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Home My WebLink About2022-08-04 - BPAC Minutes 117 NW Lafayette Avenue, Bend, Oregon 97703 | P.O. Box 6005, Bend, OR 97708-6005 (541) 388-6575 bpac@deschutes .org www.deschutes.org/bpac MEETING MINUTES DESCHUTES COUNTY BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE Thursday, August 4, 2022, 12:00 to 1:30 pm Virtual Meeting Members Present: Dave Thomson, Chris Cassard, Rachel Zakem, Ann Marland, David Roth, David Green, Wendy Holzman, Neil Baunsgard, Mason Lacy, Ken Piarulli. Agency/Organization: Tanya Saltzman (Deschutes County – CDD), Robin Lewis (City of Bend), Kim Curley (Commute Options), Tobi Marx (City of Bend), Jovi Anderson (Bend MPO), Greg Bryant. Call to Order Meeting was called to order at 12:00 p.m. Introductions Attendees of the meeting introduced themselves and, if applicable, identified the organization they represent. Approval of Prior Minutes The July 2022 minutes were approved. Public Comment There were no public comments. Committee Business  Decide on format for September meeting – the next meeting will be in person at county offices  Officer elections at September meeting: Dave will no longer continue as chair; Chris will no longer continue as vice chair unless needed on a temporary/transitional basis. Please give some consideration to running for either position. Trip Report: SCAN Design Professionals Trip to Denmark and the Netherlands – Robin Lewis, City of Bend Robin provided an overview of her trip, which she introduced during the last meeting. Page 2 Overall research question: how can you make your city a sustainable, livable, people-friendly place? How can walking and bicycling bring a community together?  Slower pace/chance to smile and say hello/enables more space for plazas, parklets, playgrounds, schools. Bike system is separated and also in most cases wider  Getting people to ride: make it easy/no thinking; start in the neighborhood; amenities; lots of bike parking  Very few e-bikes (flat terrain)  Copenhagen: where are people driving and how can we change that? How to apply these lessons to Bend? TSP has been first step but opportunities to (bigger list in presentation doc):  Build out greenways  Protect neighborhoods from traffic  Food cart lots as amenities  Consider linear parks in unused ROW  Retrofit separation into existing bike lanes  Bike parking: require more with site plans Bend Bike Share Update – Tobi Marx, City of Bend Tobi provided an overview of the new Bird bike share program, which started in June 2022  140-170 bikes in daily operation  18-year-old minimum age (but this can’t really be enforced)  $1 to unlock; 45 cents per minute  13,000 rides from June 3-July 14  About 5000 unique riders  Approximately 4500 car trips avoided  2 fleet managers  479 daily commuters – exact same trip at same time every day (and this number has increased)  56 low income accounts Questions:  How do they track where a bike ends up and how to you get it back to a more “normal” intersection?  Bird monitors each bike via GPS (separate from main battery so won’t lose charge). General rule at beginning of the program was to let it go in order to see where the bikes end up; then later, if there is a single bike outside of core they focus on that. Ultimately Page 3 there is only so much that can be controlled. However, as they expand the preferred parking areas, they will obtain more compliance by giving more choices to users (for instance, four preferred parking locations on Galveston instead of one).  This is a dockless system, but they’re exploring geofencing to direct users to preferred parking; will be working with Google to use Street View to help verify  Chris brought up the optics of people who aren’t as supportive of bike share; perhaps the geofencing/preferred parking should be emphasized more TSP Subcommittee Update (Mason, Dave G.)  No update External Committee Reports COACT  Will be kicking off safety subcommittee at end of August; media messaging on safe driving Sisters Rural Trails stakeholders  Met yesterday; discussed survey that was done at end of July about what trails they’d like to see  Trail from Sisters to Black Butte Ranch was emphasized as priority as well as discussions on potential trail surfaces Bend MPO TAC  Met yesterday; primarily devoted to ODOT/rules for applying for transportation funding Bend Transportation Bond Oversight Committee:  No meetings lately  Purcell will be the next bond project Other Updates Commute Options:  New vanpools from Redmond to Sisters, as well as Brasada Ranch  Save the date for bike/ped summit: Sep. 29 at Redmond City Hall COIC/CET:  On August 1, CET switched schedules again: main goal was to improve on-time performance. Brought all 45-minute routes back out to 45-minute routes (from 30 minutes) due to weekday traffic.  Construction of new stops in Bend and Redmond should be completed by end of October  Recently tabled/surveyed for mobility hub survey Bend: Page 4  Applying for some safety grants Sisters:  City is working on safety issues, building a multi-use path from Hwy 242 along Brooks Camp Rd to Railway  Sisters Folk Festival: FYI (relating to previous discussion of the need for more bike parking) people ride bikes between venues and the festival has lots of bike parking to accommodate that Redmond:  BPAC participated in National Night Out on Tuesday, put on by Redmond Police Department to foster a good relationship between PD and community and promote public safety  Discussion about OR Community Paths program; window for letters of interest is open  Discussion about protected bike lanes (with bollards); difficult for street cleaning but curious about how it is in Bend Deschutes County  Staff is going through the consultant’s draft goals and policies for the TSP.  KAI has a rough draft for the bike/ped/transit portion of the Tumalo Community Plan (TCP). Meeting Adjourned at 1:37 pm Next Meeting Thursday, August 4 – 12:00 to 1:30 pm – In-person meeting, DeArmond Room, 1300 NW Wall Street, Bend