Meeting Summary: March 7, 2013: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:34, 8 March 2013

Attendance & Agenda

Attendance: Kathy, Nelson, Ann, Bill, Winifred, Antje, Fiona, Helen, Dianne and Yoko

Education & Outreach

Sea to Sky cycling project update
- map of cycling hazards will be put on a website with real time updates possible - now in beta stage
- suggest contact Grand Fondo organizers
- to be finished in 3 weeks
- can access from Flickr and Twitter
- need volunteers to spread the word about website
- $116,00 estimated cost to fix hazards
- presented at Velo City
- MoT agrees with hazards are dangerous
- database to be unploaded to SFU

HUB delegation at DNV council meeting Feb 18, recap (Antje)
- Antje presented
- question about bike to school and training
- Antje followed up with a letter about cycling education in schools
- City pays HUB to provide education to schools

HUB delegation at West Van council meeting May 6 (Peter)
- plan to have Heather, Peter and Donna do a dry run at the next meeting
- Peter to contact WV Chamber of Commerce (lee Gabriel) to ask to present to them
City Cycling book for councils (Antje/Jay)
- 4 to West Van, 3 to City and 4 to DNV
Bike to School on the North Shore
- Transportation demand management
- Use Pro D to distribute info
- start at elementary schools
- get teachers in schools that are bike riders
- some schools takes kids for one-week trips
- exclusion zones is an idea
- use school newsletters to announce bike to school days
- Antje will talk to Steph to see if there have been similar intiatives
- send email to principals, mention fitness advantage of cycling
Connect with other NS groups?
- E.g. Cool North Shore, North Van Urban Forum
North Shore bike map distribution
- copies have been printed – Antje will bring some to the next meeting

Draft letter to West Van council concerning review of Srategic Transportation Plan
- Peter to send this evening and copy Yahoo group
- Peter and a few others on the Working group will not be available so Peter wiil send a message encouraging others to go

  to the Council Special Meeting of the Whole at 1630 on 11 March

Infrastructure

Second Narrows bridge update (Fiona)
- meeting with manager of south coast region and operations manager and four cyclists
- funding by end of March 20 million for widening the sidewalks and suicide barriers
- designs to be tendered by end of March
- width 2.5 m will and will do one side at a time
- new railings will be higher 3m vertical 5" between vertical bars
- working on changing Dollarton exit
- announcement before election?
Mountain Highway design in Lower Lynn (Antje)
- sent letter asking for separated bike lane

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 '''Education & Outreach'''
 * Sea to Sky cycling project update
-** map of cycling hazards will put on a website with real time updates possible - now in beta
+** map of cycling hazards will be put on a website with real time updates possible - now in beta stage
 ** suggest contact Grand Fondo organizers
 ** to be finished in 3 weeks
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 * HUB delegation at West Van council meeting May 6 (Peter)
+** plan to have Heather, Peter and Donna do a dry run at the next meeting
-**
+** Peter to contact WV Chamber of Commerce (lee Gabriel) to ask to present to them
 * City Cycling book for councils (Antje/Jay)
 ** 4 to West Van, 3 to City and 4 to DNV
@@ Line 32: / Line 33: @@
 ** some schools takes kids for one-week trips
 ** exclusion zones is an idea
-** use school newsletters for bike to school da
+** use school newsletters to announce bike to school days
-** Antje will talk to Steph to see if there have been similare intiatives
+** Antje will talk to Steph to see if there have been similar intiatives
 ** send email to principals, mention fitness advantage of cycling
 * Connect with other NS groups?
 ** E.g. Cool North Shore, North Van Urban Forum
 * North Shore bike map distribution
-** copies have been printed – antje will bring some to the next meeting
+** copies have been printed – Antje will bring some to the next meeting
-* draft letter to West Van council concerning review of STP
+* Draft letter to West Van council concerning review of Srategic Transportation Plan
+** Peter to send this evening and copy Yahoo group
+** Peter and a few others on the Working group will not be available so Peter wiil send a message encouraging others to go
+   to the Council Special Meeting of the Whole at 1630 on 11 March
 '''Infrastructure'''
-* Sea-to-Sky Highway (Ann & SFU)
 * Second Narrows bridge update (Fiona)
-** meeting with manager of south coast region and operations manager a four cyclists
+** meeting with manager of south coast region and operations manager and four cyclists
-**funding by end of March 20 million for widening
+**funding by end of March 20 million for widening the sidewalks and suicide barriers
-** designs tendered by end of March
+** designs to be tendered by end of March
-** width 2.5 m will do one side at a time
+** width 2.5 m will and will do one side at a time
-** new railings will be higher 3m vertical 5" between veertical bars
+** new railings will be higher 3m vertical 5" between vertical bars
 ** working on changing Dollarton exit
 ** announcement before election?
 * Mountain Highway design in Lower Lynn (Antje)
 ** sent letter asking for separated bike lane
-* Cycling during construction of new Low Level Road (Heather)
-* Park Royal
-** HUB Surrey/White Rock has used Living Streets assessment form for mall
-* Government Road on Bowen Island (Antje, from Richard)
-'''Other Business'''
-* Events Coordinator position (Antje)
-* Survey for Provincial election candidates on the North Shore (do we want to send out a survey to candidates as we did for the muni election? - heather in absentia)

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