Highway 42 – What is more important, accommodating regional traffic and higher travel speeds or balancing traffic flow with competing placemaking and people oriented design which require slower traffic speeds?  Why?

• Lower speeds on Hwy. 42.
• Bike paths or zones.
• Sidewalk or trail on Hwy. 42.
• Hwy.42 seems to serve as a bypass now, allowing those “just passing through to avoid the pedestrian areas.  Unless there is a major road to replace Hwy. 42 (nearby), this still seems like its most useful function, without it, would there be more auto traffic on Main?
• Hwy. 42 south of South Boulder Road should not become US 287 between Arapahoe and South Boulder Road.
• A Louisville By-pass is not good for Louisville.
• If you slow people down as they pass thru Louisville, they are more inclined to stop and buy something.
• 45 MPH prevails on existing Hwy. 42 thru Louisville and Lafayette.  For the foreseeable future that should be adequate, but right of way should include provision of easement for 4 lanes.
• Balancing traffic flow with competing place making and people oriented design.  Louisville is a great City.  Let’s keep fast moving cars out of equation.
• Through traffic can choose 287 or 36.

Highway 42 – The corridor, its context, and function changes as you travel from north to south…What are the key functions or goals that the 42 corridor needs to serve and how are they different throughout the corridor?

• Hwy. 42 is very ugly between South Boulder and Pine St., but there has to be something in between a 6 lane highway and another Main St.  I think it could be a 3 lane and still have smaller businesses and even mixed use around it.  Also need to consider what Hwy. 42 looks like just north of S. Boulder and just south of Louisville.  Could Louisville become a 42 bottleneck?
• Access to downtown Louisville.
• Needs to serve future functions – vision –.
• Speed people up north of south boulder road and south of pine (no retail, less people).  slow them down in between (future retail and higher density).
• No matter how this area develops, there will be a much greater population density.  Unless a vehicle underpass is included lack of emergency vehicle service east of the tracks will be a problem.
• Don’t know

Rail Road Underpass – General thoughts on design considerations?

• I think South Street is too far north of existing Main Street and Front Street businesses to be of much use.
• Pleasant (safe) place to walk with art/garden/or other.
• Plenty of space so it is not dark or dirty.
• Plan for bicycles as well as people walking.
• Slow traffic should be a connection between downtown and regional trails (i.e. coal creek trail)
• I like the idea, but it might be hard to justify the cost.  The underpass under Broadway in boulder gets lots of foot traffic, but that’s a college campus – how much foot traffic could Louisville reasonably expect, before light rail comes and after?

Project Wide – Are we missing any groups or people in this process?

• Who will walk on this road – where going, and what businesses will move in?
• Ask citizens where they would be walking.
• Focus on making South Boulder Road and Hwy. 42 intersection feel safe.  It’s a barrier that bikes and peds will not tackle.
• We as a society are getting older – plan on senior housing and senior amenities

Project Wide – How best can we attract more people or make the outreach better

• Website and sound media
• Food
• Gotta come up with a better name
• Online survey – narrative
• Key stakeholder interviews – particularly potential business owners