POR 2016 #295 · Agenda item attachment · Nov 7 2016

City of Cambridge O-2 ORIGINAL ORDER IN CITY COUNCIL November 7, 2016 MAYOR SIMMONS WHEREAS: On October 17, 2016, the City Council passed a series of policy orders directing the City Manager to implement measures meant to make our streets safer for bicyclists, particularly in light of the two bicycling fatalities that have occurred in Cambridge this year; and WHEREAS: This meeting included a late policy order asking that the City Manager to work with the appropriate City personnel to synthesize these various policy orders into “an over- arching work plan” for the appropriate City departments to implement; and WHEREAS: It is critical that the people of Cambridge have a clear sense of how this work is progressing over the coming days, weeks, and months, and it is also critical that the City establish a clear timeline and set of expectations for how this work can and should progress; now therefore be it ORDERED: That the City Council formally go on record in urging the City Manager to establish a deadline of November 1, 2017 for fully implementing the various street improvements and safety measures for increasing bicycle safety that were passed during the October 17 meeting; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to update the City Council no later than December 12, 2016 on a timeline for implementing the special informational webpage called for in Policy Order #263 at the October 17, 2016 City Council meeting.