2023-01-05 Agenda

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, Zoom conference call: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81789523337?pwd=ZitLVHVoRmpQVFh3YjdpWi8wNVNTQT09

By phone: call 778-907-2071, Meeting ID: 81789523337, Passcode: 354518
One tap mobile: +17789072071,,81789523337#,,,,*354518#

General

• Agenda additions
• Introductions

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?

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

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.

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

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

ITC - 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

Proposal to establish 4 slow-street bike loops south of Hwy 1 and east of 28th Street

• In response to our proposal Jenn Moller, DWV director of the Engineering Division, sees that bike loops can be incorporated into expansion of the 30 km/hour programming that is being planned for 4 zones. She also said that: "the 30 km/hour vision zero initiative status doesn’t preclude us from moving ahead with the shared streets"
• In her email she posed the following questions to us which would be good to discuss before our next meeting with her:
  • "I guess one question I would have for HUB is around the routing, would you have concerns with a program where we are relying on signage to support the program?"
  • "What would delivery of a successful stand-alone shared streets initiative look like to you?"
  • "Is the intention to just provide wayfinding and inform the public that these loops exist? Or is Hub envisioning that some sort of physical work is to be done to implement these loops?"
• What we envision eventually are 4-5 slow or shared street loops with adequate directional signage at critical intersections along each route and a few strategic traffic calming features.
• Due to funding constraints and possible resistance by Council, it may be more practical or desirable to proceed with implementation through a number of phases.
• One question that needs to be considered is: What about the fact that some of the sections of the proposed bike loops are not part of the existing marked bike network?
• Another question to consider is whether or not we propose to add a 5th loop north of Hwy 1 that would incorporate the Hugo Ray Connector and plans this next year to build a connecting bike path between the Hugo Ray Connector and Taylor Way/Westcot Road?
• Joe Weiler, who has expressed an interest in helping with this project, has contacted two councillors who have agreed to meet with us. We have decided that we should first meet with Jenn Moller before meeting with councillors. Joe has been away this month, so we plan to meet soon with him to discuss our next meeting with Jenn Moller and how we respond to her questions on bike loops.

31st & Westmount bike and pedestrian improvements

• Construction is continuing on phase 1 of this project with phase 2 expected to begin in March 2023.
• Mike Cormack has been monitoring the project and has expressed some concern about the narrow gap between the sidewalk curb and speed humps that have been installed on Westmount Road - https://wiki.bikehub.ca/images/f/f9/2022-11-27_Westmount_Road_speed_hump.jpg

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

Schools - Paul Janzen

• Here is a summary of HUB's in school Educational programs activity for 2022:

Students Schools Hours

Metro Vancouver 15,550 152 51,732

Other BC 5,665 55 14,162

Total 21,215 207 65,894

These programs consist of Learn to Ride (grades 4/5) and Ride the Road (grades 5/6) together referred to as “Bike to School"

Programs have expanded to Vancouver Island and the Okanagan as shown in “Other BC”.

Expectation is for continued growth in 2023 with expansion to other areas of BC. To that end we have hired a grades 4/5 Everyone Rides Program Manager - Lorraine Smith.

NOTE: starting in January we will be moving our online meetings to Google meet. Details will be in meeting notices.