May 2017

Meeting minutes for May 2017

In attendance: Andrew, Jack, Simon, Ellie, Meredith, Rachel, Leon

• Group ride planning for Sunday May 28th
  • Waivers
    • Meredith to handle bringing extra waivers on the day of the ride.
    • We'll make sure to send out pdfs ahead of time though and encourage riders to print them themselves
  • Publicity
    • Let's use the facebook group and email Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge
  • Route
    • ~30 km Gillnetter-Stomping Grounds loop sounds about right.
    • Andrew to map a preliminary route and email the group with it

• TCT 25
  • This year is the 25th anniversary of the Trans-Canada Trail. Leon filled us in on Trans-Canada Trail Day rides and celebrations planned for the 26th.

• Canada Day celebrations in Coquitlam
  • Group has passed on running a HUB booth as none of us has time to run a booth that day.

• Borrowing a watt bike to add interest to HUB booths (potentially at our Poco booth in August)
  • Andrew to email Pete Smith @ Norco

• Cycle Highways Working Group
  • The group agreed that Tri-Cities LC's submissions to this group are worthy: they are United Blvd, Mary Hill Bypass and Lougheed Highway from Pitt River to Coquitlam.
  • However, we don't think they are particularly tractable at the level of local government.
  • Andrew to look into proposing a separated lane along Guildford instead via this group. Guildford is not as huge and regional as our official choices but it has a lot of virtues:
    • connects two municipalities
    • connects lots of schools
    • connects arts and cultural venues
    • lines up with Coquitlam's evident interest in getting kids riding to school, and is likely fairly tractable at a municipal level
  • Jack to look into setting up a meeting with a city contact about this
  • Andrew to write up our little position paper on Guildford, with Andrew Picard's approval

• HUB AGM for Sept 23rd
  • Library not formally booked yet, but Jack is on it.

• Fraser Fest
  • Leon filled us in about this event
  • http://rivershed.com/fraserfest/community-festivals/fraserfest-coquitlam/

• Updates from Ellie re. goings-on at HUB Central
  • Bike-in movie night on May 27th
  • Bike to school week
  • Bike shop days
  • BTWW
  • Bike the Night Sept 16th
  • Andrew P., Erin, Ellie will attend a workshop with municipal transportation engineers.
  • new education flyers
  • Meetings with Mainroad re. routes that need cleaning more frequently
    • Group spitballed some routes, noted that in a lot of cases making phone calls gets results
    • Idea: possible sticker/ flyer campaign in for lampposts in bad areas, featuring the locally useful numbers to call and emails to email