Post by Bracken Van Ryssen on Mar 20, 2016 12:09:36 GMT
Minutes- Solihull Bicycle Campaign Monthly Meeting
10:00 AM - Saturday 19th March 2016, Happy Heart Café Olton.
1. Welcome and introductions.
2. Campaign update:
a. Bike West Midlands campaign Network.
b. Solihull cycle campaign map.
3. Next steps – finding cycling champions.
4. Discussion topic – how neighbourhood zones can be used to provide safe places for cycling, walking and play.
5. AOBs
1. We made the decision to move future meeting times half an hour later in the day to ensure that we don’t conflict with the café opening times and so people that arrive early can get inside as soon as possible.
2a. Bracken talked about the recent creation of a West Midlands wide cycle campaigners network formed primarily of Push Bikes (Birmingham), Wolves on Wheels (Wolverhampton), Coventry Cycle Campaign and the Solihull Bicycle Campaign. The Bike West Midlands Network has been formed as a response to the plans for a combined West Midlands authority and more specifically the creation of a central transport authority in the region. Two of the key aims being; to support regional-level cycling infrastructure and ensure that policing of road crime is treated with greater priority and severity. The Network is set to officially launch in the next few months.
2b. We discussed the layout and design of the cycle campaign map before moving directly into a discussion on neighbourhood zones (item 4).
4. Bracken guided the group through discussing the principle of the neighbourhood zones in reducing and slowing traffic and creating more liveable neighbourhoods, as well as the specific measures that can be used to achieve the aims. We discussed how bollards, planters and one-way systems can be used to discourage rat running and can often be extremely low-cost to implement. We also watched a video and discussed the role of temporary street closures in creating ‘play streets’ that can demonstrate to residents how their street can be changed for the better. We decided that a future goal of the cycle campaign would be to help a local community create a play street or street party and use it as an example to other neighbourhoods.
3. The idea of recruiting a cycle champion from each political party was discussed, allowing us to communicate directly with political parties and finding out what would assist them in shifting towards supporting cycling more actively.
Bracken to contact the relevant parties.
5. No AOBs came to light.
10:00 AM - Saturday 19th March 2016, Happy Heart Café Olton.
1. Welcome and introductions.
2. Campaign update:
a. Bike West Midlands campaign Network.
b. Solihull cycle campaign map.
3. Next steps – finding cycling champions.
4. Discussion topic – how neighbourhood zones can be used to provide safe places for cycling, walking and play.
5. AOBs
1. We made the decision to move future meeting times half an hour later in the day to ensure that we don’t conflict with the café opening times and so people that arrive early can get inside as soon as possible.
2a. Bracken talked about the recent creation of a West Midlands wide cycle campaigners network formed primarily of Push Bikes (Birmingham), Wolves on Wheels (Wolverhampton), Coventry Cycle Campaign and the Solihull Bicycle Campaign. The Bike West Midlands Network has been formed as a response to the plans for a combined West Midlands authority and more specifically the creation of a central transport authority in the region. Two of the key aims being; to support regional-level cycling infrastructure and ensure that policing of road crime is treated with greater priority and severity. The Network is set to officially launch in the next few months.
2b. We discussed the layout and design of the cycle campaign map before moving directly into a discussion on neighbourhood zones (item 4).
4. Bracken guided the group through discussing the principle of the neighbourhood zones in reducing and slowing traffic and creating more liveable neighbourhoods, as well as the specific measures that can be used to achieve the aims. We discussed how bollards, planters and one-way systems can be used to discourage rat running and can often be extremely low-cost to implement. We also watched a video and discussed the role of temporary street closures in creating ‘play streets’ that can demonstrate to residents how their street can be changed for the better. We decided that a future goal of the cycle campaign would be to help a local community create a play street or street party and use it as an example to other neighbourhoods.
3. The idea of recruiting a cycle champion from each political party was discussed, allowing us to communicate directly with political parties and finding out what would assist them in shifting towards supporting cycling more actively.
Bracken to contact the relevant parties.
5. No AOBs came to light.