Bikeboard January 2019

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FW: Upcoming Public Meeting
by John Gatlin via Bikeboard 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

All, Please review the attachment and announcement below about a meeting to be held next Tuesday evening, Feb 5th, from 5:30-8PM. This is the first in a series of public input sessions to help inform the bike/ped strategic planning process. As we discussed in the bike board meeting last month, we hope that all current bike board members (past members are more than welcome too!) will identify at least one person whom they believe might be interested in serving on the board and bring that individual to this public input session. A final request: please print this flyer and post it at places you frequent or distribute it electronically as widely as possible. Let’s make sure this is a big turnout! Best, -Drew Drew Gatlin Staff Engineer 389 Spruce St., Rm. 24 Morgantown, WV 26505 Office: (304) 284-7411 Cell: (304) 719-7900 Fax: (304) 284-7409 [cid:image002.png@01D4B701.DB334E50]<http://morgantownwv.gov/> From: Bill Austin <baustin(a)labyrinth.net> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 11:37 AM To: Jenny Selin (C.C. Ward 4) <jselin(a)morgantownwv.gov>; statler4board(a)hotmail.com; gmmayor(a)wvgranville.com; wingsman1(a)aol.com; William Kawecki (C.C. Ward 2) <wkawecki(a)morgantownwv.gov>; 'Sean Sikora' <ssikora(a)moncommission.com>; dr.hawk(a)comcast.net; Ryan Wallace <rwallace(a)morgantownwv.gov>; jlgkd1970(a)gmail.com; dominick.claudio(a)gmail.com; ron.justice(a)mail.wvu.edu; 'David Bruffy' <Bruffy(a)busride.org>; Brian.E.Carr(a)wv.gov Cc: 'Rennetta McClure' <rmcclure(a)moncommission.com>; Paul Brake <pbrake(a)morgantownwv.gov>; gmmanager(a)wvgranville.com; Chris Fletcher <cfletcher(a)morgantownwv.gov>; Damien Davis <ddavis(a)morgantownwv.gov>; 'Richard Wood' <director(a)moncpc.org>; 'Tim Ball' <tball(a)mub.org>; 'Jeff Meadows' <jameadow(a)k12.wv.us>; WBOY News <news(a)wboy.com>; Dominionpost News Room <newsroom(a)dominionpost.com>; DA Newsroom <danewsroom(a)mail.wvu.edu>; sawdustinc(a)comcast.net; 'Maria Smith' <MariaSmith(a)busride.org>; heather(a)greatbritton.net; 'Christiaan Abildso' <cabildso(a)yahoo.com>; 'Chip Wamsley' <chipwamsley(a)gmail.com>; butch442(a)comcast.net; 'John E. Sneckenberger' <jsnecken(a)yahoo.com>; Fouad Shoukry <fouad.n.shoukry(a)wv.gov>; 'Skiles, Matthew H' <Matthew.H.Skiles(a)wv.gov>; 'William Oliver' <wdoliver(a)mail.wvu.edu>; 'Meadows, Donald R' <Donald.R.Meadows(a)wv.gov>; 'Mary Thompson' <mary.thompson4(a)mail.wvu.edu>; 'matthew' <crossnyc(a)hotmail.com>; 'Joe Patten' <Joe.Patten(a)mail.wvu.edu>; 'Clement Solomon' <csolomon(a)mail.wvu.edu>; donnywwv(a)comcast.net; 'Phil Goff' <philgoff(a)altaplanning.com>; John Gatlin <jgatlin(a)morgantownwv.gov>; glass.enviro(a)gmail.com Subject: Upcoming Public Meeting Policy Board Members, Please find attached a flyer for the upcoming meeting on pedestrian and bicycle issues to be held on February 5th. We would appreciate your assistance in publicizing this meeting. We will be scheduling additional public meetings including at least one in the Westover area in the near future. The MPO’s consultants will also be conducting the following outreach on February 5th and 6th. February 5th-Outreach to WVU Students table and posters in the Mountainlair Study Steering Committee Meeting-2-4 pm Mountainlair Blackwater Room City of Morgantown Outreach Meeting-Metropolitan Theater-5:30 until 8 pm. Short presentation at 6:30. February 6th-Stakeholder Meetings various times and locations Presentation and discussion with WVU SGA at Regular Meeting Thank you for your assistance in helping us to reach out to the community. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or if we may be of any assistance. Sincerely, Bill Austin, AICP Executive Director Morgantown Monongalia MPO 243 High Street Room 110 Morgantown, WV 26505 304-291-9571 Office 304-692-7225 Mobile “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” » George Bernard Shaw ” It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” » W. Edwards Deming

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Meet the Double Threats: Cyclists who code
by Jonathan Rosenbaum via Bikeboard 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

Positive Spin has been invited to present our software at this Meetup (Transportation Techies [1]) in Washington D.C. Many of their techie presentations would be of interest to the Bicycle Board. Here is an article about their last meetup: https://mobilitylab.org/2019/01/25/meet-the-double-threats-cyclists-who-cod… One of these days, but not immediately (busy with Positive Spins relocation), maybe some of us could schedule a day to carpool up. We could get really creative with such a trip, maybe plan it around a networking or lobbying effort, etc. -Jonathan Links: ------ [1] https://www.meetup.com/Transportation-Techies/

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Fwd: Public Meeting on Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan, February 5th, Metropolitan Theater
by Jonathan Rosenbaum via Bikeboard 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hi, All The Morgantown Monongalia MPO is working with Alta Consultant to develop a bicycle and pedestrian plan for the Morgantown metropolitan area. We will hold a public meeting for this plan on February 5th, from 5 pm to 8 pm. The location is at the Metropolitan Theater on High St, Downtown Morgantown. More information will come later. Regards, Jing Jing Zhang, AICP, PTP, LEED AP ND LCI #4855 Transportation Planner Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization 243 High Street Courthouse Rm. 110 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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Fwd: Partnering with the American Cancer Society
by J.D. Gatlin via Bikeboard 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Board, Please see the meeting announcement below to form a planning committee for a possible 2019 charity ride. Cheers, Drew ________________________________ From: Megan Pitrolo <megan.pitrolo(a)cancer.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 1:52 PM To: bikemorgantown(a)gmail.com Subject: Partnering with the American Cancer Society Hello! My name is Megan Pitrolo and I am the Community Development Manager for the American Cancer Society in Morgantown. I wanted to reach out to you because we are looking to implement a biking fundraiser in the Morgantown area this year. A few individuals who I have reach out to are interested in getting together to help plan it and I wanted to reach out to see if you would be interested in helping, as well. We are going to get together on Monday, January 28th at 6:30 at Terra Café so that we can get some ideas and plans in the works. I would love to hear back from you and get some of your insight, as well! All the best, Megan Megan Pitrolo<mailto:megan.pitrolo@cancer.org> Community Development Manager (304) 223.7378 | f: (304) 296.6172 ________________________________ American Cancer Society, Inc. | North Central Region 122 South High St Morgantown, WV 26501 cancer.org<https://www.cancer.org> | 1.800.227.2345 [https://www.mysocietysource.org/PublishingImages/EmailSig/ACSLogo.png]<https://www.cancer.org/> [donate3.cancer.org]<https://donate3.cancer.org/?campaign=eoycampaign2018&utm_source=outlook+sig…> This message (including any attachments) is intended exclusively for the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain proprietary, protected, or confidential information. If you are not the named addressee, you are not authorized to read, print, copy, or disseminate this message or any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately.

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Webinar Follow-Up: Another scheduled for Monday (Jan 28th), 3-5p
by John Gatlin via Bikeboard 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Hello all! Wonderful time yesterday viewing the FHWA Designing for Bicyclist Safety webinar<http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/training/webinars_FHWA_012319.cfm>. Alex and I had a good time hosting Marilyn, Frank, Christiaan, and Don Spencer in a somewhat impromptu bike board meeting and project status update. Check out this candid photo<https://twitter.com/jagatlin/status/1088079897145294850> of our gathering I posted on twitter, hah! Sorry I didn't get Marilyn in the picture too. We're hosting another webinar<https://cc.readytalk.com/registration/#/?meeting=3km908icsk4d&campaign=d6yq…> in the council chambers this coming Monday, January 28th. Thanks to Christiaan for tipping us off to this one: it's about their new playbook<http://playbook.t4america.org/> for "shared micromobility" (which includes those e-scooters we've been talking about for a while). It's put on by Transportation for America, a thinktank and policy group known for promoting ideas such as "smart growth" and multimodal access. Should be a good time. I hope you'll join us this Monday from 3-5pm! We'll probably finish up by 4:30, however, given that the webinar is only 1 hour long. Thanks, Drew Drew Gatlin Staff Engineer 389 Spruce St., Rm. 24 Morgantown, WV 26505 Office: (304) 284-1411 Cell: Office # forwarded when in the field Fax: (304) 284-7409 [cid:image003.png@01D4B308.55FD9760]<http://morgantownwv.gov/>

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FW: GoToWebinar - Designing for Bicyclist Safety, Tuesday 1p-2:30p in Council Chambers
by John Gatlin via Bikeboard 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Hello all! Just a reminder that you're invited to view this webinar with us Tuesday afternoon in the council chambers. Cheers, Drew Drew Gatlin Staff Engineer 389 Spruce St., Rm. 24 Morgantown, WV 26505 Office: (304) 284-1411 Cell: Office # forwarded when in the field Fax: (304) 284-7409 [cid:image001.png@01D4AF45.C6038270]<http://morgantownwv.gov/>

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Re: [Bikeboard] Fwd: PBIC Messenger: Upcoming Webinar on Designing for Bicyclist Safety
by John Gatlin via Bikeboard 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

All - Damien has kindly reserved the council chambers for us to use to watch this webinar. Anyone interested and free early afternoon on the 22nd is welcome to join us and watch it on the big screen. Best, Drew From: Bikeboard <bikeboard-bounces(a)bikemorgantown.com> On Behalf Of John Gatlin via Bikeboard Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2019 9:46 PM To: Frank Gmeindl <fgmeindl(a)gmail.com>; Bicycle Board <bikeboard(a)bikemorgantown.com> Subject: Re: [Bikeboard] Fwd: PBIC Messenger: Upcoming Webinar on Designing for Bicyclist Safety I'll double check but would love to have anyone who wants to watch the webinar get together in my office. Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Bikeboard <bikeboard-bounces(a)bikemorgantown.com<mailto:bikeboard-bounces@bikemorgantown.com>> on behalf of Frank Gmeindl via Bikeboard <bikeboard(a)bikemorgantown.com<mailto:bikeboard@bikemorgantown.com>> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 6:31 PM To: Bicycle Board Subject: [Bikeboard] Fwd: PBIC Messenger: Upcoming Webinar on Designing for Bicyclist Safety Bicycle Board Members, I think this webinar would be good for us to learn how the FWHA says bicycle infrastructure be designed. I registered for it. If you also plan to participate, please let me know. Perhaps we could find a location to participate together. Could be fun:) Frank Begin forwarded message: From: PBIC Messenger <blank(a)hsrc.unc.edu<mailto:blank@hsrc.unc.edu>> Subject: PBIC Messenger: Upcoming Webinar on Designing for Bicyclist Safety Date: January 8, 2019 at 10:04:42 AM EST To: <fgmeindl(a)gmail.com<mailto:fgmeindl@gmail.com>> Reply-To: PBIC Messenger <blank(a)hsrc.unc.edu<mailto:blank@hsrc.unc.edu>> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7ae385fc8506278c2e453ab5d/images/c3017f4c-993…] Webinar Announcement Upcoming Webinar on Designing for Bicyclist Safety Designing for Bicyclist Safety Tuesday, January 22, 2019 1:00-2:30 pm Eastern Time Register Here<https://pedbikeinfo.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ae385fc8506278c2e45…> Based on a course developed and taught by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), this webinar will provide an overview of roadway design strategies and tools to improve bicyclist safety and applicable countermeasures and designs to address safety issues. The session will provide context for considering bicyclists in the transportation system and introduce a range of facility types and treatments. Brooke Struve (FHWA Resource Center) will lead the webinar and spend time responding to questions from attendees. This Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Safety webinar will be delivered by VHB and the UNC Highway Safety Research Center through a contract to provide training and technical assistance to the FHWA-designated Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Focus States and Cities. ________________________________ PBIC offers free, public webinars approximately every month. To register for upcoming webinars and to access archived presentations, please visit www.pedbikeinfo.org/webinars<https://pedbikeinfo.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ae385fc8506278c2e45…>. Follow the PBIC on Twitter<https://pedbikeinfo.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ae385fc8506278c2e45…> and Facebook<https://pedbikeinfo.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ae385fc8506278c2e45…> and join the discussion [https://twitter.com/pedbikeinfo?lang=en]<https://pedbikeinfo.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ae385fc8506278c2e45…> [https://www.facebook.com/pedbikeinfo]<https://pedbikeinfo.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ae385fc8506278c2e45…> [http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/index.cfm]<https://pedbikeinfo.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ae385fc8506278c2e45…> ________________________________ Since its inception in 1999, PBIC's mission has been to improve the quality of life in communities through the increase of safe walking and bicycling as a viable means of transportation and physical activity. The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center is maintained by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center with funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. ________________________________ Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center 730 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Suite 300 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Add us to your address book<https://pedbikeinfo.us15.list-manage.com/vcard?u=7ae385fc8506278c2e453ab5d&…> Phone: 1.888.823.3977 Fax: 919.962.8710 www.pedbikeinfo.org<https://pedbikeinfo.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ae385fc8506278c2e45…> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, simply unsubscribe from this list<https://pedbikeinfo.us15.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7ae385fc8506278c2e45…>. View this email in your browser<https://pedbikeinfo.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ae385fc8506278c2e45…>

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New Recruitment Flyer... thoughts?
by John Gatlin via Bikeboard 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Board, Our City Manager Paul Brake has offered to help recruit for bike board members at tonight's neighborhood coordinating council meeting (7pm in city council chambers). Thanks Paul! If anyone is free around then and open to attending / answering questions, please do so! I downloaded the flyer that you all used to recruit me so many years ago and updated it with some new verbiage and info. Can you review and suggest design/content changes before we distribute further? Cheers, Drew Drew Gatlin Staff Engineer 389 Spruce St., Rm. 24 Morgantown, WV 26505 Office: (304) 284-1411 Cell: Office # forwarded when in the field Fax: (304) 284-7409 [cid:image001.png@01D4AC2B.C703C030]<http://morgantownwv.gov/>

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Fwd: Re: Morgantown Climate Action Plan
by Jonathan Rosenbaum via Bikeboard 12 Jan '19

12 Jan '19

I brought up this initiative at the the December Bike Board meeting. The Climate Action Team is working on their final version at their (nearly?) final meeting, which they will present to City Council. Does anyone have recommendations they would like included? Please study and comment on attached document. -Jonathan -------- Original Message -------- SUBJECT: Re: Morgantown Climate Action Plan DATE: 2019-01-11 13:07 FROM: James Kotcon <jkotcon(a)wvu.edu> TO: James Kotcon <jkotcon(a)wvu.edu> A (nearly?) final meeting of the Climate Action Team will be held Monday, Jan. 14 at 6 PM in Room G-138 South Ag Sciences (conference room). My goal is to finalize a list of recommendations to City Council to present at the Committee of the Whole meting Jan. 29. The attached document is where we are so far. I have copied a lot of stuff people sent me, but have not integrated it yet. The list on Page 2 is the most relevant. Please make recommendations as to which of these are priorities for the coming budget year, which are longer term, and which are actions that the City can incentivize and are worth doing for the residential/commercial sector, but may not be something City Council can directly impose. Feel free to expand the invitation to anyone else who might be interested. Hope to see you there, if not, send me comments. Jim Kotcon ------------------------- FROM: James Kotcon SENT: Sunday, November 25, 2018 8:41:02 PM SUBJECT: Fw: Morgantown Climate Action Plan The next meeting for the Climate Action Team in Monday, Nov. 26 at 5:45 PM. I did not get a room at the Library, so we will hold that in our conference room, G-138 South Agr. Sciences building, on the Evansdale campus. It is accessible a 5-minutes walk from the Engineering PRT station. Parking is free after 5 PM. The main agenda item is to refine and report progress on our list of proposed recommendations tot he City to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The attachment from Joe Kanofsky provides some valuable parameters for calculating emissions reductions. See thread below for more info. The ideas we discussed last week include: 1) Implement IAC energy efficiency recommendations. 2) Install LED street lights. (As Joe indicates below, this is probably not a money-saver, but it would more than meet the 28 % target for greenhouse gas reductions from that source.) 3) Provide incentives to malls and large parking areas on private/commercial sites to install LED lighting. 4) Acquire more efficient and cleaner City buses for MountainLine 5) Expand bus routes to reduce auto traffic. 6) Install Park-and-Ride lots to encourage commuters to use bus services. 7) Integrate bikes with buses and rail trail (this needs some clarification) 8) Install solar panels on City facilities. (My Baseline calculation indicates that to displace 28 % of the City's Municipal electric consumption would require 1986 MWh of solar generation. Assuming a capacity factor of 25 %, we would need approximately 900 kW of solar panels. Assuming $2.75 per watt, this would be approximately $2.5 million. The payback time on this is about 40 years, so this is not free.) 9 Have the City provide incentives for green building standards. 10) Convert the City fleet to fuel efficient or electric vehicles. 11) Provide education to City residents and in schools on ways to reduce carbon emissions. 12) Identify cleaner alternatives for small engines (leaf blowers, lawn mowers, etc.) More ideas are welcome, and we will need to prioritize these, as well as develop specific implementation recommendations. We also should think about how to quantify emission reductions to provide realistic estimates. Hope you can join us. Jim Kotcon ------------------------- FROM: Kanosky, Joseph P. <Joseph.Kanosky(a)NETL.DOE.GOV> SENT: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 1:29 PM TO: James Kotcon SUBJECT: RE: Morgantown Climate Action Plan Jim: My thoughts on reducing GHG emissions. Reducing GHG emissions is achieved by reducing energy use produced by fossil energy (coal, oil, natural gas). At NETL I am responsible for tracking GHG emissions by calculating the CO2 emissions from our electric and natural gas usage using the tables provided in the Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Tracking in Portfolio Manager document dated August 31, 2009. I have attached this document along with some sample calculations. To achieve the 26% reduction in CO2 will require reducing energy usage in the city buildings. We have some projects identified from Alex's audit work which I am not sure if all of these were implemented that we could achieve the 26% reduction. The LED street lighting we have been investigating may not save the city money but will contribute to reducing the CO2e by reducing the energy usage. We can calculate the projected CO2 reduction based on Alex's energy use reduction for her listed projects and for the LED lighting which Abby's report would have the projected energy savings per fixture. That would give us some idea of how achievable the 26% goal would be so that we could try to identify additional projects if that goal could not be met with Alex's project and the LED lighting. I have attached the Portfolio Manager paper with the kgCO2e/MBTU conversion factors for electric and natural gas. There are also additional conversion factors for indirect GHG emissions. I hope this information helps you with your climate action plan. FROM: James Kotcon <jkotcon(a)wvu.edu> SENT: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 7:33 PM TO: James Kotcon <jkotcon(a)wvu.edu> SUBJECT: Morgantown Climate Action Plan As you may recall, Morgantown City Council adopted the US Mayors Climate Agreement last year, pledging to meet the terms of the Paris Climate Agreement by reducing the City's greenhouse gas emissions by 26 % by 2026. Council asked the Morgantown Green Team to develop a Climate Action Plan, detailing how to achieve that goal. After several false starts, I want to get that back on track. We will meet Monday, Nov. 12, at 5:30 PM at the Morgantown Public Library in the Second Floor Conference Room. My goal is to propose a reduced set of actions as a menu of something like our "Top Ten Climate Recommendations" for consideration by the City. I will need your help to generate some realistic cost data and estimates of potential reductions in emissions, with the idea that Council and the City Engineering Department can identify the easiest options to choose. Please let me know if you can make this meeting. Alternatively, let me know if you are no longer interested and I will delete you from these messages. Jim Kotcon 304-293-8822 (office) 304-594-3322 (home)

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January Meeting (Loose) Agenda, December Minutes, new email address
by John Gatlin via Bikeboard 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Hello Board! You're among the first emails I'm sending from my new city email address - today was the first day of my new job as our city's Staff Engineer. Hurrah! As you'll read in the minutes from December and as I alluded to in my December meeting email, taking on this job necessitated a change in my relationship to the board. I will remain on the board as the city's representative and I will champion all our existing and future projects. Going forward, I would appreciate if you could send your bike board related emails to this new address: jgatlin(a)morgantownwv.gov For January, Chip and I's suggested agenda for Thursday is as follows: 6:30-7:30: Introductions, ripe bananas, and board membership recruiting / advertisement discussion 7:30-8:00: WVU Center for Service Learning & Community Outreach student utilization (we have begun a relationship with a multidisciplinary student group to assist us this Spring) 8:00-8:30: MMMPO Bike/Ped Plan updates Please find a draft of December minutes attached and edit / suggest changes as you see fit. Many thanks to our outstanding (and unfortunately departing!) secretary Brian Leary for putting these together. Best, Drew

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