April 2022
In attendance
Colin, Andrew, Colleen, Vince, Dragana
Guests: Geoffrey Keyworth, Monique Beaudry, Breanna Jackson (Associated Engineering)
Bedwell Bay Road Transportation Study
Presented by Geoffrey K, + transportation engineers Breanna Jackson + Monique Beaudry
PoMo partnering with Metro on this project. Belcarra and Anmore declined partnership offer.
Bedwell Bay Road is the main access to temtemixwten/ White Pine Beach
Terrible traffic in summer
HUB requested Sasamat Greenway in 2021 (yay Colleen)
This corridor is also listed in Metro 2050 Vision
Project objectives: safety, active transportation corridor, nix illegal parking
Needs assessment: no dedicated space for walking/cycling, parking situation makes this worse. Area has high transit use.
Four key improvement areas:
- Bedwell Bay Road
- White Pine Beach Road intersection
- Floatwalk access
- Tum Tumay Wheuton intersection.
Bedwell Bay Road may get concrete barrier separating bidirectional MUP, like some sections of Spirit Trail in Nvan Or else unidirectional ped/cycling facilities on either side, separated by TBD delineators
Currently, planning team has run a quick sanity check on both options and identified some areas where achieving exact objectives may not be possible. Bidirectional path has a little more flexibility to reduce width while remaining usable
(can go down to 2.7 while retaining Translink funding)
Geoffrey: Translink is not likely to fund this, as it's pretty rural. But too early to talk about this. Maybe Metro, Federal Active Transportation Plan
Study aiming to produce a "functional plan".
They are also working on an Ioco Road study which hasn't been started yet. They're thinking of doing them concurrently for potentially better integration.
Committee has informal preference for bi-directional MUP in this case
- Nice solution for restricting illegal parking
- More bi-directional flexibility
- Single-sided could get fairly tight where space is constrained
- Single sided could be uncomfortable at speed, downhill
Possible action item: Andrew to write an informal email to Geoffrey Keyworth expressing informal preference for bi-directional MUP.
Advocacy updates
Intersection upgrades: raised crossings along Donald pathway
Mundy Park trail : to expand King Albert Greenway, 3M wide with lighting Gatensbury: looking bad. Mary Hill Bypass meeting: Jeff Leigh, Evan Hammer. KFN is trying to block the path on the south side. They prefer a path on the north side. This leads to dangerous slip lane crossings. Not much progress.
Moray Street traffic calming
Existing Moray Street traffic calming has negatively affected pedestrans. PoMo wants to fix this. Looks like their fix will negatively affect cycling. We are somewhat sad about this. Action item: Committee to do an assessment walk in May.
STP updates
Sasamat Greenway next steps
There is a minor problem at Belcarra: two councillors are dead against AT improvements. Carolina Clark, John Snell Example: they voted down applying for $60K in funding. There is talk of using Tum Tumay Wheuton as the route out but this leaves Belcarra Village residents without a good route. Marine Drive is good as long as we get trail access on the west end.
Tum Tumay Wheuton trail
Section along the road used for overflow parking which negatively affects cycling access. Maze gates at all trail/road intersections frustrate progress.
Port Moody updates
PoMo looking at moving cycling lanes next to the sidewalk along Glenayre Drive. PoMo also interested in improving micro-mobility stuff. Andrew encouraged them to provide better separation for people moving at different speeds.