2023-01-05 Summary

HUB North Shore Committee regular meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month at 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Everybody is welcome.

In-person at the North Vancouver City Library (14th/Lonsdale) in the Don Preston Boardroom (2nd floor).

Or Online, NOTE Now Google Meets: https://meet.google.com/myr-xmnd-iob

or by Phone: +1 587-977-8033‬ PIN: ‪290 663 905‬#

General

• Attendees-Paul Janzen(Chair),David Liou, Alex Annejohn,Larry Wilson,Paul Stott,Rueben Schultz,Dan Mackie,Jonathan Mak (HUB Central),Peter Scholefield,Fiona Walsh,Nadia Fourik, Colin White,Duncan Wilcock 8 present,7 online
• Agenda additions
• Introductions

• New Business:
  • Rueben is looking for images illustrating any and all infrastructure improvements so that they will be broadcast via social media. Please forward via email to ruebenjschulz@gmail.com
  • Fiona would like a review of the intersection at Bewicke/Keith road/Marine Drive for possible improvements. Paul J.to present images.''
  • Committee was asked if there were any issues with snow clearing after our recent storm. The general consensus was that it was well provided for throughout the 3 municipalities.
  • Duncan asked for feedback concerning the feasibility of promoting safe school travel modelled after an initiative from the Netherlands. The project can be viewed at these links:'
    • https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7006877891145682944/
    • https://stintum.com
  • Meeting was adjourned at 7:50 p.m.

Public Input/Consultations

• Public input is critical when Council and Staff make trade-offs and decisions. Please make sure your voice is heard!!
• none?

New Municipal Councils

• Liaisons to connect with new councillors
  • Introduction of HUB
  • listen to their thoughts/concerns/ideas
  • Share our priorities
• Delegations to councils in New Year
  • Book soon to get in queue
  • Key messages?
    • 'Noted there is one new councillor at CNV-Shervin Shahriari, Incumbents-Tony Valente,Don Bell,Angela Girard,Jessica McIlroy,Holly Back. Mayor(incumbent) is Linda Buchanan.

Goals & Objectives

• Add Phase 2 top priority Bikeways - current Gaps Map
  • Liaisons to select a one or two for their municipality
• Communications ideas??
• Recruiting ideas??
• Ensure Cycling Priorities are in DWV's Transportation Strategy

• Chair's note: It was reiterated from HUB North Shore's Wiki page that these are the top 3 infrastructure goals for 2023:
  • Get the municipalities to complete 3 Safe and attractive Bikeways as a 1st step in building a full network.
    • Maine to Marine - Dundarave to Maplewood
    • Creek to Peak - 2nd Narrows (Lynn Creek) to Lynn Valley TC (and eventually to top of Mtn Hwy)
    • Harbour to Headwaters - Lower Lonsdale to Lynn Valley TC (and eventually to Headwaters park)

3 Priority bike routes

City of North Vancouver - Nadia/Sophia

CNV Key Contacts & Staff Meetings

• Brandon Green will be presenting information regarding the Midtown Project to this committee at the February 2nd meeting.
  • Nadia notes 13th Street is a potential route for Midtown.

Summary of current/upcoming CNV projects - this year & beyond

St. Andrew’s

• We submitted a letter to Council regarding concerns about cyclist safety and the residents' new proposal for St. Andrew's. Council meeting on December 5th if anyone would like to speak in favour of the bike lane and traffic slowing measures.https://wiki.bikehub.ca/images/9/96/CNV_St._AndrewsSafetyImprovements_Design_Feedback_12012022.pdf
  • ''Fiona attended council meeting December 5,2022''.

Cotton/Main WB

• City engineers have requested a markup of our suggestions. They believe there is insufficient space between the hydro poles and existing landscaping.

Esplanade

• cycling and pedestrian infrastructure should be finished by end of year; green paint may be delayed until spring
• still waiting for temporary push button at 3rd and Forbes

Casano-Loutet Overpass

• new legislation requires any project that touches provincial land to have First Nations consultation
• if all goes well, construction will begin in 2023 and complete in 2023

Upper Levels Greenway

• lots of interest in the route along 25th; will need spurs to other amenities like schools
• discussions underway with MOTI to ensure they are on board with the proposed changes
• need to clarify how this will cross the highway on/off ramps.

4th and Chesterfield

• in line to get a bike light but no timeline

Midtown

• connects West 1st bike lane to Casano-Loutet/route not yet decided

Forbes

• larger changes are intended at this intersection but dependent on discussions with the Squamish Nation

Integrated Transportation Committee - Dana & Jonathan

• May meeting postponed to end of month (no updates)

District of North Vancouver - Fred/Don

• Meeting with Staff - currently exchanging emails on various projects.
• Upper Lynn Valley Rd
  • Mtn. Hwy to Peters Road (Phase 1) - mostly built

• Orwell
  • They paved the muddy, gravel portion between Rupert and Crown that turns into a lake when it rains and that we have been complaining about for years!! Hurray!

• Hunter Street Bridge
  • Finishing up the bridge and ramps, should be open early in the New Year

District of West Vancouver - Paul/Peter/Mike

19 December meeting with Mayor Sager

• Paul and Peter met with the mayor for just over one hour.
• The principal reason he wanted to meet with us was to update us on his pre-election proposal to develop a multi-use pathway on the CN railbed between Horseshoe Bay and Whistler.
• He has made contact with a number of people who have supported his proposal, including a company that would like to sponsor the initiative.
• He asked for the support of HUB and in turn said he would support our goals.
• We suggested that because the proposal extends beyond the District's boundary, it would be good to get the support of the BC Cycling Coalition.
• Paul had prepared a briefing note which he gave to the mayor and we used it as a basis to inform him on some of the previous plans to improve active transportation in the District. This included the 2010 West Vancouver Strategic Transporation Plan, and its follow-up Technical Implementation Committee, the 2018 OCP, TransLink's recently released Transport 2050 with its 10-Year Priorities, and the ongoing development of a District mobility plan.
• We also informed him of our major bike infrastructure priorities for the District, including North Shore HUB's goal of a Marine to Main route and a dedicated route for cyclists between Ambleside and the Welch Street Bridge.
  • Peter notes; Mayor Mark Sager is newly elected, Councillors-Linda Watt,Scott Snider,Christine Cassidy(new this term) + Peter Lambur,Sharon Thompson,Gambiola Nora (Incumbents).

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Ministry of Transportation & Infrastructure- Don/Mike

• Phibbs Exchange
  • Phase 1 just started (complete by May-2023?)
    • Detours with signage in place. The connection between Orwell and south side of main is a long ugly detour via Mtn Highway, or ride with traffic on the off-ramp. They will try to improve this in month or so if they can widen the off-ramp once they move some utilities.
  • Phase 2 will start after Phase 1 and finish in late 2024. Detours should be much better for this phase.

Communications & Outreach - Rueben/Antje/Paul/Heather

• let us know if there is something we should communicate about - blocked bike lanes, new infrastructure, etc.
• Twitter
  • Rueben is documenting Esplanade construction and has created a list of other locations for regular posting of infrastructure on Twitter
• Misc
  • Duncan has an initiative with SD44 he would like to share FYI, also any already involved. Not necessarily a HUB initiative.

Schools - Paul Janzen

• No updates for the school programs currently. Instruction recommences mid March.