to another car in this location. So I see the temporary sidewalk as unnecessary, unattractive and probably less safe than the wider road. I would like it to be removed soon. 7. Thanks for your effort to make this part of street safer. I often bike with my grand children passing through this part of the street. I often think this is potentially an area of accidents: the over -path hump is simplytoo high to bike over and bikers mostly do it by zig-zagging. That is dangerous since the incoming cars will not notice the bikers unless gettingtoo close. Seeingthe signs you placed, I would offer two inputs as feedback: 1)the south east corner signs may not be necessary. It makes the street lookweird ...I understand you are preparing the north bound drivers, but is really not 2 Page 23 of 84