Meeting Summary: January 9, 2014
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- Attendance: Guests from the City of North Vancouver: Daniel Watson and Iona Bonamis (Transportation Planners), Antje, Peter, Heather, Fiona, Dianne, Ian, Sibylle, Erika, Karine, Don (Norwest Cycle Club), Tom (North Shore Safety Council)
- AAA Routes in the City of North Vancouver
- presentation by Iona Bonamis and Daniel Watson, including printout of option maps
- All Ages and Abilities (AAA) facilities
- this initiative builds on and updates the 2008 transportation plan and the 2012 bicycle master plan, which aims to have all residents within 300m of bicycle facilities
- AAA generally plans for physical barriers on arterial streets (e.g. delineator posts on Larson Street in North Vancouver) and bikeways on local streets, which generally costs less (about $50,000 per km)
- bi-directional separated bike lanes cost about $1.5 M per km
- off street and multi-purpose paths cost about $1.0 M per km
- Iona presented three scenarios for AAA infrastructure in 10-year capital plan:
- Scenario A: fill in existing AAA facilities - $8.0 M over 10 years ($2.0 M more than the existing capital plan)
- Scenario B1: use local roads to connect major destinations and isolated areas – $13.0 M over 10 years
- Scenario B2: focus on more direct routes via arterials - $19.0 M over 10 years
- ensuing discussion on AAA routes included: importance of Chesterfield or Lonsdale to access city centre and SeaBus, 13th versus 14th, Queensbury versus Hendry, East Keith, and 24th Street connection to Westview
- staff needs our comments (via Heather) by the 15th of January - indicate what is missing, what we like and what we don't like
- Low Level Road and the related section of the Spirit Trail to be finished in October 2014
- Stanley Park causeway update (Antje, 10min)
- Rural Highway Safety and Speed Review 29 Nov - 24 January 2014 (Fiona, 5 min)
- comments:higher speed limits will make highways less safe for cyclists and produce more greenhouse gases
- feedback requested by 24 January (http://engage.gov.bc.ca/safetyandspeedreview/)