Capital District Transportation Committee
Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force
Record of Meeting on
Attendance: Jeff Gritsavage
(NYSDOT), Raj Malhotra (NYSDOT Region 1 Planning),
1.0 New Business
1.1 Group
Discussion—Green Lites (mountable curbs). Jeff Gritsavage
introduced the newest updates to the Green Lites
program. The new version addresses
comments received and better incorporates the Program into planning. Jeff raised the question of whether or not
mountable curbs should receive points in the Green Lites
scoring matrix. The Task Force
recommended that mountable curbs NOT receive points because of the reduced
safety for bicyclists and pedestrians.
Please contact Jeff at jgritsavage@dot.state.ny.us
with any questions or comments.
1.2 Bicycle Education Update – The 4 messages are being completed by the designer. A website domain (www.capitalcoexist.org) is being developed (it doesn’t work now, we’re still building it). CDTC is working with Lamar Advertising to put the messages on the sides of CDTA busses for 12 weeks in the spring/summer.
1.3 Mohawk
1.4
Local Project Updates
1.4.1 Albany Bicycle Master Plan—The Plan is complete and we’re waiting for the final copies from the consultant. The plan will be available on the CDTC’s website.
1.4.2
Route 50—The first public
meeting of the Route 50 Southern Gateway Study is scheduled for January 21st
at the Gideon Putnam in
1.5 TIP Update Process—Jason distributed a table showing the bicycle and pedestrian projects that were submitted for the 2010-2015 TIP update (those that were left off in error were later included on the table). The Planning Committee will start programming discussions at their January 6th meeting.
1.6 They just don’t get it—nothing to report
1.7 Scheduling of Jan-June 2010 meetings—The dates for the first half of 2010 are as follows:
January 12
February 9
March 9
April 13
May 11
June 8
1.8 Other New Business
1.3 Bike
Map update – The updated Mohawk Hudson Bike Hike Map will be available
December 1. Below is a distribution pie
chart from the last map printing.
1.4 NYSDOT/MPO
Bike Ped Coordinators Meeting -
Jason discussed outcomes of
the coordinators meeting in
1.5 Local
Project Update
1.5.1.1
City of
T.
Fabozzi asked if the Bicycle Master Plan will be adopted by the City Common
Council and K. Bronson responded that there is an interest in adopting it and
the city hopes it will be integrated into the Comprehensive Plan. T. Fabozzi
also commented that other communities should be able to use the elements of the
plan which are generic and illustrative of bicycle facility treatments.
1.5.2
NYS Route 50,
J.
Gritsavage shared his knowledge of plans and work that were done to connect
trails across Route 50, in the study area, while he worked at NYS OPRHP.
1.6 TIP
Update Process – CDTC is anticipating about $100 million and trying to
develop a program for the anticipated allocation. The Priority Network was
brought into question by the Planning Committee in how it may affect project
evaluation. There are few stand-alone
bike-ped projects and the set-aside is not known at
this time. Another issue which will be
reviewed by the Planning Committee is the cap on bike-ped
projects.
1.7 CDTC
Newsletter – This quarterly newsletter can be viewed on the CDTC website.
M. Lyons asked if the newsletter could be sent electronically via email to members or anyone interested. CDTC has tried to in the past but often has problems with other agency email filters and firewalls.
1.8 Pedestrian
Action Plan Training – Training is scheduled for November 17 and 18 at
NYSDOT Region 1 offices in
1.9 They
just don’t get it -- Nothing new was reported.
1.10
Other New Business – J. Gritsavage is looking for feedback
on mountable vs. vertical face curbing and other professionals’ experience with
these types of sidewalk projects.
2.0 Upcoming
Events
The next CDTC
Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force meeting is scheduled for