Also forgot to add… the Heart and Stroke Foundation is also
looking of campaigning on this topic to city hall.
Also due this will be an election year here in Chatham-Kent thy
want to grill all candidates before the election. Then post if we have their commitments
or not so the public can be made aware.
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From:
ckcycle-bounces@lists.ncf.ca [mailto:ckcycle-bounces@lists.ncf.ca] On Behalf
Of randy.perdu@bell.ca
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 8:26 AM
To: ckcycle@lists.ncf.ca
Subject: Re: [CKcycle] UPDATE - CycleCK.ca Meeting thism Thursday and
need your input
Good job you guys!!! Thanks for your diligence and hard
work,hopefully the powers to be will listen!!!!
From:
ckcycle-bounces@lists.ncf.ca [mailto:ckcycle-bounces@lists.ncf.ca] On Behalf
Of Dan Brousseau
Sent: March 11, 2010 10:41 PM
To: Chatham-Kent Commmunity Cycling Group
Subject: [CKcycle] UPDATE - CycleCK.ca Meeting thism Thursday and need
your input
Hey everyone,
Just
back home.... what can I say about this eveing meeting...
There
was the topic of Bike Stands and more stands and more stands LOL.
Someone
was very adamant on them racks and their cost being too high even thus there
was a bidding process done through the city.
Seems
there is a $60,000 fund set asside for them and the way it is being approached
it bit by bit... (estimated cost for them is $170-$200 installed - little
expensive but good with labour)
The
Cycling Council of Chatham is looking at get an 8% of the poopulation to be
riding their bikes by 2020
They
are looking on meeting with company CEO's on promoting cycling to work.
There
is also about 1.5 million dollars for cycling in the CK area...
Some
disscussion as to where the bike grid would be at...
Now
this is looking at a 5 year plan but some of the following to be touched
in the Chatham area
Paths
or lanes on the following was disscussed;
McNaughton
from the College to Sandy
Keil
from Richmond to Prestancia project
Sandy
from the bridge to Gregory
Lacroix from Park Ave to Bridge
Queen from Indian Creek all the way downtown
There was a mention from Richmond and Bloomfield to
Riverview and then to Keil
St-Claire from Gregory to Walmart
As surprised as I was Grand between Keil to Sandy was not
there... Man that bit is ROUGH
Other topics where not realy touched due to the overly
extensive disscussion on bike rack cost/bidding... but I did bring it up to the
president to the Cycling Counsil (durring the bike rack crap) of the comments
from our group.
She stated she's in charge of also getting the stuff redy to
educate the puplic... the catch phrase that will be used is
Same Road
Same Rules
Same Rights
All are concerns that was brought is already on her list.
Now after the meeting was done I managed to speak to
James(Rides with us Sundays) who is part of the Cycling Counsil on
who they approche for the Police to enforce present laws.
Seems this was already done and there was a few Radio add by
the CK Police to let Cyclists know they should not be riding on the side walks.
To me this is not enforcing the law but seems they are also
putting in considerations the risks involved... Bad Cyclists/Bad Drivers
James is on my side with this... if the law is known and
enforced to everyone this will curb the bad habits of people... The CycleCK.ca
guy thinks that they working on this...
But working on it is useless as they are not enforcing the
laws that are already in place.
So seems there is a meeting with City Hall on the 16th and
James took the info on the Cycling Laws to throw the book at them
saying what the police are doing is a waste of time as the work is
already in place to enforce them.
So any how Matt and I did the best we can to represent
us as a group for the cycling community.
Now my last comment is a question to all... would you like
that I give them access to being able to email in to this list on any
updates that come through for the CK Cycling Project. Reason I ask is they
would like everyone to at least be on their emailing list by sending them your
email address, but the simplest way I think is giving them permission to post
as Non member to this list instead. Keeping your info private up to a point.
Let me know
Dan
ps Matt if I missed anything go ahead and add it. :-)