2023-02-02 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, NOTE Now Google Meets: https://meet.google.com/myr-xmnd-iob

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

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!!
• DNV Council workshop on East 29th Bikeway - Mon, Feb 6th - link -

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

Midtown Connector Project (Brandon - CNV)

• Introduction of Project & Questions

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 at 6:45 PM.

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.

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

• construction will begin in 2023 and complete in 2023 depending on findings of First Nations assessment

Upper Levels Greenway

• lots of interest in the route along 25th

4th and Chesterfield

• in line to get a bike light but no timeline

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.
• Budget Deferrals
  • Basically all cycling related infrastructure on the current roadmap is proposed to be deferred out 5 years
  • Great energy at the workshop on Jan 29 council chambers from the audience - many of the "North Shore Civic Influencers"
  • Herman Mah, Jim Hanson, Catherine Pope, and Jordan Back all speaking in favour of not deferring the Active Transportation priorities: sidewalks & mobility lanes
  • No one from HUB in attendance unfortunately - please consider attending in person or virtually in future - beers after at Queens Cross pub often.

• East 29th
  • Letter sent to staff by Do

• Upper Lynn Valley Rd
  • Mtn. Hwy to Peters Road (Phase 1) - mostly built
  • impressively brine striped in recent cold weather - specialty equipment

• 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.

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/Paul/Heather

• let us know if there is something we should communicate about - blocked bike lanes, new infrastructure, etc.
• Twitter (Rueben)
  • Helped get word out about proposed 29th Street bike lane removal (DNV) and 2023-2027 draft budget proposal to defer bike lane construction (DNV)
  • Promoting HUB events (Go by Bike week Feb 6-12)
  • Documenting new and existing bike lanes (and related infrastructure). In January, posted photos of:
    • New Lynn Creek Bridge
    • Lynn Valley Bike Lane (Phase 1, Mtn Hwy to Peters Rd)
    • Esplanade Bike Lane construction

Schools - Paul Janzen

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