2023-02-02 Agenda

HUB North Shore Committee regular meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month at 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Everybody is welcome.

In-person at the North Vancouver City Library (14th/Lonsdale) in the Don Preston Boardroom (2nd floor).

Or Online, NOTE Now Google Meets: https://meet.google.com/myr-xmnd-iob

or by Phone: +1 587-977-8033‬ PIN: ‪290 663 905‬#

General

• Agenda additions
• Introductions

Public Input/Consultations

• Public input is critical when Council and Staff make trade-offs and decisions. Please make sure your voice is heard!!
• DNV Council workshop on East 29th Bikeway - Mon, Feb 6th - link -

New Municipal Councils

• Liaisons to connect with new councillors
  • Introduction of HUB
  • listen to their thoughts/concerns/ideas
  • Share our priorities
• Delegations to councils in New Year
  • Book soon to get in queue
  • Key messages?

Goals & Objectives

• Add Phase 2 top priority Bikeways - current Gaps Map
  • Liaisons to select a one or two for their municipality
• Communications ideas??
• Recruiting ideas??
• Ensure Cycling Priorities are in DWV's Transportation Strategy

Midtown Connector Project (Brandon - CNV)

• Introduction of Project & Questions

City of North Vancouver - Nadia/Sophia

CNV Key Contacts & Staff Meetings

• Brandon Green will be presenting information regarding the Midtown Project to this committee at the February 2nd meeting at 6:45 PM.

Marine Main – Eastbound Transit Extension

Sophia will meet with CNV on Feb 9th about "an introduction to the Marine Main – Eastbound Transit Extension project. This project will extend the eastbound transit priority lane on 3rd Street between Queensbury and Gladstone Avenues, improving speed and reliability for the R2 Rapid Bus. The transit lane is to be delivered with minimal impact to other road users - maintaining people moving capacity of Major Road Network (MRN), truck and industrial functionality, and improving where possible service levels for pedestrians and cyclists." Please share any concerns you have with Sophia before February 9th.

Summary of current/upcoming CNV projects - this year & beyond

St. Andrew’s

• We submitted a letter to Council regarding concerns about cyclist safety and the residents' new proposal for St. Andrew's.

Cotton/Main WB

• City engineers have requested a markup of our suggestions. They believe there is insufficient space between the hydro poles and existing landscaping.

Esplanade

• cycling and pedestrian infrastructure should be finished by end of year; green paint may be delayed until spring
• still waiting for temporary push button at 3rd and Forbes

Casano-Loutet Overpass

• construction will begin in 2023 and complete in 2023 depending on findings of First Nations assessment

Upper Levels Greenway

• lots of interest in the route along 25th

4th and Chesterfield

• in line to get a bike light but no timeline

Forbes

• larger changes are intended at this intersection but dependent on discussions with the Squamish Nation

ITC - Dana & Jonathan

• May meeting postponed to end of month (no updates)

District of North Vancouver - Fred/Don

• Meeting with Staff - currently exchanging emails on various projects.
• Budget Deferrals
  • Basically all cycling related infrastructure on the current roadmap is proposed to be deferred out 5 years
  • Great energy at the workshop on Jan 29 council chambers from the audience - many of the "North Shore Civic Influencers"
  • Herman Mah, Jim Hanson, Catherine Pope, and Jordan Back all speaking in favour of not deferring the Active Transportation priorities: sidewalks & mobility lanes
  • No one from HUB in attendance unfortunately - please consider attending in person or virtually in future - beers after at Queens Cross pub often.

• East 29th
  • Letter sent to staff by Do

• Upper Lynn Valley Rd
  • Mtn. Hwy to Peters Road (Phase 1) - mostly built
  • impressively brine striped in recent cold weather - specialty equipment

• Hunter Street Bridge
  • Finishing up the bridge and ramps, should be open early in the New Year

District of West Vancouver - Paul/Peter/Mike

19 December meeting with Mayor Sager

• Paul and Peter met with the mayor for just over one hour.
• The principal reason he wanted to meet with us was to update us on his pre-election proposal to develop a multi-use pathway on the CN railbed between Horseshoe Bay and Whistler.
• He has made contact with a number of people who have supported his proposal, including a company that would like to sponsor the initiative.
• He asked for the support of HUB and in turn said he would support our goals.
• We suggested that because the proposal extends beyond the District's boundary, it would be good to get the support of the BC Cycling Coalition.
• Paul had prepared a briefing note which he gave to the mayor and we used it as a basis to inform him on some of the previous plans to improve active transportation in the District. This included the 2010 West Vancouver Strategic Transporation Plan, and its follow-up Technical Implementation Committee, the 2018 OCP, TransLink's recently released Transport 2050 with its 10-Year Priorities, and the ongoing development of a District mobility plan.
• We also informed him of our major bike infrastructure priorities for the District, including North Shore HUB's goal of a Marine to Main route and a dedicated route for cyclists between Ambleside and the Welch Street Bridge.

Ministry of Transportation & Infrastructure- Don/Mike

• Phibbs Exchange
  • Phase 1 just started (complete by May-2023?)
    • Detours with signage in place. The connection between Orwell and south side of main is a long ugly detour via Mtn Highway, or ride with traffic on the off-ramp. They will try to improve this in month or so if they can widen the off-ramp once they move some utilities.
  • Phase 2 will start after Phase 1 and finish in late 2024. Detours should be much better for this phase.

Communications & Outreach - Rueben/Paul/Heather

• let us know if there is something we should communicate about - blocked bike lanes, new infrastructure, etc.
• Twitter (Rueben)
  • Helped get word out about proposed 29th Street bike lane removal (DNV) and 2023-2027 draft budget proposal to defer bike lane construction (DNV)
  • Promoting HUB events (Go by Bike week Feb 6-12)
  • Documenting new and existing bike lanes (and related infrastructure). In January, posted photos of:
    • New Lynn Creek Bridge
    • Lynn Valley Bike Lane (Phase 1, Mtn Hwy to Peters Rd)
    • Esplanade Bike Lane construction

Schools - Paul Janzen

• No updates for the school programs currently. Instruction recommences mid March.