Wayfinding signs can ease navigation for bicyclists and pedestrians, reduce travel times, and enhance the region's brand by reinforcing key regional destinations. When combined with secure bicycle storage and a connected network of bicycle paths and lanes, a wayfinding system can attract the estimated 60% of potential bicyclists who indicate they would cycle more often if it were safer and easier to do so.
The TAMC Board approved the Regional Bicycle and Pedestrian Wayfinding Plan on May 25, 2016. The Plan includes wayfinding sign design guidelines, identification and branding of regional bicycle and pedestrian routes, and provides a phased implementation strategy.
The Plan was developed in coordination with a Wayfinding Plan Advisory Committee composed of project stakeholders including representatives from the TAMC Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, the County of Monterey, local cities, the Monterey County Health Department, Building Healthy Communities, Ford Ord Reuse Authority, the Velo Club, Green Pedal Couriers, Fort Ord RecreationTrails Friends, Pebble Beach Company, and Monterey-Salinas Transit.
The Executive Summary of the Wayfinding Plan (attached) outlines goals, development of wayfinding signage, advisory committee and community involvement, and the regional biclcye and pedestrian routes to be signed. The Wayfinding Sign Design and Implementation Strategy (attached) includes the final sign design and outlines a phased implementation approach.
Staff is requesting Committee members provide input on the routes identified as high-priority as well as on the location of signs, including at key decisions points and destinations.