November 2016
TriCities HUB Committee Meeting Minutes (provisional)
Date/Time: November 1, 2016, 7:00-8:50PM.
Location: Coquitlam Public Library, 1169 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam
Attendees: Jack T., Simon W., Andrew H., Rachel, Meredith S., guest Erin O'Melinn (HUB ED)
Coquitlam Cycling education: All Coquitlam middle school kids in grades 6 and 7 received cycling HUB courses over the past 2 years, through City and TransLink funding. $8000/school – 5 sessions. Covering several classes – 8x8 - $64,000. Unclear whether funding will continue. HUB has sent inquiry to city staff. None of the School Districts have ever funded. Erin will look for an opportunity to report back to Council on the successes from the courses, to make the case that the funding continue.
Port Coquitlam cycling funding: Local committee provided feedback in June. Need to follow up – have the improvements happened? What about the unallocated $5000? Did they adjust anything since June? Could request being a delegation to Council or the Transportation Solutions and Public Works committee. Opportunity to do better infrastructure or school cycling education: - Kingsway, Oxford – wide enough to put parked car buffered bike lanes without engineering - Letter – Simon will draft
Evergreen line opening: TransLink – first week of December latest Shop the Line event? TransLink talking with HUB about that. Share the Road challenge – race person on bike, car, transit to the station. Erin looking into doing this as an interesting media event.
TransPort Moody Plan: Erin met with Port Moody Staff, overall seems really promising. Another discussion paper coming. MTP might be approved in Feb. Further investigation might be good: • MUP along Ioco – safety studies show separation between bikes and peds is important where there is high volume. • 2-way bike paths on 2-way streets – along Clarke, but there are no intersections, so that’s okay • Clarke Rd – way steeper along Seaview. So we need to give that feedback. Consider widening the sidewalk anyhow. Could go DOWN Seaview Seaforth • Short term priority – connectivity to skytrain Bike BC funding – encourage to apply Encouraging Moody Middle to get cycling education Goal: share a Port Moody scored gap list with the City We want all of the improvements done, but let’s communicate to the City which are the best ones to start with, compare our priorities with their list Simon will schedule, lead a Port Moody assessment ride. Meredith will enter gaps into spreadsheet, bring to committee meeting for discussion.
Port Moody Zoning Bylaw update – opportunity to start requiring good bike storage for commercial and residential buildings.
Coquitlam, PoCo city committees: Jack may apply to be on PoCo’s TSPW committee - application due Nov 18
Updates:
Fraser Mills site planning status: Jack and Simon met with developer – Beedie. Variance application coming to Council on December 1st. Jack will connect with the City to see if there are any updates
Pitt River Bridge MOTI meeting: Daniel Johnston contacted HUB couple weeks ago. We had some outstanding requests on things that weren’t done right on the bridge. Bus lane going westbound – barricaded. MOTI is considering removing concrete barriers. Simon will write a follow-up letter
TAC Guidelines Update: Kay Teschke and Gavin Davidson – part of the TAC guideline update. Erin is considering planning an event with them presenting the TAC updates to City staff, maybe politicians and committee folks – in early 2017. Lots of good cycling guidelines improvements expected.
Next meeting: December 6, 2016 Minutes recorded by Meredith Seeton