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  Acknowledged DPW Pine Customer Service (Verified Official)

  Thank you for reporting this issue. The Department of Public Works will now begin its investigation into the matter.

  09/21/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  jkc (Registered User)

  This is a concern through the whole Home/Flynn/Pine Ave The Champlain Parkway was devised and promised to help remedy the outrageous commuter and truck traffic of people trying to get into Burlington off of I-189. Our current DPW leadership and new majority of the City Council think that they can magically wish car use away. Yet it gets worse and worse with online shopping and workers getting pushed farther out of Burlington by astronomical housing prices. The most recent announcement by the DPW stated that they will do nothing about the real problem which federal funds were earmarked to address, and will instead attempt to use it for pet projects while punting the actual issue of alleviating traffic in the Addition to 2027 when they cynically suggest that the city council can kill the Champlain Parkway. They are playing us for suckers and think we will not notice.

  http://www.champlainparkway.com/media/vz0dist4/e-champlain-parkway-august-2021-ls-fseis.pdf

  In the short term the traffic you speak of will only get much worse with the work on the Shelburne Roundabout.

  09/21/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  Gil (Registered User)

  jkc Do you know when the Champlain parkway is supposed to be built, the person in charge of it in Burlington and the phone number for them?

  09/21/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  jkc (Registered User)

  DPW has recently split the Champlain Parkway project into two construction contracts. That is, as they state, so the City Council can approve a substantial portion of the project at first to be constructed (using the federal funds) WITHOUT CONNECTING THE ROAD TO I-189! . The Council will then "determine" the appropriate time to authorize the Final Construction Contract sometime after 2027 which is absurd because the reason the whole project was approved and federal monies granted was to alleviate traffic on neighborhood streets which requires connecting the road to I-189.

  Also, the promise that traffic would be taken off of neighborhood streets to I-189 by this connection is what Higher Ground used to argue that 800 cars wouldn't add traffic to neighborhood streets. But the Council has no intention of ever connecting the road to I-189. DPW is taking the federal money to build their pet projects that have been shoehorned into the larger project with a promise that the connection will come sometime in the future. They have to play this political game because FHWA and VTrans continue to state that the City will face repayment for project expenses incurred if the full Champlain Parkway project as designed and permitted is not completed.

  So the final piece, as concocted by DPW, will be the forever promised, never delivered connection to I-189, which is a large reason why the whole thing was deemed necessary in the first place. A fact once again upheld by the latest impact statement.

  The info is down a few pages in this document.
  https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/sites/default/files/Agendas/Packet_25.pdf
  http://www.champlainparkway.com/media/vz0dist4/e-champlain-parkway-august-2021-ls-fseis.pdf

  09/21/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  Gil (Registered User)

  I talked to the guy in charge of the project this afternoon and he said the thing is going out for bid this winter and hopefully the first stage will be starting to get built either in the winter or spring and the next stage will be from 189 to the south end. He says it will take up to 5 years to complete

  09/21/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  Jim (Registered User)

  Honestly I’m sitting outside listening to a cacophony of illegal exhausts and speeding vehicles on Home Avenue and wondering if perhaps withholding our 5-figure tax bills would yank the city’s chain hard enough to actually do something about traffic here.

  09/21/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  Kenneth Allen (Registered User)

  I agree with these comments. The amount and speed of the traffic moving through the Addition is down right unsafe. Richardson and Foster don't even have sidewalks which forces people to walk in the road with all this traffic. I've been advocating for sidewalks for years but rather than put in sidewalks where there are none, DPW decided that it would be a better use of our money to dig up the sidewalks on Scarff, bury the electrical lines, and put in new side walks. Considering that the flow of both foot and car traffic is north and south, why would DPW prioritize sidewalks that run east and west?

  09/22/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  JG (Registered User)

  I am also waiting on the results of years' long "data collection" on the Pine street corridor between Ferguson and Home. Anyone passing through there recognizes the need for traffic calming, especially following the removal of parking spaces a few years ago that created a wider lane for speeders to travel undeterred. It's downright dangerous to walk, bike, (and drive!) with the elevated speeds of the regular traffic passing by.

  09/22/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  Sara (Registered User)

  Bumping this request! Traffic calming in the Addition, please!

  09/22/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  jkc (Registered User)

  If the Champlain Parkway isn't done in 5 years what are the consequences? Maybe HWA and VTrans should make the stipulation that the City must repay the project expenses (15 million of which I think are already spent) if the full Champlain Parkway project as designed and permitted is not completed within 5 years. That is the only way that I trust any real movement will happen, other than on the multi-use path, paving roads and upgrading crosswalks, which is great, but are not the reason why the project is so badly needed. So much deferred maintenance has been delayed to use these funds. As always, follow the money.
  
  There are enough escalating negative quality-of-life issues in Burlington that our very inexperienced and ideologically distracted city council members have neither the will nor the aptitude to address. The silent, non-activist portion of our citizenry will have to decide when they have had enough performative political theater and demand real action on real issues.

  09/22/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  Gil (Registered User)

  I called Vtrans first yesterday and I was told to call the person in charge of the project at DPW so I don't know if I'm getting the runaround or not but it seems like it

  09/22/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  Burlington, VT (Verified Official)

  You are receiving this message because you have previously (or perhaps just now) submitted a request on SeeClickFix. We're excited to let you know that we are now implementing a comprehensive asset management program which is a mostly "behind the scenes" effort. This will enable more efficient, more effective and more fiscally sound infrastructure management. Nothing changes for you and we'll continue to use SeeClickFix, but we have had to automate a process to connect our open SCF requests with our asset management program. There may be the occasional bug to work out, but rest assured that your issue is still in queue and assigned to the right City staffer. Once this initial round of automation is through in about a week, we'll revert back to our standard messages on SeeClickFix.

  10/15/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  DPW Planning NL (Verified Official)

  Thank you for inquiring about traffic calming. We have requested traffic and crash data to help us determine the best options moving forward. For an overview of the process, please visit https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/dpw/TrafficCalming

  We'll follow up with more information once we've completed our review of traffic and crash data, which will occur during this coming winter. The traffic calming program is very popular and there is a queue of streets ahead of this request, but we will use the winter months to develop any improvement plans for the coming year.

  10/15/2021 · Flag Flagged
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  Gil (Registered User)

  Dpw planning, you always make up excuses

  10/15/2021 · Flag Flagged

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