OUTBoard agenda 111914 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

D R A F T Abigaile Pittman: How can you tell how fast you are going?111 112 Jeff Charles: Most serious cyclists have odometers but if you not, you learn pretty quickly. 113 114 Paul Guthrie: The mixed use trails in this country have wide rights-of wayand the track is wide.115 116 Jeff Charles: Mountain biking, etc., if we don’t improve our rural roads, they will look for other options and as you 117 develop these trails, you will see them go where you did not expect them to.118 119 Abigaile Pittman: Other than thesecomments, I would like the Board to consider supporting the goal and objectives 120 developed by DEAPR staff. 121 122 Paul Guthrie: This recommendation is pretty good. The comments on emergency needs to be better defined. It is 123 not just what the Parks department can do but what the potential responders may need to modify with how they 124 respond and what kind of equipment but both sides need to inform the others.125 126 RichShaw: The Emergency Responsestaff hasnot reviewed this draft yet. If you think of anything or have any 127 questions, let me know.128 129 130 Jeff Charles: In your packet, there is an N&O news article about the June 25th alleged road incident in the court 131 system where a gentleman has been cited for misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon associated with this 132 alleged road rage incident. I ride 5,000 plus miles per year and the vast majority is in Orange County and I have 133 been seeing an increase in friction between motorists and cyclist which is why we came up with the road safety 134 guidelines which will support now. I ride with about 100 people a year and of those 100, three of those have been hit 135 by a car or had car interactions in the last two months. In this case, it was road rage involved. Presented videos of 136 ride. You can make a legal pass if you have 500 foot visible with a double lane.If there are 20 plus cyclist riding in 137 the same lane, it is frustrating for motorists. How do you convince cyclists to break into smallergroups? This is part 138 of an education process. The League of American Bicyclists listed the top ten states, each one has the following 139 statement in their vehicular law, and bicyclistscannot ride more than two abreast and cannot impede traffic. North 140 Carolina is ranked 23rd because we don’t have very good bicyclist rules. There are two groups of Orange County 141 trying to work on this problem. There is a motorist group working on this alsoand I am sitting on that group. 142 Commissioner Price has agreed to head a working group to get law enforcement involved. Gail Alberti is the 143 motorist’s representative in our group. We do not want to get legislature involved in this. We also need to be 144 concerned about mopeds and the elf vehicle.145 146 Alex Castro:As the population increases, more and more people will want to get out. I would recommend you make 147 contact with the Grange in Schley. 148 149 Jeff Charles: Bonner Hauser is heading up the motorist group and Renee and I are heading up the cyclists.150 151 Paul Guthrie: It has been my observation of the last 10 years, how much cruder the driving is.152 153 Jeff Charles: This is also an enforcement issue. The law is that you have to stop if anyone is walking across the 154 cross walk. We don’t want to get legislature involved. 155 156 Alex Castro: We need to raise awareness and have a good publicity campaign. What is the law? Having a public 157 awareness campaign to highlight these points tonight would be very helpful.158 159 Jeff Charles: Enforcement and education are the way I go. We are bringing ideas from Europe for education. I hope 160 these videos have a role in enforcement for laws.161 162 Alex Castro: What about getting the bicycle shops to help get some of those videos on the air.163 164 Jeff Charles: I want to make sure law enforcement can use the videos.165 13 ReturntoAgenda