Connect the Junction: Public Open House

What is main street activation program? Can you add definitions of all of these or link to where we find them in this megadoc?

You cannot have the term "Road Diet" in a question pop up without explaining that term clearly. This is never a thing I have heard of. Also what's TOD?

I used to use CCTA much more (even as a car owner) because a bus stop was two blocks from my residential home in a R2 zoned area. I know costs limited how GMTA rethought things, but the home-to-schools traffic is still obscene and wasteful, given that kids in 6-12 could be taking public transit if the lines were more similar to how they used to be, following the West-South St. corridor, and looping up Park St. As it is, we have to do gymnastics to coordinate rides to ADL since biking is unrealistic for the early opens of band, chorus and extracurriculars, with instruments and all winter long, so my child is often in cars with 1-2 kids max getting rides to school. ALL sports and ALL music is now outside of school and bus hours. Restoring sensible busing (or, doing something like the college street shuttle or city loop, where a recurring circle is made) with major pressure/outreach/incentives at the outset (ie. EWSD or city pays families like $100/year to NOT drive their kids hence add to congestion and unsafe roads) would make a tremendous difference to some of the largest unnecessary traffic flow every day.

nice sharing public spaces ideas that have impact!

I think care should be taken when considering reduction of Pearl St car throughput west of West St extension. Certainly, some adjustments can be made but a fair number of cars converge there from West St and Pearl St heading west out of the junction. Same is true in the other direction. I like the changes made several years back to go to one lane each way with a single turning lane. east of West St Ext. VT15 west of the city is one of the few roads with capacity with limited curb cuts between communities in the county.

Crescent Connect doesn't work most times to go to Maple from Park because there is no right turn lane and you get stuck behind people going straight. Plus there is no way for a large truck to turn left onto Railroad from Maple if Main St is closed (and why no left turn lane to go from Maple to Railroad? While we need to allow safety for pedestrians and bikes people still need to get from their Essex Jct home to and from work (often outside the junction) and school and through 5 corners. While I would like to see Main St closed to cars at 5 corners I see no possible way with how Maple and Railroad are currently configured.

Along Pearl Street, buildings could be taller than currently there, perhaps 5 stories, but need to be set back enough from the road to not feel crowded.

The current buildings already exceed the height that fits the historical nature and character of 5 corners. Heights should not exceed what is already there and should taper down as you move away from 5 corners.

8

7 seems like the most economically viable, but I don't see why we should restrict it. The housing is needed