Meeting Agenda: February 3, 2011

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Attendance & Agenda

  • Welcome new members and guests
  • Additional business
  • Review January minutes (after discussion with Mainroad)

Education & Outreach

  • Guest from Mainroad Contracting: Real Charrois, General Manager

Submission prepared by TCH user group

Sweeping

The consensus is that a run down the highway shoulders with a street sweeper every 6 weeks would be ideal. The big culprits are construction vehicles ‘shedding’ debris on the highway which eventually gets pushed onto the shoulders – our main paths. Also, when there are vehicle accidents, the glass is usually just swept onto the shoulder. I am not sure who is usually responsible for that clean-up. There are some areas along the route that are worse than others:

Westbound:

> Westview on ramp to Lloyd Ave

> Keith Road overpass to Taylor Way exit

Eastbound:

> Cypress on ramp to the pedestrian overpass at Chairlift Road (the DWV trucks are coming from their works yard and there is always debris)

> 15th Street to the Taylor Way off ramp and the on ramp back onto the highway

> Taylor Way down to Klee Wyck

> from Lloyd Ave to Westview off ramp: there is a small asphalt pathway separated from the highway by concrete barriers that is overgrown and debris strewn.

Safety

There is one section of the route where the shoulder narrows to nothing for the better part of 30m and only then widens to about 0.5m for another 100m.

Travelling Westbound, when you approach the 15th Street Exit, the bicycle route sends you across the off-ramp. But when you cross the off-ramp you are then actually riding in the 3rd traffic lane until just before the 15th Street bridge deck where the shoulder widens again – see attached image.

The other option is not to ride the overpass, but to take the 15th Street exit, ride across Crosscreek Road and then merge back on the highway. This is a VERY unsafe option as traffic coming up and down Crosscreek Road is swift and the crossing is both blind and swift.

  • Delegation presentation to West Vancouver council (Peter)
  • Proposed North Shore cycling map (Antje)
  • Advocacy Advisory Committee recap (Jay)
    • 2011 Advocacy Planning document
    • Changes in Vancouver BAC direction and "Active Transportation"
    • Burnaby approved reduced speed limit trial on bike routes - strong on education
    • IWMB complement! MoT at next meeting 2/28?
    • Urbane Cyclist distribution?
    • Stipend to each committee approved - pending financial ability
  • 2011 monthly group rides (Antje)
  • JBAC and DNV (Heather/Jay/others)
  • VACC AGM March 26th (Jay)

Hot Spots & Issues

  • Low Level Road realignment (Heather)
  • Low level road Welch-Park Royal (Stephan)
  • Hwy 1 crossing at Lynn Valley Road (Jen/Dave?)
  • Off-ramp to 6th Street from new west-bound Capilano bridge (Peter)
  • Proposal for green shared lanes on Marine Drive 11-13th Streets, West Van (Peter)
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