The lack of walkability in Stillwater is a huge problem. It is especially so between home and work or school for those of us who live is outlying areas, but this is also the case in many neighborhoods closer to campus. Sidewalks are inconsistent, non-existent, or in very poor repair.

Our roads are awful. Stillwater should be an Image Maker, not an image breaker

Have bike lanes for main roads . People go more places than campus. Take down the sign that says Stillwater is a bike friendly place because it is not.

Stillwater has definitely made progress in becoming more bike friendly, and I would love for the city to continue improving in this area. It would be great if we could complete the Kameoka trail!

I have lived in other cities (especially Madison, WI) that had infrastructure and cultural norms in place that made walking and biking (and riding buses) a common practice for many people, from all backgrounds. This was wonderful on many levels--it helped people be healthier, it reduced carbon emissions and other pollution, it created a sense of active community, it offered (nearly) free recreational opportunities, and it made me proud to be a citizen of those cities! But all this can only happen when the city invests appropriately in creating the infrastructure and incentives to create and support this kind of active transportation culture. There are many organizations already doing this work that we can learn from, like the Active Living Research Program at University of California-San Diego and the Active Transportation Alliance out of Chicago. We can and should learn from them, and others! Any many citizens support this and want to get involved in making a Stillwater a better place

There are many people in Stillwater with disabilities or who don't or can't drive and having reliable public transportation in all areas of the City would be a great help to them and probably reduce traffic as others could use that option for work or errands. We have a good start with the current bus system in conjunction with OSU, need to add more/expand routes and times and run the busses on weekends.

It takes longer to get across town in Stillwater than it does in a big city because they're so many stop lights and the timing on the stoplight seems to be wrong.

It would be wonderful to have dedicated bike paths linking key places in Stillwater (e.g., campus, downtown, neighborhoods, etc.). These could be used for commuting and recreation and potentially reduce traffic and parking issues.

Too much overhead in Stillwater. Need far Less administration and staff. Allocate those funds to roads and sidewalks.

A stable core infrastructure is necessary. Bring people to Stillwater to drive on embarrassing streets and roads? Not a good selling point. The bumps in the roads may not be the first impression but they will be lasting impressions. Fix the base then build new. Deal with the present now and deal with the future in the future. Don't need four lane roads to the airport, I hope we do someday. (The airport needs more parking now.)

Roadway transportation issues in Stillwater are the biggest deterrent to progress this community faces. I agree that adding more and better opportunities for pedestrian and bicycle traffic are important to overall quality of life. They should be part of a comprehensive effort to improve transportation, but they should not be concentrated on to the detriment of maintaining and improving roads in the city. The city's worst traffic chokepoints are along Perkins between McElroy and Hall of Fame. Widening or adding traffic lanes there would be ideal.

I believe that providing a wide variety of transportation options in something that would position Stillwater as a leading innovative city in the region and improve overall quality of life.

I love Stillwater. Moved here from Woodward for work. The streets are horrible.

Stop building expensive 8 or 10 foot wide sidewalks that are not utilized, I drive Western often and maybe once in a while see a person using that sidewalk. About a week ago I saw a bicyclist on Western north of McElroy riding in the roadway, not even on the bicycle super-highway! Before we 4 lane Airport Industrial, can we fix 8th street between Western and Devon? That street is presently torn up so bad it is basically one lane, one vehicle must pull off in a yard to allow the other to pass or risk vehicle damage hitting the washed out potholes. I would point out that Will Rogers Airport only has a 4 lane road going to it, I do not ever forsee the Stillwater airport having as much traffic as WRWA. I walk occasionally for exercise, I have no intention of ever walking or riding a bicycle to work or dinner or anywhere else.

When I think about traveling on roads shared with bicycles/mopeds and cars/trucks I think it's generally unsafe in a town as spread out as Stillwater. I would love to see more walking/bicycle paths and events but I just generally don't trust drivers to be aware enough to avoid an accident. We have to spend some money maintaining our streets better. Bad weather and they seem to crumble. In general the roads in Stillwater are nothing to be proud of. I always hate that knowing how many visitors we get in town regularly thanks to OSU. Can't leave a great impression.

I'm in favor of using bikes for commuting but Stillwater just isn't designed for it. We should not try and accommodate the bike users. Fix our roads, keep them brightly painted, and just accept that we live in a sometimes dense smaller town.

Stillwater shouldn’t be worried about bicycles. The only people people that bike in Stillwater are the college kids! What we really need is better drainage and to fix the rough, falling apart roads in town.

I have lived a lot of places, and while I love Stillwater, it is not bicycle or pedestrian-friendly. There are not enough bike lanes, or sidewalks in town.

I understand sidewalks and bike paths are important but our streets get much more traffic than they do. The overall condition of our streets are horrible. I'm embarrassed for the city of Stillwater when visitors come to town. There has been so little maintenance done in the past few years. Is the City broke?

A retired OSU professor (can't remember his name) several years ago completed a comprehensive plan for bike trails in Stillwater. Keith Reed of the Stillwater OSU Extension (6th and Duck) office would know the location of that plan.

The multiuse paths are nice but they need to be connected, so that more people, particularly students and those who work at the university can use them to commute or for recreation. They could also more easily connect to Downtown. The people of Stillwater do use the recreation paths heavily, just like the parks, contrary to certain opinions. Paths and outdoor recreation are attractive additions and make people's daily lives better (and healthier) , which in turn makes them want to live in Stillwater, instead of fleeing. The roads do need improvement too. Why can't we make progress on both issues?

The roads in Stillwater are terrible. There are so many roads that are so hard on the vehicles that drive on them, I'm surprised it's not more of a priority. And I don't mean the west side of town. The east side of town gets no love from Stillwater.

We want to be a first class city to go with our first class university but the rough roads and lack of bike/running lanes are the first thing visitors discover coming to Stillwater.

Biking on the west of stillwater is hard because highway 51 has NO shoulder in places! Needs to be much safer for athletes. Range road south of 6th needs a shoulder or sidewalk. North of McElroy on Duck the sidewalk is TERRIBLE.

Stillwater / Oklahoma have terrible roads. My car thanks me the minute I cross into Texas or Kansas!! Fix the roads!

I use my car a lot more since I moved to Stillwater. I used to bike, walk, and ride the bus everywhere. We can be a commute-friendly community, but it takes resources!

Some step away from cars being 90% of the way we travel around Stillwater.

Stillwater should be FAR more road bicycle friendly than it is by simple comparison to other college towns in the US. There should be FAR more development of PAVED bicycle paths (connect mid-sections and extend Kameoka Trail pavement on both ends making extended connections through neighborhoods to Yost Lake Road, etc.) and put in protected and dedicated paved bicycle paths and lanes in the cardinal four directions (N,S,E,W) of town connecting the farthest neighborhoods to town. There is more than enough gravel & dirt already. Stillwater should be Gold status by now on being a bike friendly community but as any local road bicyclist will tell you, it is not. The tourism promotions for Stillwater (Visit Stillwater) SHOULD BE constantly promoting & providing (by maps, digital, and other media) road bicycle PAVED routes and paths available to tourists and residents. When we visit other states to road bicycle their towns, their bureaus give us printed maps of PAVED bike routes & paths.

I have lived in Stillwater my whole life and have rarely seen people use the bike lanes. I do not think adding more would be a benefit to enough people to justify the expense, especially when many of our city streets are in such poor condition.

Stillwater streets are destroyed by heavy trucks on Burris,Airport, & Lakeview. Also Perkins road is not up to the traffic weight from all the large trucks plus they slow traffic.

If we want to grow or even sustain as a community we need to increase the livability quotient of Stillwater. We need to add sidewalks and bike lanes to attract younger residents. Walkers cannot even walk the perimeter of osu on sidewalks because they don’t exist half the time

The roads/streets are in terrible shape. And, in spite of what Stillwater claims, this is an awful town for bicycles! Treacherous.

Work on more bike paths and better sidewalks for active transporation, repair existing streets, esp Duck. Finish Kameoka Trail so that a family can safety use all the way through Stillwater.

Stillwater wasn't designed for growth. We need wider roads with turning lanes

Drainage is much needed but can be addressed with the resurfacing. Don’t add a bike lane it’s not needed just make sidewalk wider if you absolutely want a bike lane. Drainage and resurfacing will help with potholes. Work with ODOT not against them to help make Stillwater better.

We appreciate the city reaching out! I am proud of Stillwater and how we have grown. I am embarrassed by the online group that complains about our city. You are doing a great job. Thank you

Consideration for allowing rental scooters back in Stillwater.

1. Bike lanes are not safe without physical dividers separating bikes from cars. Some roads have bike lanes that aren't wide enough. 2. Stillwater needs a public, prioritized plan for road improvements (like Duck). Some of these roads are so narrow it is just going to take work to fix them. Do the work already. :) 3.And always, traffic light programming isn't ideal in many spots. Getting better, though!

Need to pave all roads in Stillwater, including gravel roads within the city limits. Citizens all deserve a decent road to live on

Pay attention to lower income areas. The old part of Stillwater needs work!

More lanes don't always mean less traffic congestion, usually just cars going faster. It would also help to have more general education about how stillwater expects bikes/ cars/ motorcycles/ buses to share the road ( directed at the whole population)

I would take away bike lanes in lieu of providing for better traffic flow. Stillwater will never be a walkable/bikeable community because of the weather and because nobody picks up the trash on the sidewalks or in the street. Quit wasting time talking about walking and biking

Putting a picture of a bike on a street with no bike lanes or shoulder does nothing and is ridiculous. Stillwater is so bike and walk unfriendly. Automobile drivers do not look out for either pedestrians or bicyclists. This is a suicidal town to bike in, and you need to be very traffic aware to safely walk.

I’ve loved in Stillwater most of my life and I don’t remember our roads EVER being in such disrepair. Duck, 4th and University need desperate attention.

Require construction companies that are building all the new apartments & other infrastructure in Stillwater to fund repaving/repairs on roadways when they are complete.

The streets are some of the worst I have ever experienced in a city Stillwater’s size. With as many people come to Stillwater we need to fix these streets.

The roads in Stillwater are horrible. I see the same roads being worked on year after year and all the other roads get worse and worse. The patch jobs need to stop because they are not being done well. If you want to widen the main streets that's great but there are a ton of roads that need to be redone.

Having ways people can safely walk and bike in Stillwater is great both as a health and safety

I understand the need to have decent surfaces to drive on but I am also concerned about providing for non-motorized traffic. In the past, much of the discussion has been about providing for people who bike or walk for recreation. I think as much or more attention needs to be paid to providing safe routes for people who bike or walk because they have no other option. That would include children getting to school and adults who need to get to work, shopping or services. More needs to be done to expand mass transit to poor areas on the south side of Stillwater. Residents of the Mission of Hope have to walk four blocks to the nearest bus stop and there is no bus service to Whispering Hills, a low-income apartment complex. There is also a drug testing facility that I assume provides court-ordered testing located on South Boomer that must be hard to access without a car. There are no sidewalks in that area and it is unsafe for pedestrians and bicycles. People have died.

Thank you for improving Stillwater!

Stillwater has come a long way as a bike safe community. we can do much more. Connect Kameoka trail the whole distance, off-road bike lanes along main street and Perkins etc.

As an active cyclist most citizens are unaware of the laws that protect both cars and bikes. Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t honk, yell or nearly hit me due to their frustration that I am biking on a city street. Other communities like Tulsa, OKC and Denver have hundreds of bike and walking trails available to their citizens, Stillwater had done very little to promote this activity.