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Please don’t connect Cascade to Fowler

Please consider not connecting Cascade St to Fowler. Cascade St is a small neighborhood street. It’s not designed to be a feeder to a major cross town thoroughfare. The amount of traffic flowing on Fowler can access the neighborhoods through the other main streets. Cascade is too small of a street and there is no need for direct neighborhood access from a major street like Fowler.

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Buses and Shared Use Paths Move More People

Given the mechanics of how travel demand models (TDM) work it seems inevitable that three car lanes will not provide sufficient capacity to avoid future congestion. Paradoxically, this means we should have fewer lanes for cars.According to Streetmix, for a same 80' right of way, a section with 13' shared use paths and two bus rapid transit lanes provides capacity for 83,500 people per hour, compared to the capacity of a road like North 19th Ave with five car lanes (and weird, intermittent shared use paths) that only provide capacity for 36,000 people per hour.If the TDM says we need…

High Traffic Streets and Safe Backyards Don't Mix

As a Bozeman resident impacted by the upcoming Fowler Avenue Connection Project, I am grateful for the opportunity to share my thoughts regarding the project’s potential impacts. I hope that the city and design team at Sanderson Stewart will use the perspectives of the neighborhoods surrounding the project to balance the needs of a growing community with the safety and security of local residents.My family and I moved to the Bozeman area from eastern Montana in 1990, and of course the Bozeman of today would have been unrecognizable to us then. We purchased a home in Bozeman in 2014 on…