Bikeboard January 2021

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Meeting tomorrow: Canceled! Tentatively rescheduled for next Thursday - in the field!
by Drew Gatlin 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Hello all, To shake things up a bit and have some fun we're gonna meet in the outside for our next meeting - tomorrow's looking cold and next Thursday is looking like a fine day (so far!). Other reasons for the postpone-ment: * If we meet next week we'll get back on the regularly scheduled bike board time (first Thursdays) * I haven't yet sent out follow ups from the previous meeting and I want to give ya some time to digest those * See attached "tasks" file for what I presented two weeks ago * See also attached suggested bike/ped projects that were recommended by the MMMPO Regional Plan - just to get your gears turning for infrastructure stuff * Minutes soon! If we can meet outside next week, I propose we meet at one of the various bicycle boulevards we're planning to install as part of our resurfacing project this year - and we can run through some design options and see how we'd like to implement some of the less prescriptive suggestions from the plan. Potentially with tactical urbanism props. Definitely with masks! Options: Cobun, Eastern, Madigan, Maple, Oakland Hope this message finds you warm and toasty! Drew Drew Gatlin Staff Engineer 389 Spruce Street, Room 24 Morgantown, WV 26505 Cell: (304) 719-7900 Office: (304) 284-7411 [cid:image001.png@01D6F4D8.786E82F0]<http://www.morgantownwv.gov/>

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WV Statewide long-range transportation plan
by Jessica Shuey 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

All – below is a link to do a quick survey for the state of WV regarding our statewide long-range transportation plan. This plan includes all modes of transportation and we would gladly welcome your thoughts and input from this survey. Additionally, if there is anyone or any organizations you would like to share this with, please feel free to do so. We value everyone’s input. Thank you. https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6025266/West-Virginia-2050-LRTP-Needs-Assess… Stay safe and have a wonderful weekend. Sincerely, *Jessica Shuey <http://linkedin.com/in/jessica-shuey-731a619a>* MMMPO & MCPC - Planner 304-284-7302 (Office) 304-709-4811 (Mobile) JShuey(a)plantogether.org (Work) JessicaDShuey(a)gmail.com (Personal) http://linkedin.com/in/jessica-shuey-731a619a *Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization (MMMPO):* www.plantogether.org https://www.linkedin.com/company/42408566 https://twitter.com/MonongaliaMpo https://www.instagram.com/morgantownmonongaliampo/ https://www.facebook.com/Morgantown-Monongalia-Metropolitan-Planning-Organi… morgantownmonongaliampo.tumblr.com *Bill Austin - *baustin(a)plantogether.org *Jing Zhang - *jzhang(a)plantogether.org *Monongalia County Planning Commission (MCPC):* https://monongaliacounty.gov/moncpc/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/42409676 https://twitter.com/MonongaliaC https://www.facebook.com/Monongalia-County-Planning-Commission-492734917403… monongaliac.tumblr.com *Andrew Gast-Bray - *agastbray(a)moncommission.com *Patricia Booth - *pbooth(a)moncommission.com *Monongalia County Floodplain:* https://monongaliacounty.gov/moncpc/about/floodplain/index.php *Michael A. Paugh - *mpaugh(a)moncommission.com

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Meeting: Tonight! Basic Agenda (no prework required) + video chat links
by Drew Gatlin 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

Friends, colleagues, advocates - We're meeting tonight, 6:30p-7:30p. Basic agenda is as follows: 1) Introductions 2) I will review a basic structure of desired tasks / roles I would consider appropriate / desireable from the city for a future bike board. We'll have time to chat about this. 3) I will give a quick review of the People for Bikes Bicycle Network Analysis, and request help in updating our area's OpenStreetMap data to help us get a more accurate and meaningful score 4) We'll chat quickly about the new Bicycle Friendly Community application 5) I'll ask for help in promoting our next meeting, in two weeks. Specifically, I would like some help in getting our social media (ugh, I know!) back up and running if anyone is interested in helping with that. Let's try to meet on Microsoft (ugh, I know!) Teams - no download should be required on your part (you should be able to participate using the browser of your choice). I sent an invite earlier - please let me know if you did not receive it. IF teams doesn't work, and only then, we'll fall back onto good ol' zoom, using below: Topic: Drew Gatlin's Personal Meeting Room Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/8286021906?pwd=OTUvekdyV1VlUVo0a21WN2tWSitFdz09 Meeting ID: 828 602 1906 Passcode: pedboard J. Drew Gatlin (he/his) Staff Engineer 389 Spruce St., Rm. 24 Morgantown, WV 26505 Office: (304) 284-7411 [forwards to mobile when in the field] Fax: (304) 284-7409 [cid:0ae4adfe-6fd2-4ed8-b828-f1eb5d12bef9]<http://www.morgantownwv.gov> Notice: Email is an inherently insecure means of communication. Any message sent or received by this email address is subject to regular review by third parties and, further, may be publicly disclosed through Freedom of Information Act<https://www.foia.gov/> requests.

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Bike Board Reformation!
by Drew Gatlin 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

Let’s try this Microsoft Teams platform to meet this evening ... it seems to work on all browsers (no download required! Reject it if it asks you!) and doesn’t clip out as much as the others do when multiple people are talking. I’ll have an emergency zoom backup if we can’t get it to work. ________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZGQ5OTBjMGQtNjM4My00…> Learn More<https://aka.ms/JoinTeamsMeeting> | Meeting options<https://teams.microsoft.com/meetingOptions/?organizerId=b5446bc3-a18b-4664-…> ________________________________________________________________________________

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November Meeting Recap + Fw: Tell Us About Your Progress to Make Biking Better in Your City
by Drew Gatlin 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

Hello friends of the Bike Board - Happy New Year! First off, I want to extend my deepest thanks to Andrew Hoover, Erin O'Brian, and Jessica Shuey - all new faces to these meetings - for taking your time and energy to participate in this newest incarnation of the bike board. Frank, Marilyn, Jonathan, Chip - always excellent to work with you. I'm excited for the future of this board and its activities! In our November 9thmeeting, we chose to meet every two weeks to help keep the momentum and avoid fatigue. We kept that meeting to a (relatively) scant 1.5 hours, and I promise that all future meetings will stick to that length or shorter (aiming for an hour these days). Thusly, I'd like to schedule a meeting for next week or the week after, and again one in the latter half of January based on our previously stated desire to meet every two weeks. Please fill out this doodle poll<https://doodle.com/poll/hmndbw2aai7tz94n?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link>, and please forgive the false start. I don't know about you all, but these past couple months have been a doozy and a half. Onward, through the fog! Random bits of good news: * The MMMPO has formed a working committee to develop and implement a bike/ped data collection program for our region. More to come on that. * Those groundbreaking youth initiatives we were discussing at the end of our last meeting are still simmering behind the scenes. If you want to know more you should attend the next meeting! * We are 95% likely to make the recently installed bike lane up Eighth St. from Beechurst to Grant a protected bike lane * We're working to include explicit bicycle facility improvements on about half of our paving list next year (which I could use your help reviewing!) Also, I wanted to forward the email below as one of my follow ups to our meeting. One of the first things I'll be doing in 2021 is completing this People For Bike's Snapshot - I'd like your help on it primarily by filling out and spreading around the Community Survey<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTpl2mpwd…> to help us get a proper review. Let me know your thoughts, and I hope you have a wonderful New Year. Best, Drew J. Drew Gatlin (he/his) Staff Engineer 389 Spruce St., Rm. 24 Morgantown, WV 26505 Office: (304) 284-7411 [forwards to mobile when in the field] Fax: (304) 284-7409 [cid:1eb3965c-62af-4b5a-93f9-b96451444b6e]<http://www.morgantownwv.gov/> Notice: Email is an inherently insecure means of communication. Any message sent or received by this email address is subject to regular review by third parties and, further, may be publicly disclosed through Freedom of Information Act<https://www.foia.gov/> requests. ________________________________ From: Kyle Wagenschutz <placesforbikes(a)peopleforbikes.org> Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 6:05 PM To: Drew Gatlin <jgatlin(a)morgantownwv.gov> Subject: Tell Us About Your Progress to Make Biking Better in Your City [https://d15k2d11r6t6rl.cloudfront.net/public/users/Integrators/16d61ce2-01c…]<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTpgXCj3-…> Greetings Drew, We're hard at work updating the PlacesForBikes City Ratings<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTpgXCj3-…> program to deliver new, improved ratings for 2021. Next year, our program will evaluate more than 600 U.S. cities and add comparisons to 100 international cities across Australia, Canada and Europe. To reduce year-to-year variability and emphasize the importance of building great and well-connected bike networks, PeopleForBikes is pleased to announce that our City Ratings program will undergo a number of improvements in 2021: * Cities will be scored in only two categories: Network and Community. Our Network analysis evaluates how well your city’s bike network connects people to everyday destinations while the Community score helps us understand local perceptions of biking in your city. * Ridership, safety and equity will be benchmarked, but those categories will no longer contribute to your city’s overall score. Ridership, safety and equity measures all improve when your bike network is strong throughout the city, so this data will become supplementary rather than scored as a primary factor. To help accomplish these changes, we've already made improvements to our Bicycle Network Analysis<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTppjkLJ9…> and launched our Community Survey<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTpl2mpwd…> to gather feedback from thousands of residents in your city. Now it's time to reach out to you, our city leaders, to complete a City Snapshot<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTplTPy5F…>. The City Snapshot is a 23-question survey about your current and planned street improvements. The information you provide will help us illustrate local progress, speaking to a broad audience about your city’s recent successes and plans for the future. Participation is completely voluntary, and will not influence your annual scores, but does help PeopleForBikes make accurate recommendations that will improve bicycling for everyone. We ask that you submit a City Snapshot for your city by January 29th, 2021. SUBMIT A CITY SNAPSHOT FOR YOUR COMMUNITY<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTplTPy5F…> To minimize the time it will take to review and provide answers online, here is a PDF version of the survey<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTpqckmAz…> for your reference. Questions about the PlacesForBikes City Ratings or City Snapshot? Email us<mailto:placesforbikes@peopleforbikes.org?subject=City%20Snapshot> to set up a time to chat. We look forward to receiving your completed City Snapshot. If you have received this email in error, please forward this message to the appropriate contact at the city. Best, Kyle Wagenschutz<mailto:kyle@peopleforbikes.org> VP of Local Innovation PeopleForBikes [Facebook]<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTpqJQESe…> [Twitter]<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTpkfMZIE…> [Instagram]<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTptGiyz-…> [YouTube]<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTpifo-2F…> PeopleForBikes P.O. Box 2359 Boulder, CO 80306 Unsubscribe<https://u8232924.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=-2FQ23vsRKP4fdjLiX7FqTphxVtOE…> © 2020 PeopleForBikes. All rights reserved.

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