Meeting Summary: March 7, 2013

Attendance & Agenda

• Attendance: Kathy, Nelson, Ann, Bill, Winifred, Antje, Fiona, Helen, Dianne and Yoko

Education & Outreach

• Sea to Sky cycling project update
  • map of cycling hazards will be put on a website with real time updates possible - now in beta stage
  • suggest contact Grand Fondo organizers
  • to be finished in 3 weeks
  • can access from Flickr and Twitter
  • need volunteers to spread the word about website
  • $116,000 estimated cost to fix hazards
  • presented at Velo City
  • MoT agrees with hazards are dangerous
  • database to be unploaded to SFU

• HUB delegation at DNV council meeting Feb 18, recap (Antje)
  • Antje presented - Dianne, Nelson and Peter were there
  • question about bike to school and training
  • Antje followed up with a letter about cycling education in schools
  • City pays HUB to provide education to schools

• HUB delegation at West Van council meeting May 6 (Peter)
  • plan to have Heather, Peter and Donna do a dry run at the next meeting
  • Peter to contact WV Chamber of Commerce (lee Gabriel) to ask to present to them
• City Cycling book for councils (Antje/Jay)
  • 4 to West Van, 3 to City and 4 to DNV
• Bike to School on the North Shore
  • Transportation demand management
  • Use Pro D to distribute info
  • start at elementary schools
  • get teachers in schools that are bike riders
  • some schools takes kids for one-week trips
  • exclusion zones is an idea
  • use school newsletters to announce bike to school days
  • Antje will talk to Steph to see if there have been similar intiatives
  • send email to principals, mention fitness advantage of cycling
• Connect with other NS groups?
  • E.g. Cool North Shore, North Van Urban Forum
• North Shore bike map distribution
  • copies have been printed – Antje will bring some to the next meeting

• Draft letter to West Van council concerning review of Srategic Transportation Plan
  • Peter to send this evening and copy Yahoo group
  • Peter and a few others on the Working group will not be available so Peter wiil send a message encouraging others to go to the Council Special Meeting of the Whole at 1630 on 11 March

Infrastructure

• Second Narrows bridge update (Fiona)
  • meeting with manager of south coast region and operations manager and four cyclists
  • funding by end of March 20 million for widening the sidewalks and suicide barriers
  • designs to be tendered by end of March
  • width 2.5 m will and will do one side at a time
  • new railings will be higher 3m vertical 5" between vertical bars
  • working on changing Dollarton exit
  • announcement before election?
• Mountain Highway design in Lower Lynn (Antje)
  • sent letter asking for separated bike lane