[bouldercouncilhotline] Hotline: RE: Comments on d2d Pilot

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Sender: Connelly, Susan

Dear Mary,

Thank you so much for sharing these thoughts. Your words echo much of what we have discussed as we work on d2d.

We, too, see the next natural iteration of this initial pilot, which is focused on downtown customers during the holiday season, as being a focus on downtown employees. Shared mobility could be a useful first- and last-mile option to make transit ridership more feasible for more people. Mobility as a Service also could be a supplement to use of the EcoPass for those with unusual schedules, exactly as you have identified.

We are excited to see what we can learn from this first pilot program over six to 12 weeks and to finding ways to expand its reach and benefits as soon as possible thereafter. If the pilot goes well, we plan to work on finding ways and funds to offer a similar service to downtown employees. Thanks for your support, and for your continuing feedback. If you would like to discuss further, please reach out to me.
Susan

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From: Young, Mary
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 11:17 AM
To: Connelly, Susan <ConnellyS at bouldercolorado.gov>; Winter, Molly <WinterM at bouldercolorado.gov>
Cc: HOTLINE <HOTLINE at bouldercolorado.gov>
Subject: Comments on d2d Pilot


Molly and Susan,



Thank you for the short presentation on the "d2d" initiative. I would like to share some thoughts regarding the pilot.



The effort should go further and recognize who is at the root of downtown economic vitality: employees. They are the many who work retail, restaurants and various other service jobs that make everything possible. Transportation programs, specifically transit, are generally not targeted toward these workers with non-standard hours and shift work. Consequently, they are forced to drive.



Yes, CAGID does make EcoPasses available to them, but as already stated, public transportation is not designed with their situations in mind. Many live outside of Boulder.



As you move forward, please keep this in mind. The city can choose to create programs that consider everyone that makes economic vitality possible. I would like to see us make that conscious choice as you examine "what may be applicable to other users and other parts of our community."



Additionally, I would like us to always start a program by asking "Who benefits?" And, if the answer to that question is not "those who need it most," we go back to square one.



Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!



The d2d Pilot from this week's memo:
This downtown mobility pilot program is intended to: reduce the parking demand from downtown customers who currently drive and park single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs); encourage the return of former downtown customers who no longer shop and dine downtown because of the perceived challenge of parking; support the economic vitality of downtown Boulder and city sales tax generated from downtown during the critical holiday shopping season; support the city's Toward Vision Zero safety initiatives by possibly reducing impaired and distracted driving; promote "Mobility as a Service" as Boulder prepares for a future with less need to own, drive and park SOVs; and learn what may be applicable to other users and other parts of our community.



Mary Dolores Young
Boulder City Council
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"All ethics . . . rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts . . ." - Aldo Leopold
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