Difference between revisions of "2020-10-08 Agenda"

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Agenda additions
Introductions

Goals & Objectives

2020 Goals Overview - presentation
- Implementation of 3 top priority Bikeways
  - Analysis of current state all segments of the 3 Bikeways and next steps for each
  - will be added to UnGap the Map database
- Establish communications with community stakeholders re Bikeways.
  - Set-up meeting with West Van Chamber of Commerce & Ambleside Dundarave BIA - On Hold
  - Prepare message to share with NS Cycle clubs/organization - Heather/Don

General

Need volunteer for DNV Liaison & Vice Chair, to replace Jay

Events - Fred

Fall Bike2Work Week - Sep-28-Oct-2 -

- 3 "Knowledge HUBs' instead of Celebration stations
  - Monday - Lion's Gate Bridge, N Side - 451 people on bikes went by
  - Tuesday - 1st and Welch St (CNV) - 376 cyclist went by, with 143 of those stopping at the booth
  - Thursday 1st - Ironworkers (DNV) - 244 cyclist went by, with 83 of those stopping at the booth

City of North Vancouver - Erika/Heather

Esplanade block from Lonsdale to Rodgers
- Staff acknowledge this block is not working. They will remove street furniture and try planters to separate cycling path from walking path.

Esplanade Long Term
- COVID and staffing capacity has pushed back consultation timeline, along with need to give leadership confidence in proceeding forward — it’s an expensive and significant project. Strong recommendation to do more legwork, which they have done and continue to do, making sure key stakeholders are included
- After looking at other options, staff recommend that Esplanade is the most efficient, logical and connected cycling route in terms of commercial and transit access
- Initial stakeholder engagement w/ Lower Lonsdale BIA, NV Chamber of Commerce, TransLink departments incl. Major Road Network folks, Port of Vancouver, BC Trucking Associations, CNV Ops and Fire Departments, and HUB of course. Discussed what is and isn’t working well for those groups + various tools within the Complete Street toolbox. Some agreement between them on what doesn’t work well which includes the perspective of cyclists.
- Stakeholders preferred each user group to be separated. Drivers and cyclists often feel uncomfortable side-by-side. Truck drivers say they slow down quite considerably and feel quite stressed — lots going on there. Don’t want to create more conflicts between fast-moving cyclists and people walking.
- Parking: Off-street parking identified by BIA, CoC as key opportunity to look at more; move more of the parking demand into those off-street lots that have a lot of availability.
- Oct 5: Council endorsed complete street for Esplanade
- Timeline: Fall 2020 Community engagement followed by detailed design in winter and more engagement coming winter-spring 2021; finalize design based on community feedback, in spring 2021; construction to begin in summer/fall 2021 (subject to funding and external grants — need to know they have the $ before they start construction)

1st Street / 2nd Street Corridor
- Parking protected on N side. Where no parking, concrete barries to separate bike path. Southside, concrete barriers as well. There's a number of driveways so quite a bit of green paint and other elements to highlight areas of potential conflict. Updated design on the project at https://letstalk.cnv.org/west-1st-bike-lane-upgrade
- Will complete most of the work in off-peak hours. Have done some of the paving work already including some work on the bridge that connects 2nd to 1st (smoother entry and exits)
- Timeline: End of Oct beginning of Nov substantially completed
- In 2023 LEC will connect to the wastewater treatment plant and 1st will be repaved.The City should be able to keep most of what we build now and then have the opportunity to re-assess in 2 years

Priority Routes
- 1st Street
- Midtown Route to Casano Loutet bridge - 13th to Boulevard then up to 17th?
- Upper Levels Greenway
- Esplanade

Local bikeway spot improvements coming:
- Signal coming at 4th & Lonsdale for 4th street bike route with traffic calming (diverters) planned at intersections @ Chesterfield and @ St Georges
- Signal at 3rd & St Andrews

East Keith
- Status of bike lane plan?

Mobility Strategy
- Andrew Devlin, manager of transportation, presented the vision and principles of the strategy for feedback from the Climate and Environment Advisory Task Force earlier this week.
- Public engagement opportunities coming in the spring of 2021

CityFix app
- Has anybody had success using this to fix street/signal issues, other than sweeping bike lanes?

District of North Vancouver - Don/Ryan

1st Avenue West
- Parking protected bike lane once. Treatment plant construction allows. Will be coordinated with City design.
LV rd & E 29th
- Reduced fast lane width on Lynn Valley Road allowed a 0.3m bike lane buffer space after repaving. Will install permanent style plastic posts this fall. This will allow passing as the cycle lane is only 1.5m
- Plastic post should be installed in the ext month or two install on East 29th as well
- Public consultation for Upper Lynn Valley Road bike lane postponed until at least the fall
DNV Priority Bike Network Engagement
- The received over 1000 inputs to the survey. Should get results in the next couple weeks
- Plan to present priorities to Council at Nov 9th meeting.
- Requested a review prior to this presentation
Marine / Mcguire pinch point
- DNV reviewing internally to see what can be done with the space available.
Lower Lynn Wayfinding signage
- Reviewed with staff and they were most receptive. Updated version in Sep/Oct???
North end of Mtn Hwy overpass connection with Arbourlynn:
- Consultant is working on options expected in Fall, hoping to build in 2021.
- Meeting in Sept to coordinate on MoTI connections and Corridor Study.
Casano connector route to LV TC.
- Public consultation on hold
Keith/Brooksbank intersection signal issues (Antje)
E Keith Rd plan status?

District of West Vancouver - Paul/Peter

Response to COVID-19 pandemic
- Slow street signage along Bellevue and west to 31st is still in place and there has been some favourable comments to Council including a petition.
New sharrows on the Welch street bridge but wrongly placed to the side of the traffic lanes contradicting the take-the-lane signage. Hopefully they will be better placed when construction of the MUP is completed.
Festival street on 14th between Bellevue and Marine Drive is under construction with a much wider sidewalk on the west side, but it looks like parking on both sides so no accommodation for cyclists even though 14th Street is part of the cycling network.
Paul and Peter were at the the BTWW station at the north end of the Lions Gate Bridge on 28 September and counted 451 cyclist between 4-6 pm.
The northern most block of Royal Avenue in Horseshoe Bay is under construction as part of a streetscape project.
30 km/hr speed limit now on Fulton Avenue which is on the bike network.

MOTI - Antje/Don

Lower Lynn - Monthly meeting
- Potential east side connector between Main St and Mt Seymour Parkway - 2 major pinch points

asked to renaming and consider protecting part of it?

- Construction around Main St and the Ironworkers bridgehead starts in October
  - Main south side closed for Oct - looking into widening path as well as pile driving
    - Requested a variance so the inland by the off ramp will be widened
    - Detour is not great, requested better detour signage
  - Main north side in Nov-dec?
  - Bridge west sidewalk closed all winter - asked them to shorten this closure
Hwy 1 North Shore Corridor Study Lynn Valley to Horseshoe Bay
- Sent Input for Cycling Improvements for the Hwy 1 Corridor Study
- Waiting for early draft of study - Due in Oct?

Developers - Fred/Don

Currently active:
- Harbourside (near King's Mill park)
  - Provided input on HUB submission for Cycling Amenities to be included in 1st phase of development.

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 ===City of North Vancouver - Erika/Heather===
-*'''Esplanade block from Lonsdale to Rogers'''
+*'''Esplanade block from Lonsdale to Rodgers'''
 **Staff acknowledge this block is not working. They will remove street furniture and try planters to separate cycling path from walking path.
 *'''Esplanade Long Term'''
-**COVID and staffing capacity has pushed back consultation timeline, along with need to give leadership confidence in proceeding forward — it’s an expensive and significant project. Strong recommendation to do more legwork, which they’re doing, including making sure key stakeholders are included, which they’re doing
+**COVID and staffing capacity has pushed back consultation timeline, along with need to give leadership confidence in proceeding forward — it’s an expensive and significant project. Strong recommendation to do more legwork, which they have done and continue to do, making sure key stakeholders are included
-**After looking at options, Esplanade is still the most efficient, logical and connected cycling route in terms of commercial and transit access
+**After looking at other options, staff recommend that Esplanade is the most efficient, logical and connected cycling route in terms of commercial and transit access
 ** Initial stakeholder engagement w/ Lower Lonsdale BIA, NV Chamber of Commerce, TransLink departments incl. Major Road Network folks, Port of Vancouver, BC Trucking Associations, CNV Ops and Fire Departments, and HUB of course. Discussed what is and isn’t working well for those groups + various tools within the Complete Street toolbox. Some agreement between them on what doesn’t work well which includes the perspective of cyclists.
-**Stakeholders preferred each user group to be separated. Drivers and cyclists often feel uncomfortable side-by-side. Truck drivers say they slow down quite considerably and feel quite stressed — lots going on there. Don’t want to create more conflicts between fast moving cyclists and people walking.
+**Stakeholders preferred each user group to be separated. Drivers and cyclists often feel uncomfortable side-by-side. Truck drivers say they slow down quite considerably and feel quite stressed — lots going on there. Don’t want to create more conflicts between fast-moving cyclists and people walking.
-**Parking Off-street parking identified by BIA, CoC as key opportunity to look at more; move more of the parking demand into those off-street lots that have a lot of availability.
+**Parking: Off-street parking identified by BIA, CoC as key opportunity to look at more; move more of the parking demand into those off-street lots that have a lot of availability.
 **Oct 5: Council endorsed complete street for Esplanade
 ** Timeline: Fall 2020 Community engagement followed by detailed design in winter and more engagement coming winter-spring 2021; finalize design based on community feedback, in spring 2021; construction to begin in summer/fall 2021 (subject to funding and external grants — need to know they have the $ before they start construction)
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 **Parking protected on N side. Where no parking, concrete barries to separate bike path. Southside, concrete barriers as well. There's a number of driveways so quite a bit of green paint and other elements to highlight areas of potential conflict. Updated design on the project at https://letstalk.cnv.org/west-1st-bike-lane-upgrade
 **Will complete most of the work in off-peak hours. Have done some of the paving work already including some work on the bridge that connects 2nd to 1st (smoother entry and exits)
-**Timeline: End of Oct/beginning of Nov have it substantially completed
+**Timeline: End of Oct beginning of Nov substantially completed
-**In 2023 LEC will connect to the wastewater treatment plant and the road will be repaved.The City should be able to keep most of what we build now and then have the opportunity to re-assess in 2 years
+**In 2023 LEC will connect to the wastewater treatment plant and 1st will be repaved.The City should be able to keep most of what we build now and then have the opportunity to re-assess in 2 years
+*'''Priority Routes'''
+**1st Street
+**Midtown Route to Casano Loutet bridge - 13th to Boulevard then up to 17th?
+**Upper Levels Greenway
+**Esplanade
-*'''St Andrews / 17th:'''
+*'''Local bikeway spot improvements coming:'''
-**reducing speeds on those shared open streets to 30 kmh. Signs are up on both streets. Heard complaints second-hand that traffic has increased on adjacent streets.
-**traffic diverters on 13th and 15th and St Andrews
-**other traffic calming on St. Andrews
-Take the Open Streets Survey here https://letstalk.cnv.org/open-streets-in-the-city and please write to Council with your support for Open Streets road reallocations and traffic calming.
-*'''Cotton (opposite Park & Tilford)'''
-Technically this MUP is open but the west side entrance has a bumpy letdown. Reminder sent to Justin Hall.
-*'''Local bikeway spot improvements STILL coming:'''
 ** Signal coming at 4th & Lonsdale for 4th street bike route with traffic calming (diverters) planned at intersections @ Chesterfield and @ St Georges
 ** Signal at 3rd & St Andrews
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 *'''East Keith'''
 ** Status of bike lane plan?
+*'''Mobility Strategy'''
+**Andrew Devlin, manager of transportation, presented the vision and principles of the strategy for feedback from the Climate and Environment Advisory Task Force earlier this week.
+**Public engagement opportunities coming in the spring of 2021
 *'''CityFix app'''
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 ** Public consultation for Upper Lynn Valley Road bike lane postponed until at least the fall
 * DNV Priority Bike Network Engagement
-** The received over 1200 inputs to the survey. Should get results in the next couple weeks
+** The received over 1000 inputs to the survey. Should get results in the next couple weeks
 ** Plan to present priorities to Council at Nov 9th meeting.
 ** Requested a review prior to this presentation
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 ===District of West Vancouver - Paul/Peter===
 *Response to COVID-19 pandemic
+**Slow street signage along Bellevue and west to 31st is still in place and there has been some favourable comments to Council including a petition.
-**On 21 July, Peter, Paul and Joe Weiler met with John Calimente to discuss feedback on the Bellevue slow streets implementation and subsequent phases of slow streets implementation.
+* New sharrows on the Welch street bridge but wrongly placed to the side of the traffic lanes contradicting the take-the-lane signage. Hopefully they will be better placed when construction of the MUP is completed.
-**John informed us that consideration and implementation of the next phases of slow streets, beyond Phase 2, including loops through Ambleside and Dundarave, has been postponed until next year due to insufficient resources available.
+* Festival street on 14th between Bellevue and Marine Drive is under construction with a much wider sidewalk on the west side, but it looks like parking on both sides so no accommodation for cyclists even though 14th Street is part of the cycling network.
-**Having not heard from the Ambleside Dundarave Business Improvement Association (ADBIA), nor the District, we assume that consideration of plans for a Ciclovia for West Van has also been postponed until next year.
+* Paul and Peter were at the the BTWW station at the north end of  the Lions Gate Bridge on 28 September and counted 451 cyclist between 4-6 pm.
-**On 27 July, we received an email for our comment from John Calimente with proposed routes for future slow streets, including a phase 3 route in 2021 along Duchess/Esquimalt/Haywood Avenues.
+* The northern most block of Royal Avenue in Horseshoe Bay is under construction as part of a streetscape project.
-**Just after the BC Day holiday weekend, Phase 2 of slow streets was implemented extending the Bellevue Avenue slow street signage to 31st Street along a route south of the railway tracks (http://wiki.bikehub.ca/northshore/images/3/37/31st_and_Proctor_slow_streets_westward_extension_2020-08-06_IMG_3010.jpg.
+* 30 km/hr speed limit now on Fulton Avenue which is on the bike network.
-*On 16 July, at a public hearing, West Van Council, in a 4-3 decision, decided to allow Park Royal to proceed to the next step in their proposed addition of 95 rental units to the Gateway Residences development. Both Paul and and Peter had previously written to the mayor and council in support of the additional 95 rental units and mentioning our satisfaction with the inclusion end-of-trip cycling facilities and the storage of a Cycling Without Age trishaw. Peter intervened by telephone in support of the proposed addition at the public hearing.
-*3rd annual 20-in-20 Infrastructure Challenge - on 23 July Evan Hammer at HUB HQ sent to John Calimente the 20 suggested minor cycling infrastructure improvements that Paul and Peter had proposed.
-*In the 27 July email, John Calimente provided for our comment proposed changes to the West Vancouver bike network. This process of revising the West Van bike network map complicates our provision of input to update the HUB State of Cycling map.
-*Cypress Village - the community consultation process got underway in July in the context of Planning for the Upper Lands (https://www.westvancouverite.ca/upperlands). More detailed information and analysis will be added to the webpages throughout July and August, and there will be opportunities for small group discussions as well as a public survey.
 === MOTI - Antje/Don===
+*Lower Lynn - Monthly meeting
+** Potential east side connector between Main St and Mt Seymour Parkway - 2 major pinch points
+asked to renaming and consider protecting part of it?
+** Construction around Main St and the Ironworkers bridgehead starts in October
+*** Main south side closed for Oct - looking into widening path as well as pile driving
+**** Requested a variance so the inland by the off ramp will be widened
+**** Detour is not great, requested better detour signage
+*** Main north side in Nov-dec?
+***Bridge west sidewalk closed all winter - asked them to shorten this closure
 *Hwy 1 North Shore Corridor Study Lynn Valley to Horseshoe Bay
 **Sent [[Media:2020-07-03_HUB-cycling-for-Hwy1-corridor.pdf|Input for Cycling Improvements for the Hwy 1 Corridor Study]]
-** Waiting for early draft of study
+** Waiting for early draft of study - Due in Oct?
-*Lower Lynn - Monthly meeting
-** Potential east side connector between Main St and Mt Seymour Parkway - 2 major pinch points
-** Construction around Main St and the Ironworkers bridgehead starts in October - cycling detours to come
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 ===Schools - Tammy/Martyn===