Meeting Summary: July 14, 2016
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- Attendance:Guest: Nick Mani, Peter S, Tony (Chair), Dianne, Nelson, Erica, Fred, Don, Antje, Heather J, Rob, Imola
- Minutes Review
- Main items from the last meeting were the review of recent events and Melissa, Chaun, Events Coordinator for the Rivershed Society of BC talking to us about FraserFEST
- Review of past and planning for upcoming events - FraserFEST
- Lynn Valley Day was rained out at s but lots came to our booth at North van City Canada Day.
- Next year we should plan in advance to participate in the Canada Day parade.
- Decided not to participate in Deep Cove days on 28 August or car free day in North Van due to the cost to enter a booth ($175 for a booth at car free day)
- We will consider participating in the Coho Festival in West Vancouver on Sunday, 11 September at Ambleside Park.
- Tony suggested that we consider organizing a passion bike event next summer (https://www.facebook.com/passionbikevalencia/) which is a family event at sunrise.
- Webinar Updates
- Nelson briefed the goup on the Biketoria webinar about the success of planning for and installing cycling infrastructure in Victoria.
- Political will and community engagement were important factors contributing to the success.
- 5 km of AAA bike lanes this year with plans for 20 more km by 2018.
- SFU cities program put on a webinar – pulic health perspective
- Municipalities
- CNV Update (10 min)
- Spirit Trail tunnel- engineering plans are underway.
- East Keith and Grand Boulevard - construction was scheduled to begin in July, with completion expected in December, 2016.
- Delegation to Council on AAA bike lanes - planned for October 3.
- DNV Update
- As a member of the DNV transportation committee, Nelson participated in the Maplewood Village stakeholder workshop which was the first stakeholder meeting - another is expected in October.
- Fred went to a developer open house on the project which is planned to contain 180 suites and 280 parking spots as required in the bylaw.
- We should see how it merges with Spirit Trial and bike master Plan.
- DNV Public Library bike racks- Antje found out plan it is to put bike racks outside and three at Lynn Valley
- DNV should follow TransLink bike rack guidelines
- Antje informed the meeting about a potential greenway Blueridge to Parkgate where there is currently a hiking trail and a perimeter trail around the golf course.
- On 30 June, Tony and Antje and Peter met with MLAs Yamamoto, Sultan and Thornthwaite about our proposed cycle highway alongside Hwy1 from Mountain Hwy exchange to IWMB.
- They were very interested in the proposal and would follow up with MoTI staff.
- Antje will post map of the proposed route on wiki along with the prepared with slide presentation.
- DWV Update
- Heather Johnston met with John Calimente on the planned route of the Spirit Trail in Horseshoe Bay with a two-way separated bike lanes on the east side of Royal Avenue.
- We are not sure this is the best plan as it is downhill and could be dangerous.
- Heather will meet again with John after the 25 July council meeting which will discuss the Horseshoe Bay Streetscape Plan which could impact the proposed route on royal Avenue.
- A HUB letter suggesting uphill bike lanes on 15th and 21st Streets during planned repaving has been prepared and will be sent on 15 July.
- Secure Automated Bicycle Parking Systems
- Nick Mani, the CEO of Mazdis, presented some of these very space efficient and visually appealing parking systems.
- He showed us some slides of the 35 and 54 rack units.
- In response to our question about cost, he estimated that the smaller unit capable of storing 35 bicycles would cost about $40,000.
- Nick said that these systems tend to attract more cyclists to locations where they are installed.
- Nick can provide more information on these systems and how they differ from TransLink's current secure bike parkade.
- CNV Update (10 min)