 So, we're here on North Manuski Avenue today. We are wrapping up a corridor study for all of Manuski Avenue. It starts at Riverside and the study goes all the way down to Howard Street. The recommendations and the final outcome of the study is really developing an implementation plan for how to improve transportation for everyone along this corridor. So right now we're planning to go to City Council next week on February 18th to present that draft plan. And for the North Manuski section, what we're looking at is to provide bike lanes continuously throughout, well really throughout the entire corridor. On North Manuski what that will mean is considering parking removal along the east side, retaining all the parking on the west side. And that frees up the space so that we can add the bike lanes on a shorter timeline. We have some intersection improvements along the way as well. And the implementation plan that we're working on identifies our timeline to try to make all these changes as well. So our first step for North Manuski is to start with the parking management plan and really help us understand how to manage the parking that we do have on the street and think about opportunities to explore shared parking arrangements off street. What are parking strategies to help us mitigate any of the parking loss that this corridor may see? And so we would complete that study before we come in and make any of the on the ground changes or before we just jump in and remove parking. Several years ago we approved a plan for making Burlington a world-class city for walking and biking called Plan BTV Walk Bike and in that study we identified the Manuski corridor as being a crucial linkage or a crucial element of that network that we want to build out as a city recognizing that it's really one of the only streets that goes from north to south through downtown touching both the north end downtown and the south end and creating a lot of opportunities for connection to really build out that network. Part of the reason why we focused on streets like this and North Avenue before it were that they had a very high crash rates. So for instance at the main and Manuski intersection we've seen 93 crashes in a five-year period so we really are trying to address the safety concerns that we're seeing born out in the data and make physical changes to the roadway to make them these roads safer. So in this section of North Manuski right now there is parking on both sides and we have just shared lane markings for bicyclists on the roadway and throughout the study one thing that we've heard is that there is a strong desire to keep as much parking as we can but also improve the bike facilities and provide more dedicated and clear space for people biking on the roadway. And so the alternative that we're really considering now is in the near term to at least provide standard bike lanes in both directions and to do that we will be removing parking on the east side. We chose that side because it generally has less on-street parking right now so we're able to reserve more on-street parking by keeping it on the west side. You know through this process we've been trying to balance some of those competing needs and one of the things that we did consider in terms of parking removal that has sort of since been changed as sort of in recognition of that feedback is that the section from North Street to Decatur so basically the section between the African market and the Sushi spot, Shinjuku station up to the the taco shop at Decatur and Union as well as the food shelf that section of the of the street will not undergo parking removal. We had initially considered making that section two-way to increase increase flow and connectivity there for vehicle traffic but we decided that the parking and preserving the parking there was more valuable so we decided to keep the parking in that block so we've tried to change and adjust the plans because that area you know has we've you know heard some of those concerns and wanted to add that back in. We are still able to maintain the bike lane going in both directions just because of how wide the street is at that at that area but we aren't going to be going two-way for vehicular traffic there so that was a change from what was initially at least proposed to now in light of some of the feedback we received. And again we're going to do a parking management plan as our very first step to make sure that whatever parking remains on street can be managed in a way that works well for adjacent businesses, for residents, for loading spaces, for transit. There's a lot of need for this on-street parking. We're also going to look though beyond North Winooski itself look at the parking on the adjacent side streets look within a whole one block radius look at the off-street parking options and try to come up with solutions to improve parking in the area beyond North Winooski itself so that we can provide better options for any parking that may be removed from the street. In addition to that it's also important that we focus on getting people alternatives to driving because we are in climate crisis we know this is a city we have laid out a vision in the net zero roadmap where we are going to be aggressively trying to create alternatives to driving as a city because we recognize that we need to do more to build on the work that's already taken place to provide people with these alternatives because in Vermont 50% of greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector and if we look at Burlington specifically what we've seen is that even though we've targeted reductions in carbon specific to the transportation sector, vehicle miles traveled have only continued to rise so not only are we not making progress we're actually falling behind where we wanted to be in terms of those climate goals so I think that there's a sort of a broader picture as well in terms of making sure that we are a improving safety and helping everybody to get around safer but then be also making sure that we are putting this in the broader context of the climate crisis in which we find ourselves and taking actual steps to address that towards you know getting more people walking and biking and using transit as opposed to driving single occupancy vehicles. So we are at the intersection of Winooski Avenue Union and Decatur Street right now. This is one of the intersections where we have a concept for improvements and we evaluated a couple different options but our recommendations here are for a mini roundabout and so basically that will be a mountable round island in the middle of the intersection with some channelizers leading into the intersection in this footprint of a traditional roundabout design and so the intent is to slow vehicles down before they enter the intersection remove the stop signs and have it function like a traditional roundabout but the advantages of a mini are that the island in the middle is fully mountable so larger vehicles can just drive right over it if they need to and it can fit in a much smaller footprint. So in addition to this intersection we have a mini roundabout proposed for North Street as well so the intersection of North Street and North Winooski we can also test out a mini roundabout and our thoughts right now since mini roundabouts would be very new for Burlington we'd like to either pilot or do a demonstration for these this year and adjust the the plans if we need adjust the designs and if they work out well build those next year. A lot of this work is being done being tested or designed this year all this is in advance of full corridor repaving in 2022 so we're fortunate that we can kind of use some of these smaller projects as a bit of a testing ground both for the project design and for the community to test out some of these new ideas before it becomes permanent with a repaving project. So we are wrapping up the transportation study itself and getting ready to advance this for consideration by city council and what we're asking council is to effectively authorize the Department of Public Works to implement all of these changes that we've discussed and that meeting will be on February 18th. Council meetings are open to the public we encourage everyone who has an interest in this project whether you're supportive of the concept or have some concerns please either come to the meeting speak during public forum or reach out to your counselors in advance of the meeting so they can consider your input before making their final decision. The project plans and the concepts are all available on the project website we're doing this project with funding and leadership from the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission and so on the CCRPC website is where you'll find all of the project information including the concept plans and the implementation timeline. So for anyone who's interested please check those resources out online or contact your counselors or come to the meeting next week.