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OUTLINE <br />Paul Guthrie: Are the county schools involved? 106 <br />107 <br />Heidi Perry: Let’s Go NC is the curriculum they use. 108 <br />109 <br />Paul Guthrie: Has anyone had any education with motorists? 110 <br />111 <br />John Rees: In a perfect world, we would spend more time with driver’s education. 112 <br />113 <br />Jeff Charles: The real target here is not the young driver but the 18-plus aged drivers. Why don’t we get auto 114 <br />dealers involved to hand out pamphlets when they sell cars? 115 <br />116 <br />Abigaile Pittman: What about DMV? 117 <br />118 <br />Jeff Charles: Certainly DMV but this is a state problem. The bigger issue is about pelotons. We still need to 119 <br />target the older drivers first. 120 <br />121 <br />Heidi Perry: We do traffic skills classes for riders. Two courses of action, one is for transportation planners and 122 <br />the other is geared towards law enforcement officers. The dealer suggestion is great. 123 <br />124 <br />Art Menius: The kids in driver’s education today can be reached in class because they learn to drive with bikers 125 <br />today, which is common. 126 <br />127 <br />David Laudicina: Aren’t most car dealers in Orange County? 128 <br />129 <br />Heidi Perry: Car rental places? 130 <br />131 <br />Jeff Charles: Many cyclists do 4,000 miles per year but there is not enough documentation of the incidents. 132 <br />133 <br />Paul Guthrie: We need broad based education. We may want to think about ways and vehicles we can build 134 <br />the outreach for the people we have been talking about. Send them to Abigaile to share with all of us. 135 <br />136 <br />Alex Castro: We’re on that path. 137 <br />138 <br />Paul Guthrie: How do we handle the unfocused problem for the BOCC that often our roads are inadequate? 139 <br />140 <br />John Rees: Actually the roads in Orange County are very adequate. Maybe it would be better to say cyclist and 141 <br />motorist coexistence is inadequate. We need better recording of incidents. 142 <br />143 <br />Tom Magnuson: What about crowd sourcing? 144 <br />145 <br />John Rees: The new thing is a GPS type of documentation. 146 <br />147 <br />Jeff Charles: Wiki Maps for commenting and recording of incidents, heat map and self-reporting of areas. 148 <br />149 <br />Alex Castro: Technology: what are the experts doing? What technology is adaptable? We can use that to 150 <br />educate the riders. 151 <br />152 <br />John Rees: Don’t focus the Wiki maps on just cyclists. Use if for a broader range of people. 153 <br />154 <br />Tom Magnuson: They are called hazard maps. 155 <br />156 <br />Art Menius: Or co-existence maps. 157 <br />158 <br />6