Special Bd. of Aldermen — 02/27/2017 Page 7
Alderman Lopez
Is your company looking at any other type of vehicles?
Ms. Xie
Vehicles?
Alderman Lopez
There is a surprising demand for kayaks downtown. No one is renting them out.
Ms. Xie
| will let our co-founder know, it might be a good business plan.
Chairman Dowd
So if you rent kayaks do people throw them out of the river?
Julie Chizmas, Transportation Planner
And | just wanted to take a minute, | am going to take the mouse now just to show you a few examples of what
we envision parking will look like because that is a common question that we have. A little photo shopping
here, but | went around Nashua and looked at different locations and this is typically, up here is the furniture
zone along Main Street and that is where we will be encouraging and educating people to safely park their
bikes. So out of the pedestrian way, not blocking any activity that is normally going on on the sidewalk, you
know, we have furniture zones, we’ve got up here against the fence that marks off outdoor dining. This is the
trail down to the Nashua River Rail Trail so not quite wide enough for a car but perfect for bikes to park. At the
Nashua Library there happened to be some bikes there when | was there that day so | thought “hey that would
be great just to pop a VeoRide Bike right next to it’. So | mean we have bikes out on the sidewalks, we have
them in public places this is just another bike joining other bikes out there.
And then the other thing that | wanted to touch on quickly because | know we have short time. We are actively
working with the Department of Public Works to get some bike lanes striped out and about in Nashua. So here
is amap, it is a little tough to read and | am sorry, but the green lines here where we actually do have striped
bike lanes, we also have just a few segments that are signed but not actually striped. So they are signed as
bike lanes and they have wide shoulders, but they don’t have the icons in the pavement that show it is a bike
lane. And the red lines are where we are working with DPW to have bike lanes put in. They are actively
working on this, they want to make sure it is done safely and in accordance with sound engineering practices
and all the standards that go with that. But the goal here is the blue lines that you see are existing trails, so if
you were to take a bike, you could come up there or the Nashua River Rail Trail, go up country side come all
the way along West Hollis, hit the trails in the Mine Falls Park and be downtown.
And that is kind of the goal of all of these little trails that we’ve done so we have one from Nashua North High
School along Cheyenne Drive, a nice quiet not real busy traffic-wise road that would connect to the park and
get you into the system and get you downtown. And just for a few close up images of what that might look like
again | did go out and take some photos and so here is where | said that we actually have bike lanes on West
Hollis Street and you can see there are no markings in the pavement but it is a bike lane and then some
sections where we don’t have bike lanes yet but we’ve got some nice wide shoulders that was some great
forethought by DPW when they re-did this road and gave us some nice wide shoulders for future planning.
And again, Countryside, we think we can accommodate bike lanes and then Main Street. Main Street will be a
