2025-05-01 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, using Google Meets: https://meet.google.com/myr-xmnd-iob

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

General

• Agenda additions
• Introductions of meeting attendees.

Public Input/Consultations

• Public input is critical when Council and Staff make trade-offs and decisions. Please make sure your voice is heard!!

Goals & Objectives

Complete 3 Top Priority Bikeways!

• 2025 Goals presentation
  • Map of 2024 Improvements & Gaps
  • ICBC Crash Datasets - FYI and to help focus & prioritize our efforts
    • ICBC crashes involving cyclist Map

Events - Nicole

• Earth Day: April 26, Sunrise park 10-2, CNV
  • Thanks to: Duncan, Nicole, Derrick
• Blueridge Good Neighbour Day – May-25th , 11:00-15:00
  • Staffing:
    • 10:30-13:00: need 2
    • 13:00-15:30; need 2
• Spring Go by Bike Week – Mon 31-May – Fri 6-Jun 2025
  • need a list of celebration stations

Rides - Helen

• Ride #1
  • details with link
• Kidical Mass bike ride - James ~7:30
  • Perhaps June 2nd, 4pm
  • Queen Mary Elementary School through Victoria Park and up to Mahon Park using mostly separated bike path.
• Future routes and priorities
  • Other Local Committees have talked to the Municipal Staff to find out what is planned and then done assessment rides on the route to provide as input.
  • While other Local Committees have done more social rides to attract membership and show off good existing routes.

City of North Vancouver - Rhonda/Easton/Jacob

• Meeting with Staff
  • Last meeting was Sep-20. We will ask for another meeting in late January.

• Esplanade
  • Advanced walk at Esplanade and Lonsdale

• Upper Levels Greenway
  • Will start with the Lonsdale Ave to St. Andrews Segment first, working with MOTI on intersection improvements at Lonsdale and HWY 1

• Casano Loutet Bridge
  • Will be under construction in early spring 2025 - the city received MOTI approval

• Chesterfield and Midtown routes
  • HUB North Shore submitted an official letter of support for the staff report on these two routes.
  • Heather attended council to thank staff for this most comprehensive report ever : ) dealing with project risks and realistically handling design in tight spaces

District of North Vancouver - Duncan/Stephen/Stewart/Mike G

• Regular meeting with DNV staff April 11
  • Ungap the map for next DNV meeting - comments welcome e.g., Lynn Valley Road (by the mall)

• Mtn Hwy safety improvements.
  • Still no consensus. Staff to revise plan again. No action for Hub at this time and instead focus on alternative routes.
  • Issue so caught up with congestion at bottom of Mtn Hwy that very challenging to resolve.
  • Lessons learnt on messaging to try to decouple from the Mountain Highway Safety Improvements.

• Arbolynn alternative - Inter-River park
• LGB Marine Drive
  • moving to construction!! This should be celebrated by Hub as multi-jurisdictional etc.

District of West Vancouver - Peter/Mike C

• BC Ferries has contracted HUB Cycling's Bike Friendly Buildings team to gather user perspectives about using their services for cycling transportation.
• Peter has volunteered to participate in a HUB focus group on BC Ferries with potential dates being Apr 28, Apr 29, May 5 or May 6 in the evening. No finalized date has yet been set.
• Nothing else to report this month.

First Nations - Kira

• Generate summaries of their cycling related goals and then add assessment of how this aligns with our goals. Also how this aligns with neighbouring muni's plans.
  • Develop strategy how to move forward.

Ministry of Transportation & Frustration - Mike C/Don

• Requesting a meeting but still no response yet
  • Multiple broken sections of Stanley Park Causeway fencing have finally been fixed, asked how this could happen faster in the future,
  • Will discuss any improvement plans they have for 2025/26
  • Will discuss creating a prioritized list of operations related GAPs to be fixed

Communications & Outreach - Rueben/Heather

• let us know if there is something we should communicate about - blocked bike lanes, new infrastructure, etc.

• Bluesky / Mastodon (Rueben)
  • HUBnorthshore on Bluesky and Mastodon
  • Posted photos sent to me of the start of the Casano-Loutet Overpass (trees cut)
  • Posted May 4th Group Ride. Send me photos if you have any.
  • Development proposal for Moodyville shows possible future Spirit Trail route (between St Davids Ave and Moodyville Park)
  • Photos of completed Riverside Drive (sent by Derrik)
  • Photo of booth at Earth Day event at Sunrise Park

• Facebook(Heather)

• North Shore News and Other
  • Fast. Fun. Cheap. The joy of e-biking on the North Shore
  • Duncan was on the BC Bike Sense podcast to discuss Cargo Bikes available at the Libraries:
    • Apple Podcast
    • Spotify

• Share Cathy's letter outlining reasoned responses to criticism of AT infrastructure.

Schools - Paul

• Community Center programs have expanded from Trout Lake (Vancouver), Thompson Community Center (Richmond) and coming soon Lafarge Lake (Tri Cities).
  • Program there include:
    • Beginners
    • Intermediate
    • Advanced
    • EBike
    • Basic Mechanics
    • Special seniors
    • Special Womens

Social

• @ Jack Lonsdales, after the meeting.
  • All are welcome