Bike Board members,
Please find attached, a zip folder that contains the agenda for this
Thursday's 7-June, Bike Board meeting and documents to read-ahead to get
prepared. (To open any of the files in the zip folder, just double
click on the folder and then double click on any file in the folder. If
you've never used WinZip before, a window will probably open asking if
you want to download a free application to enable you to open the folder
and the files. Downloading and installing that is probably safe since
WinZip is pretty ubiquitous. If you can't open the folder or read the
files, please reply just to me and I'll send the files to you in
separate e-mail messages.)
Much has been happening since our last (April) indoor meeting. Several
of us had a fun May meeting riding around most of the city's 7 wards to
pioneer a route for "Bicycle Morgantown".
For this Thursday, Topic 5 on the agenda involves Sam Stone's request of
Dan Boroff to install Share-the-Road signs on the rail-trail and certain
local roadways. After the last Traffic Commission (TC) meeting, Terry
Hough, City Engineer and TC member asked me to arrange for the BB to
provide a response to his request. His request, and a comparison to our
Infrastructure Goal #1 Pilot Project #1 are included in the
read-aheads. I've asked Sam to join us for Thursday's meeting but
haven't received his response yet. I put this on the top of the agenda
because I think it presents a great opportunity to get more commitment
by the TC and the community to our recommendations.
Topic 6 on the agenda is the status of our Education committee
recommendations. As you know, I've twice offered to the TC to teach
them the LAB Road I course but failed to get commitment both times. A
couple TC members also objected to my collecting money for the course.
After the last TC meeting, Terry Hough told me to arrange with Ralph
Larue at BOPARC to have BOPARC arrange the course and collect the
money. I'll fill you in more on the details at our meeting but the
outcome is that I'm planning to deliver Road I once/month through BOPARC
starting this month. Tentative dates are: June 9-10, July 23-24, Aug
11-12, Sep 8-9 and Oct 13-14. (If I get more than 4 participants in any
delivery, I'll need some help from you Road I graduates and our other
LCI;) Also, I'm developing a 1-hour lecture for public officials.
Hough said the TC will probably attend either before or after their
regular monthly meeting. I attached a preliminary draft, called Intro
to Safe Cycling and welcome your critique.
We also have to replace our dearly departed members and I'd like to
discuss changing our meeting day as well as discuss where we are on
completing the LAB Bicycle Friendly Community award application.
It's going to be a busy meeting! I hope you'll all be there.
Frank