1. Session 4A: Complete Streets and Safety
Monday, June 24, 2019
Session 4A: Complete Streets and Safety
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Hello and Welcome to our 2019 Annual Meeting Technical Session 4A, where we will receive four unique presentations about various aspects of creating Complete Streets and Safety.
My name is Mjy and I am a registered civil engineer and traffic engineer in the state of California, working for most of my 30+ years of engineering as a traffic engineer for agencies in Sonoma County, either in their employment or as a consultant at W-Trans.

2. Session 4A – Complete Streets and Safety
Joshua Saak| Ada County
Ross Ainsworth| GHD
Lindsey Van Parys| GHD
Gabriel Ho | City of San Francisco
I am also very pleased to moderate this panel of four practitioners in the field of traffic engineering. Their presentations will be 15 to 20 minutes in length. To ensure that all of them have adequate time for their presentations, we request that you provide your questions and comments after the last speaker.

3. #1 Speaker Joshua Saak| Ada County
“Data Driven Traffic Calming Policy”
Our first speaker is Josh Saak who is a traffic engineer for the Ada County Highway District in Boise, Idaho. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and has 19 years of experience in the transportation industry, twelve of those in his current position. At ACHD, he considers himself part engineer, part educator, and part psychologist in his approach to solving technical challenges. He is the past president of the Idaho Chapter of ITE and the co-local arrangement chair for the upcoming Mountain District annual meeting in Boise in 2022.
His presentation outlines a process for updating the Ada County traffic calming policy that was largely unchanged for 25 years. We wanted to take a more data-driven approach to the process, not relying strictly on other jurisdictions for our policy. Our process did include a literature review of various other policies, but that was more of a starting point looking at factors others employed and how well they might apply to our area. Through robust data collection, we attempted to identify those factors and possibly upend previous assumptions about roadway characteristics that lead to a more fair and balanced program.

4. #2 Speaker Ross Ainsworth| GHD
“Evolution of a Complete Street in Napa”
THANK YOU, JOSH.
Our second speaker is Mr. Ainsworth who is a Senior Project Manager and Business Development Lead for the GHD Western Region with a focus on Transportation. His professional background includes City Traffic Engineer in Escondido, California; and, Director of Transportation for the City of Reno. He spent 4 years on the Rocklin City Council, one year as Mayor. He was the founder and past president of Omni-Means, with the GHD merger occurring in Ross received his Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a Master’s of Science in Transportation Engineering, from the Pennsylvania State University.
His presentation includes roundabouts, a topic Ross first embraced over 20 years ago. Since then, he has worked on projects involving roundabouts all over the state.
His presentation covers the evolution of an interchange study to a series of roundabouts and the conversion of local street access from State Route 29 leading to downtown Napa.

5. #3 Speaker Lindsey Van Parys| GHD “Roadway Repurposing
through Roundabouts”
THANK YOU Mr. Ainsworth.
Our next speaker is Mrs. Lindsey Van Parys, a registered Civil Engineer in the States of California and Florida. She is a Qualified Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) Developer (QSD) and SWPPP Practitioner (QSP). Also, she has a certificate from Northwestern University Center for Public Safety in Traffic Collision Investigation. Mrs. Van Parys has been delivering transportation projects since She is an Associate at GHD where she has worked since 2012, and Project Manager who oversees daily project operations and the North American Service Line Leader for Transportation. Her background includes designing roundabouts, complete streets/streetscapes, multi-use trails, roadway and highway improvements, and other various types of projects, from the conceptual stage through construction. Through her grant writing work she has succeeded in obtaining funding from Active Transportation Program, Highway Safety Improvement Project, and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality sources.
She will be walking us through a project that is implementing a road diet through the installation of 5 roundabouts along three connected roadway corridors. The roundabout road diet is converting the streets from a vehicle centric place to a multimodal corridor meant to encourage alternative modes of transportation.

6. #4 Speaker Gabriel Ho| City of San Francisco
“Speed Humps on Steep Roadways”
Thank you Lindsey!
Our next speaker is Mr. Gabriel Ho is a complete streets designer at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, or SFMTA. Through the lenses of Vision Zero, community empowerment, and human-oriented mobility, his work serves to usher San Francisco into a new era of safe and sustainable transportation options for all. His projects range from major corridor streetscape redesigns, to quick-build protected bikeways and road diets, to residential traffic calming.
He will present information about how San Francisco conducted a study on speed humps installed on steeper roadway grades due to a dearth of research on the topic, and based on the study, the SFMTA modified its traffic calming policy to allow speed humps on grades up to 13% to better serve San Francisco communities located on hilly terrain.

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Thank you Gabe!
Our session is now open for questions.
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