Complete Streets & Bikeway Committee

City of Middletown Complete Streets Committee Regular Meeting Minutes Monday, June 12, 2023, 7 PM Location: WebEx Attendees: Laura Baum, Howard Weissberg, John Hall, Ayhan Assadourian, Lisa Liesener, John Yarmolovich, Serena Levingston 1. Current/ongoing projects: ● Air Line Trail – Farmington Canal Trail (ALT-FCT) Connector Study Update ○ VHB has been selected as the consultant. Scope looks at gaps in trail to see how best to address. Think study may begin in June. ● Saybrook Road (East Main to Tryon) ○ Project being split into 2 phases. Water main replacement part will go first and start as phase 1. ○ Enlisting some additional enforcement and outreach to try and finalize with remaining residents. Water folks are trying to schedule their work before the end of the year; this part is not hindered by right of way restrictions. ● Saybrook Road (Randolph to Aircraft) ○ Rework of concrete sections headed toward P&W is in planning. Hope to be paving that section in a year or two. ● Micro-Transit and Micro-mobility (bikes/scooters) ○ No bikes/scooters this year. No updates or information about what is going on with the vendor. ● Bike Friendly Middletown application ○ John Yarmolovich would like to see Middletown become a Bicycle Friendly Community and wants to learn more about the process. Laura will connect John and Cat Young, who has done work on this previously. ● Washington & DeKoven Dr intersection ○ No information yet on when the next DOT public event will be related to Route 9. ● Washington & Rte 3/Vine intersection work ○ Crosswalks and lights are installed at the intersection. ○ John Hall will send Howard an image showing the area where we’d like to see additional sidewalks in this area. ● Complete Streets Leadership Academies ○ The group has a meeting tomorrow and Howard can provide updates after that. ● Community Connectivity Grant application ○ Previously Howard had discussed possibility of city applying for Community Connectivity Grant to improve sidewalk ramp accessibility in the area bordered by High, Church, Broad, and Washington. However, the city ultimately decided not to apply at this time and to focus on the work that needs to be done for Butternut Park improvements (already funded). ○ City is looking forward to a full pavement management system inspection this summer or early fall. Having a full inventory will help with a future application for 1  this area. They also might be able to address the High Street ramp/access issues on the west side of High Street adjacent to Wesleyan University’s campus. ● Events ○ Bike Night ■ Ayhan sought additional feedback on this event, tentatively scheduled for Sat, September 9, maybe with an 11:30am start. Howard pointed out that closing down a city street is often factored into the city budget a year in advance, so it might be hard for that to happen this year, but perhaps this year could be a ride and next year they could do something more. 2. Reports from other pertinent regular meetings/events: ● ECOIN ○ No updates ● Sustainable Middletown / CT ○ Serena Livingston had questions about aspects of the application that we discussed in detail. Laura will follow up with a memo about the Complete Streets map updates and committee membership. 3. New Business: Notes: - Next meeting: Monday, July 10, 2023, 7 PM (WebEx) - Next quarterly Public Works/Planning depts. Meeting: TBD 2