Meeting Summary: May 2, 2013

Attendance & Agenda

• Attendance: Peter, Antje, Heather D, Heather H, Nelson, Paul, Erin, Dianne, Mary Ellen, Yok-Leng
• Welcome new members and guests
• Additional agenda items

Announcements & Other Business

• HUB updates (Heather Harvey)
  • wikis for rest of committees will soon be avaialbal on the HUB website, want to migrate ours in its current form to HUB server - talk to Jay to get it migrated to HUB
  • talked to Paul from TravelSmart - could we join them at MEC bikefest on 8-9 June - Yes, Mary Ellen will be contact person - Erin and Nelson will participate
  • HUB HQ is busy planning for BTWW scheduled for the week of 27 May -2 June with a station at the north end of the Lions Gate bridge on Wednesday 29 May 0330-0900
  • get bike shops on the North Shore registered with HUB for discounted purchases for HUB members
• Feedback to HUB Regional Advisory Committee Action Plan
  • close out feedback by next week, very little so far
  • focus on regional initiatives
  • If you would like to help out with this please visit the document [here] and add your own comments
• HUB AGM in Burnaby on May 11
  • North Shore group ride to AGM, meet up with Burnaby committee in North Burnaby - start at MEC
• 2013 NS committee budget
• 40km/h speed limit proposal for residential streets from City of Victoria for UBCM (meeting in September)- we could get our municipalities to support it - Burnaby already has it - a possible item for the Regional Advisory Committtee
• North Shore Committee social/picnic (Antje)
  • go to Seymour demonstration forest or on West Van Community Day
• North Shore electric bike share launched
  • will start with 5 bikes
  • Tyler did a presentation to Park Royal
  • http://electricbikeway.com/
  • http://www.northshoreoutlook.com/news/203442521.html

Education & Outreach

• HUB presentation to West Van Chamber of Commerce on 16 April (Peter, Heather)
  • 5 minute presentation without slides was well received - most of audience was from Park Royal
• HUB delegation at West Van council meeting 6 May on Ambleside Bike Friendly Business District (Heather, Peter)
  • Peter and Heather gave another dry run of their planned presentation.
• HUB delegation at North Van City council meeting 24 June on all ages & abilities bike routes (Heather)
• Upcoming events including Bike to Work Week (Mary Ellen)and Lynn Valley Days on 25 May the earliest event coming up
  • We are registered for a booth at West Van community Day and Mary Ellen will try to register us for the parade - HUB T-shirts?
  • need to get message out to our list serve to get riders for the parade
  • BEST does bike valet service at events
  • HUB has portable bike racks - should we bring them to Community Day and Lynn Valley?
  • Mark wants to bring an electric bike(s) join with us OK!
  • bike blenders?
  • need volunteers especially for Lynn Valley Days
  • going to do Canada Day in North Van - Travel Smart will be there and we could join them at waterfront park - will be parade too
  • HUB stickers are available - Heather will make up some
  • will have a practice bus bike rack
  • Antje has banner(s?) and a trailer - discussion of a bigger bike ride event
• E-bike demo at events and Streetwise cycling course on the North Shore
  • Mark & Dorata/Evolution Bikes offered to participate with ebikes
• Bike to School
  • From Steph: I thought you would like to know that we have recently started spreading the word to get schools signed up for Bike to School Week, May 27-31, and a number of North Shore schools have signed up! If you know other schools that might want to get involved, [here] is our "spread the word" email! A few schools have expressed wanting to hold a cycling event at the school, if anyone is interested in helping out by attending a before or after school celebration, let me know!
  • bike event like a rodeo before and after school - Erin offers to volunteer - will contact Steph
  • Dianne suggests contacting her as well
• North Shore bike map distribution (Antje)
  • Antje has boxes at home ready to distribute - will bring them to events - leave a box with HUB HQ
• Invitation from MP John Weston (Peter)1630 on Saturday 4 May - Antje will lead ending up at the Red Lion pub in Dundarave.

Infrastructure

• Updates from North Van transportation advisory committees (Nelson, Heather)
• Second Narrows bridge sidewalk widening (Fiona)
• Cycling during construction of new Low Level Road (Heather)
• Chesterfield improvements 4th to 13th St (Heather)
  • Heather will lead discussion with more details at the next meeting
• 13th St at Lonsdale (approved Onni development)
  • City proposes eastbound bike lane, westbound only shared lane
• North Van District town and village centres (Antje)
  • Lower Capilano Marine Village: proposed bike network
  • Lower Lynn Town: implementation plan and design guidelines
  • painted bike lines proposed
  • planned bike lanes on Grand Boulevard going to lynn Valley under Highway 1 have been approved but lanes are narrow with no space between parked cars
• Keith-Lynn school rezoning for North Shore Studios (Antje)
  • Opportunity to create bike lanes on Mtn Highway?
• Repaving of Mount Seymour Parkway between Mount Seymour Rd and Dollarton Hwy
  • Opportunity for bike lanes?
• West Vancouver cycling infrastructure update (Peter)
  • Norm Wong updated Peter on recent developments
  • Improvment have bee made to make the crossing of Park Royal's bridge over the Capilano River and additonal work at the west end if planned once park royal has provided input.
  • Bicyle infrastuture is being planned for Keith Road in conjunction with the Evelyn Drive Development.
  • Following consultation with residents and Gleneagles School concerning a new western section of the Spirit Trai, a revised plan is being prepared taking into consideration the report of the lively public meeting in April.