I took an action item from this Thursday’s (9/1) BB meeting to distribute the Pedestrian Safety Board’s 8/29 meeting minutes. They are attached.
Drew attended the meeting and discussed many PSB activities that intersect with BB activities. For example:
The PSB is alarmed by bicycling on sidewalks downtown and has particularly asked the BB to get Jimmy Johns delivery cyclists under control. See minutes for more.
Dan Shook is heading up a WVU Safe Communities project that is intended to …
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The PSB is planning to meet with City Council to discuss pedestrian and bicycle priorities with new City Manager candidates.
WVU installed a sign in the middle of the future Mon Blvd Bicycle Climbing Lane without getting permission from anybody.
Amy Boggs with the Governors Highway Safety Program funded the printing of 3,000 ped safety flyers.
We need to comment on the proposed alternatives for the Collins Ferry, University Av., Baldwin St. intersection. Go to http://www.plantogether.org/#!ongoing-construction-projects/lgou7 <http://www.plantogether.org/#!ongoing-construction-projects/lgou7>
We need to help Jing make the new Metropolitan Transportation Plan (formerly known as the Long Range Transportation Plan). Go to http://www.plantogether.org/#!2016update/jcxrm <http://www.plantogether.org/#!2016update/jcxrm>
Paving is scheduled to be complete by the end of October (so when will we see the sharrows?)
Frank
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Here is the attachment:)
Jing Zhang, AICP, PTP, LEED AP ND
LCI #4855
Transportation Planner
Morgantown Monongalia
Metropolian Planning Organization
82 Hart Field Rd Suite 105,
Morgantown, WV 26505
www.plantogether.org
864.207.0749 (cell)
304.381.4363
" Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
love." -- Mother Teresa
From: Jing Zhang [mailto:tranplan@labyrinth.net]
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 9:52 AM
To: 'Bicycle Board'…
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Cc: 'baustin(a)labyrinth.net' < >
Subject: Survey--MPO Metropolitan Transportation Plan Update
Hi, Bicycle Board Members,
Please consider taking a survey for the Metropolitan Transportation Plan
Update. Your input is very important for the MPO to understand the need and
preference of the community. The link for the survey is
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MTPUpdate
The survey is also available at the MPO's website, www.plantogether.org
<http://www.plantogether.org>
We would appreciate it if you could share this information with anyone who
may be interested.
The PDF version of the survey is attached.
Thanks! Have a nice Labor Day weekend!
Jing
Jing Zhang, AICP, PTP, LEED AP ND
LCI #4855
Transportation Planner
Morgantown Monongalia
Metropolian Planning Organization
82 Hart Field Rd Suite 105,
Morgantown, WV 26505
www.plantogether.org <http://www.plantogether.org>
864.207.0749 (cell)
304.381.4363
" Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
love." -- Mother Teresa
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Hi, Bicycle Board Members,
Please consider taking a survey for the Metropolitan Transportation Plan
Update. Your input is very important for the MPO to understand the need and
preference of the community. The link for the survey is
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MTPUpdate
The survey is also available at the MPO's website, www.plantogether.org
<http://www.plantogether.org>
We would appreciate it if you could share this information with anyone who
may be interested.
…
[View More]The PDF version of the survey is attached.
Thanks! Have a nice Labor Day weekend!
Jing
Jing Zhang, AICP, PTP, LEED AP ND
LCI #4855
Transportation Planner
Morgantown Monongalia
Metropolian Planning Organization
82 Hart Field Rd Suite 105,
Morgantown, WV 26505
www.plantogether.org
864.207.0749 (cell)
304.381.4363
" Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
love." -- Mother Teresa
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Cool idea, I am out of town or I would join you!
Jenny Selin
Cell 304-685-6569
On Sep 1, 2016, at 10:52 AM, Frank Gmeindl via Bikeboard <bikeboard(a)bikemorgantown.com> wrote:
Hello Board and observers,
First, I mentioned last week that the League has devised a new method of
local review that is anonymous and less of a commitment. We can choose how
we'd like to distribute this link. Please check it out here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MorgantownBFC
Any person who spends time in our community, including folks who worked on
the application, can submit this survey. The League says we will not be
penalized or rewarded for a large number or small number of …
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only stand to gain from more diverse input than we usually receive. They
will likely use quality feedback to choose an award level, however. "This
survey is to provide context while we are deciding an award level and to,
hopefully, provide valuable feedback to you in your community’s Report Card
and Feedback Report."
Also, we've got a meeting next week as per usual. Please review the
attached agenda and open action item list. We're shaking up the meeting
format a bit this month -- there's less than an hour and a half of time
scheduled. We will at least begin the process of budgeting our
discretionary funds for 2016 at this meeting -- please think on this and
come with specific thoughts on how we should appropriate the funds.
Ride on,
Drew
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Movers and shakers of cycling in Morgantown,
I want to extend my deepest gratitude to all of you. Whether or not you filled in boxes and wrote verbiage for the document submitted on Tuesday, your past and present dedication and enthusiasm for cycling in our town gave us the content we needed to present a strong application for the League's 2016 bicycle friendly community award. This was truly a group effort!
I have mentioned before that we need local reviewers to both vet the application, as …
[View More]well as to give the League a sense of cyclists away from those of us who fill out the boxes. If you weren't part of the document creation process and you have some time over the next few weeks, OR if you know of a few other folks you wouldn't mind asking to participate in the review process, please consider signing up at the link provided in the email below. The deadline is tomorrow at midnight. I don't think the time requirement will be very demanding, but I am not privy to the process.
There is also an informal review process described below. I plan to distribute the link widely throughout the community, and I'll ask your help in dissemination when the time comes.
Thanks again to everyone, and thanks especially to my last minute application stitcher-uppers: John Whitmore, Derek, Chip, and Frank.
Onward and forward!-Drew
_____________________________
From: Ken McLeod <ken(a)bikeleague.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2:57 PM
Subject: Bicycle Friendly Community - Next Steps & Public Survey
To: <bikemorgantown(a)gmail.com>
Dear [Applicant],
Thank you again for applying to the Bicycle Friendly Community program! Now that the Fall 2016 BFC Application deadline has passed, our review process is officially underway. To confirm, we have received the following application(s) from you:
00344 - Morgantown
In the past we limited local feedback to local reviewers who signed up at bikeleague.org/content/become-local-reviewer. We will continue to work with local reviewers and local advocates to gain an understanding of your community. All people who want to be local reviewers should sign up by the end of the week, August 19th at Midnight Pacific Time.
In addition, this round we are trying a new more public local review process. Next week we will send you a link for a survey open to the public so that members of the public can give feedback without signing up to be local reviewers. We believe this more inclusive feedback will help us better understand your community and provide valuable insights to you through the BFC feedback it generates. Responses to that survey will be due by September 12th at midnight Pacific Time.
We do not plan to publicize this public survey for each community and it is up to you to choose how you would like to distribute the survey. Please take some time in the next week to think about how you would like to distribute that survey to the public.
We currently expect that our award announcement will be made in early-to-mid November. Your community will be informed of the award decision at least one week prior to the public announcement.
Please feel free to contact us at bfa(a)bikeleague.org if you have any questions.
Best regards,
The Bicycle Friendly Community team
League of American BicyclistsThis email is a service from League of American Bicyclists.
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Hi everyone,
Here are draft minutes from our August 4 meeting. Take a look and see what
we volunteered you for! (just kidding)
Please let me know if you have any changes or corrections.
Thanks!
Christina
Here's the message about Daniel Shook that I said at the BB meeting I would
forward to the BB.
Frank
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Shook, Daniel* <daniel.shook(a)hsc.wvu.edu>
Date: Thursday, August 4, 2016
Subject: FW: DISTRACTED BEHAVIOR TASK FORCE - Consensus Statement FINAL
To: "Abildso, Christiaan" <CGABILDSO(a)hsc.wvu.edu>, Amy Pratt <
alpratt(a)mix.wvu.edu>, "Amy.M.Boggs(a)wv.gov" <Amy.M.Boggs(a)wv.gov>, Andrew
Denny <adenny1(a)mix.wvu.edu>,…
[View More] Barbara Watkins <barb(a)downtownmorgantown.com>,
Bill Austin <baustin(a)labyrinth.net>, Bill Kawecki <wm_a_kawecki(a)comcast.net>,
"Coben, Jeffrey" <jcoben(a)hsc.wvu.edu>, "Cohen, Stanley" <
Stanley.Cohen(a)mail.wvu.edu>, "Coole, Charles" <ccoole(a)hsc.wvu.edu>, "
ddavis(a)morgantownwv.gov" <ddavis(a)morgantownwv.gov>, Debbie Cain <
sunnybeewv(a)gmail.com>, "Denzine, Gypsy" <Gypsy.Denzine(a)mail.wvu.edu>, Don
Spencer <dspencer36(a)comcast.net>, Dwight Harshbarger <
dwight.harshbarger(a)gmail.com>, Ella Belling <ella(a)montrails.org>, Emily
Vasile <emilyvasile(a)gmail.com>, Frank Gmeindl <fgmeindl(a)gmail.com>, Frank
McGhee <femcghee(a)comcast.net>, George Lilley <mgranlil(a)frontier.com>,
"Hand, Gregory" <gahand(a)hsc.wvu.edu>, "Hartsell, Kimberly" <
Kim.Hartsell(a)mail.wvu.edu>, Jan Derry <jderry(a)nwvcil.org>, Jay Redmond city
council 6th ward <theredmonds(a)comcast.net>, "jenmac71(a)yahoo.com" <
jenmac71(a)yahoo.com>, Jennifer <jselin(a)hotmail.com>, Jessica Bladow <
jbladow(a)ssc-llc.com>, Jimmie Simmons <jsimmons2642(a)yahoo.com>, "
jingzhangaicp(a)gmail.com" <jingzhangaicp(a)gmail.com>, Jonathan Rosenbaum <
jr(a)wvcompletestreets.org>, "Jones, Emily" <Emily.Jones(a)mail.wvu.edu>,
Kathryn Long <klong6(a)mix.wvu.edu>, Maria Smith <mariasmith(a)busride.org>,
Matt Cross <crossnyc(a)hotmail.com>, Mike Fike <micynster(a)gmail.com>, "Misra,
Ranjita" <RAMISRA(a)hsc.wvu.edu>, "mmccabe(a)morgantownwv.gov" <
mmccabe(a)morgantownwv.gov>, Morgantown Pedestrian Safety Board <
walkmgw(a)yahoo.com>, Nicole Gauthier-Schatz <nicolegauthierschatz(a)gmail.com>,
"Nutter, Roy" <Roy.Nutter(a)mail.wvu.edu>, "Pape, Olivia" <
olivia.pape(a)hsc.wvu.edu>, "Pierskalla, Chad" <cpierska(a)wvu.edu>,
"Reger-Nash, Bill" <wreger(a)hsc.wvu.edu>, Regina Mayolo <reginam(a)verizon.net>,
Ryan Simonton <rsimonton(a)morgantownwv.gov>, "Rye, James" <
Jim.Rye(a)mail.wvu.edu>, Saba Ashfaq <sashfaq(a)mix.wvu.edu>, Samantha Shawley <
sshawley(a)mix.wvu.edu>, Sarah Bias <sarahbias(a)gmail.com>, "Shook, Daniel" <
daniel.shook(a)hsc.wvu.edu>, "Stout, Margaret" <Margaret.Stout(a)mail.wvu.edu>
Good morning!
First, I want to thank the Pedestrian Safety Board for allowing me to
become a part of a great endeavor! Since I’ve gotten older with more aches
and pains running is not on my list of activities I can do. I’ve adopted
walking which provides many of the health benefits of running. Thank you!
As the director of the WVU-Greater Morgantown Safe Communities Initiative
one of my major efforts will be to connect all of the tremendous efforts in
our community for the purpose of keeping us safe and healthy! My purpose is
not to eliminate or render ineffective any group, individual or effort
attempting to improve our safety and wellbeing. On the contrary, I believe
our collective strengths make us stronger. I’ve primarily coached team
sports in my life and the teams I could blend individual strengths together
as one were usually more successful.
The reason I’m rambling on about this is because during my first meeting
with the Pedestrian Safety Board I became aware that some of our efforts
were being addressed by other groups as well. I’m sharing the email below
because as the WVU-Injury Control Research Center and Safe Communities
Initiative held the Distracted Behavior Task Force meeting others such as
the Pedestrian Board had the same vision. Also, I discovered today that WVU
has a program, Heads Up! WV, that appears to be pursuing pedestrian/cyclist
safety.
So, as I continue forward in my role I think it would be neat if somehow
all of us wanting to make a difference in our community can find an
efficient way to pursue our common vision together. In August I have
scheduled a WVU-Greater Morgantown Safe Communities Advisory Committee.
I’ve attempted to identify individuals in the community that represent
focus areas in a safe community network. In September, I plan to convene a
much larger meeting of all of the partners that had previously collaborated
on the Safe Communities Initiative which led to our national accreditation.
Maybe at that time we can figure out how to work together to achieve the
same goal.
I had been in Morgantown and on this job for a very short time when we went
through the accreditation process. Prior to the beginning of the last day
of the accreditation team’s survey of us I had breakfast with Dr. Lee
Smith, Director of the Mon County Health Department. I shared with him that
I’ve seen many silos, pockets of excellence in the community. We just
needed to get everyone connected. He smiled and said that those were
”cylinders of excellence”! We chuckled and then agreed we need to get those
cylinders in the same engine to move us forward.
I trust you agree! Take care!
*[image: Dansign]*
*Daniel S. Shook, Ph.D*., Director
The WVU Greater Morgantown Safe Communities Initiative
WVU Injury Control Research Center
P.O. Box 9151
Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-9151
*Office: 304-293-8408*
*Cell: 614-448-7168*
[image: SCA_West Virginia University Greater Morgantown_logo_4C]
*From:* Shook, Daniel
*Sent:* Thursday, August 04, 2016 10:26 AM
*To:* 'Ed Preston' <epreston(a)morgantownwv.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','epreston(a)morgantownwv.gov');>>; Harold
Sperringer (hsperringer(a)morgantownwv.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','hsperringer(a)morgantownwv.gov');>) <
hsperringer(a)morgantownwv.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','hsperringer(a)morgantownwv.gov');>>; 'Matt
Solomon' <msolomon(a)morgantownwv.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','msolomon(a)morgantownwv.gov');>>; 'Bob Roberts'
<Bob.Roberts(a)mail.wvu.edu
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Bob.Roberts(a)mail.wvu.edu');>>; P. M. Palmer (
ppalmer(a)monsheriff.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ppalmer(a)monsheriff.com');>) <
ppalmer(a)monsheriff.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ppalmer(a)monsheriff.com');>>; David Wilfong (
dwilfong(a)monsheriff.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dwilfong(a)monsheriff.com');>) <
dwilfong(a)monsheriff.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dwilfong(a)monsheriff.com');>>; Damien Davis (
ddavis(a)morgantownwv.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ddavis(a)morgantownwv.gov');>) <
ddavis(a)morgantownwv.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ddavis(a)morgantownwv.gov');>>; Devin E. Barger
(devin.e.barger(a)wvsp.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','devin.e.barger(a)wvsp.gov');>) <
devin.e.barger(a)wvsp.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','devin.e.barger(a)wvsp.gov');>>; Amy Boggs (
Amy.M.Boggs(a)wv.gov <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Amy.M.Boggs(a)wv.gov');>) <
Amy.M.Boggs(a)wv.gov <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Amy.M.Boggs(a)wv.gov');>>;
Lisa Hall (lhall(a)cityofclarksburgwv.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lhall(a)cityofclarksburgwv.com');>) <
lhall(a)cityofclarksburgwv.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lhall(a)cityofclarksburgwv.com');>>; Jolene
Willard (jolene.c.willard(a)wv.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jolene.c.willard(a)wv.gov');>) <
jolene.c.willard(a)wv.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jolene.c.willard(a)wv.gov');>>; Sayres, Sheena <
SSAYRES(a)hsc.wvu.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','SSAYRES(a)hsc.wvu.edu');>>;
Cink, Jane <jycink(a)hsc.wvu.edu
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jycink(a)hsc.wvu.edu');>>; 'Julie Merow' <
jemerow(a)mix.wvu.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jemerow(a)mix.wvu.edu');>>;
Tyler Brewster (tjbrewster(a)mix.wvu.edu
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tjbrewster(a)mix.wvu.edu');>) <
tjbrewster(a)mix.wvu.edu
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tjbrewster(a)mix.wvu.edu');>>; Robert Bossarte (
rbossarte(a)hsc.wvu.edu
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbossarte(a)hsc.wvu.edu');>) <
rbossarte(a)hsc.wvu.edu
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbossarte(a)hsc.wvu.edu');>>; Rudisill, Toni <
trudisill(a)hsc.wvu.edu
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','trudisill(a)hsc.wvu.edu');>>; Linn, Herb (
hlinn2(a)hsc.wvu.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','hlinn2(a)hsc.wvu.edu');>) <
hlinn2(a)hsc.wvu.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','hlinn2(a)hsc.wvu.edu');>>;
Dave Harshbarger (harshbargerd(a)wvumedicine.org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','harshbargerd(a)wvumedicine.org');>) <
harshbargerd(a)wvumedicine.org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','harshbargerd(a)wvumedicine.org');>>; Eldon
Callen (eldonc(a)msn.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','eldonc(a)msn.com');>) <
eldonc(a)msn.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','eldonc(a)msn.com');>>; Mayor
Marti Shamberger (mshamberger(a)morgantownwv.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mshamberger(a)morgantownwv.gov');>) <
mshamberger(a)morgantownwv.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mshamberger(a)morgantownwv.gov');>>; Mayor
Patty Lewis (gmmayor(a)wvgranville.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gmmayor(a)wvgranville.com');>) <
gmmayor(a)wvgranville.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gmmayor(a)wvgranville.com');>>; Diane Rogers (
MonCountyPFS(a)gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','MonCountyPFS(a)gmail.com');>) <
MonCountyPFS(a)gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','MonCountyPFS(a)gmail.com');>>; Barbara
Fleischauer <friendsofbarbara(a)gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','friendsofbarbara(a)gmail.com');>>
*Subject:* DISTRACTED BEHAVIOR TASK FORCE - Consensus Statement FINAL
Hello everyone!
Because I’ll be leaving to head to Chicago for the national conference for
Safe Communities America I wanted to forward this document which is a
product of meeting in July. Moving forward I will update all task force
participants as to activity directed at reducing the impact of distracted
behaviors on injuries and deaths in our city, county and state. We will
stay on this….we owe to the young child, young mother or father that may
never come home because a preventable death or injury occurred because of a
selfish act. We can really LIVE without our phones because others will LIVE
without us using our phones!
Thank you for your participation and feedback on the development of the
consensus statement!
*[image: Dansign]*
*Daniel S. Shook, Ph.D*., Director
The WVU Greater Morgantown Safe Communities Initiative
WVU Injury Control Research Center
P.O. Box 9151
Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-9151
*Office: 304-293-8408*
*Cell: 614-448-7168*
[image: SCA_West Virginia University Greater Morgantown_logo_4C]
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