Walking in Mesa is difficult. There's very little shade and all the walkways are dangerously close to high speed, distracted traffic. This makes it especially difficult to walk around with children. Some road barriers between the sidewalk would help make pedestrian thoroughfares safer. You could use trees and do both at the same time!

They need more pedistrian and bike friendly ways of getting to Main street. There needs to be protected bike lanes down main street on schools with elementary and junior high and on the canals.

We live in north mesa off gilbert and mckellips. We would love to spend more time in DT Mesa in the evenings walking around and visiting the shops and restaurants. We like to have a couple drinks while doing so and would like an alternative way to get to DT and back home. Currently there are no 'easy' or reliable ways apart from Uber or Lyft. Tempe has their neighborhood 'Dash' bus that is free and you can jump on and off at your locations. It would be great to see something like this in mesa with a few lines going into and back out of mesa on the weekends. Have it start at 3:00 pm and go until midnight. Even if it just gets us closer to the light rail stops on gilbert and main I would be happy!

Designing low-stress, bike-friendly corridors leading to downtown will provide a lot of benefits to people, business, and parking supply. Let's be sure to assess the traffic signal design for recognizing people on foot or bikes so that the signals don't cause delays for the types of access that benefit everyone's health, noise pollution, and parking supply. Currently, signals either ignore or poorly serve people on foot or bike.

Lets have pricing dictated by demand the higher the demand the higher the price. The higher the price the more likely there is a parking space available.

If people want parking they will pay for it. Developers are far more likely to know the right amount of parking. San Diego Buffalo have essentially eliminated the parking requirements and they have seen great results. Tempe Culdesac has shown that you can have a affordable desirable community. Not everyone has a car nor needs a car. I don't want to be like Gilbert which has no mass transit and the only way to get in or out is by car so all of the productive places are being swallowed up by parking. Urban places and suburban places are different and should be treated as such.

There is an old garage on Main & Hibbert. Why not repurpose that building?

I'm a big fan of all of these ideas, but particularly: Buffered bike lanes Curb extensions High visibility crosswalks Active spaces Plus any sort of way these elements (or others) could be incorporated or integrated with public art.

Culdesac partnership offers a vested partner in AV technology. Low-speed AV bus circulator technology has been deployed in some places for years now. What are the findings and is this an appropriate project to assess this niche transit service: AV circulator bus?

All of these possible solutions have their place, project by project, within Downtown Mesa. I would recommend prioritizing improving key corridors that promote low-stress bike access to the Downtown and streetscape details that improve the safety and comfort of pedestrians (especially curb extensions that reduce the exposure between people walking and drivers). Raised crosswalks would be nice to add where feasible. Where green infrastructure is added, so should be the opportunity to improve the tree canopy for ample shade. All crosswalks should have their lighting assessed (both for brightness and light angles to avoid silhouettes). If there's an opportunity to evaluate the design standards for the arcade shading to be brought up to contemporary standards, that could be helpful for the facade improvement program. Lastly, I suspect there will be careful evaluation of optimal curb use (loading, parking, mobility).