City of Batavia Bicycle Commission Met Jan. 11.
Here is the minutes provided by the commission:
1. Roll Call: John Gamble, Amy Moore, Joanne Spitz, Dave Pedersen, Jenn Ress, Brett Garrett, Steve Ericksen, John Burnham, Troy Simpson, Randy Deicke, Jared Heck
Absent: Emil Jensen
2. Approve Minutes
3. Strategic Plan: BBC should give our input to the city council on the plan for bicycle and pedestrian improvements. We should come with specific ideas to accomplish plan goals. It is in draft form, so need to find out what meetings to attend. Randy will keep us updated, and we will formulate our plan to present. Please read the plan…Randy sent it and I can resend it. Include Encore project!
4. Bike Share: Bike share had 277 rides total between all 4 sponsors this season. New sponsors are looking to come on, including St. Charles, Shodeen, City of Geneva, Geneva Park District, Oswego, Montgomery. Koloni working on response to sponsors for this year. Elgin did not have a good season; someone disables their geo-tracking and long response time. Elgin used a different bike group, and it did not work this year. Laura is working to get NW on board as a sponsor/advertiser.
Zagster is out of business. This past season, there was approximately 1 ride per day per municipality.
5. Bikes For Batavia: Jen gave the report. Working on 2 bike requests. 27 bikes were donated to Rockford Catholic Charities. They did not want us to promote this. Work nights suspended. Have about 70 bikes and Evan continues to work on them so we will have a lot ready when the weather gets better. Evan got a bunch of tubes and tires. THANK YOU EVAN!
6. Bike safety on trail: Dave made a fantastic sign for the trail with our top 5 safety tips. He will talk to Allison Niemela at BPD to see if they will print and put on trail. They could add logo for BPD, or police info.
Want to put together list of ways to improve the trail or roads for cycling. A big one we want to promote is: Striped yellow line in middle of the bike trail. City and BPD can work together. The city did stripe area by food pantry.
MAKE A LIST OF THINGS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE DONE! SEND TO ME BY FEB 1st and John and Joanne will organize. I will compile a list. Examples: Connect new Prairie bike lane to Pine and Raddant. Road Diet, Signage to connect roads. Want 8-12 ideas total to present/work on.
Please look at Troy’s map; look at the routes marked in yellow. Green are done. Red in progress. Signage could connect a lot of the routes. Look for any errors. Look at bike plan too.
LINK: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/a525500978174629a29a9d20 3c94175e
Can make recommendations for: routes, signage for bikes using full lane, wayfinding signs, sharrows, major projects.
7. Newsletter from DOT: There is a grant from CMAP, for projects with physical barriers (railroads, rivers, bridges). Comments on areas in Batavia: railroad tracks near industrial park and Berkleye’s, Butterfield crossing at trail. Grant goes every 2 years.
8. Safe Streets Campaign: Jenn presented idea to do a social media campaign before Bike to School Day. Start in March or April. Cover a specific topic geared to cyclists or motorists. Culminate in May and have incentive to complete the Bike Safety Quiz. Steve and John made videos – should be able to reuse these; more trail oriented. Show right and wrong ways to do things, like how to wear a helmet. Jared offered to help. We will all review Jenn’s info. Can do video, graphics.
Examples: Week 1, helmet safety. Each day, 1 message. Add info to kiosks. 9. People for Grants: 2021 – review for ideas we can submit
Link: https://www.peopleforbikes.org/grant-guidelines
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