Doug Kelley
East Ave 4 / 3 Conversion
Brendan Ryan - Original Plans were for 3 11' lanes with 3.5' shoulders "for bikes". Advocating for 3 10' lanes with 5' bike lanes instead.
DOT proposed 2 10' travel lanes, 11' turn lane, and 4.5' shoulders. They claim anything less than 11' center lanes are never used, and that they feel it would be unsafe to do so.
A meeting was held to discuss the alternate plans. Lots of voices at the table so hard to have a deep discussion. Letters of support have been sent from the town supervisors of Brighton and Pittsford as well as Brighton's town board.
DOT has been sent a collection of examples where 10' center turn lanes are used in Monroe county.
Rich Desarra - DOT will exam all turning lanes. Most of their turn lanes are 11' or 12', but there are 10' out there.
Rich - There are a lot of missing sidewalks.
Brendan Ryan - There is a TAP grant to fill in the sidewalk grants in 2019
Ride of Silence
Ride of Silence is a worldwide ride to pay respect to those who have been injured or killed by a motorist. Ride two-by-two in complete silence. Kind of like a funeral procession.
New volunteer to run the ride of silence Kecia McCullough
Wednesday May 16th, during Bike Week.
This year the ride will be in the City of Rochester. Potential route has been submitted to the City of Rochester and some tweaks need to be made.
Mayor Warren is completly on board with the ride. The city will donate police escort.
The city will promote the ride along with bike week activities.
Kecia reached out to the RBC board to insure the ride.
Not officially green lit, but yellow going green.
Kecia Looking for a trumpet player who can play Amazing Grace. Someone who does not want to ride.
Trying to start and end the ride at Parcel 5. City has not committed to that yet as they hope to sell the property.
Fall back site will be the parking lot at Exchange & Court.
A call for volunteers will be forthcoming.
Biking on Sidewalk
Post in the Urban Phoenix blog encouraging people to bike on the sidewalk. However there is research that shows biking on the sidewalk causes more accidents.
The post did not get many likes on Facebook and does not seem to have gained much traction. The hope is that interest will die out.
Insurance Renewal
Insurance is up for renewal.
Excellus Meeting
Scott will be meeting with Excellus to get funding for a part time person for the cycling. Also reaching out to Independence Insurance, which funds staffers for Go Bike Buffalo.
There is research that shows an healthcare cost ROI for money invested in bike shares and bike trips.
Evan Lowenstein
Assistant Market Supervisor at Public Market, and coordinates many of the events at the public market.
Public Market is in the middle of a dense urban neighborhood. Their footprint is constrained by the surrounding neighborhood. The public market gets complaints about the lack of surface parking.
There is no place for more surface parking. A parking garage would be to expensive.
Growing the market will require a better multi-modal transportation network in the city.
The public market has significantly more bike parking, but that capacit was filled up quickly. They are working on building more.
The market has a program that incetivizes people to bike to the market. They have 325 registered riders. The market is trying to recruit other buisnesses to join this program. Full Moon Vista offers a discount to registered riders on cargo gear.
The market has 2 zagster stations. The public market has reached out to Zagster to support phase 2 of the bike share system.
There is a bicycle and pedestrian path connecting the Market to Scio St.
The market does a "bike in" movie, which will continue in 2018.
The city is going to supply the market with bike racks that can be placed in the small parking lot inside the Union St. Gate.
There will be a bike boulevard designed and deployed in 2018. It will go through the grounds of the market.
A bicycle cafe concept is in the works.
Bike Index
Bike Index is a non-profit with which someone can register their bicycle. If police recover a bike they can check the index number against the Bike Index and get it returned to the owner.
Two Day Bike Tour to Niagara Falls
Camp overnight in Medina and 2nd day to Niagra Falls. Then return by train/car/bike/whatever.
Alternative is to meet a group from Go Bike Buffalo in Medina.
Bike Share Workgroup
Mike Governale from Reconnect has reached out for volunteers to fundraise for this year's Bike Share funding.
Zagster
Zagster has launched their Pace system. Nationwide dockless system. Bikes can be left at any public bike rack for no fee when the rider is done.
Rochester Women's Bike Festival
Women's only event in June (potential days 2nd or 9th) on practical biking. Events on how to buy a bike, what to wear, how to ride, etc.
Rochester Prix
Will be held on May 19th this year (Bike Week).