Meeting Minutes for April 22, 2010
Alternative Transportation
4-22-10
Present:
1. David Waugh
2. Jim McCabe
3. Nathan Chapman
4. Rick Dudley
5. Heather K.
6. Rick Dubrow
Items of discussion:
Getting WTA involvement in our group
1. Jim to
get Rick Dubrow Maureen McCarthy's contact info. Rick will see if she
or
someone else (i.e. Phil Printz, a WTA driver that Rick Dubrow knows
well) from the WTA might attend our meetings.
Neeed to identify a leader of our group
1. David Waugh may be leaving town for the summer and wants another leader to step forward.
2. On
June 2
there's an important TW meeting to design the next evolutionary morphing
of
TW leadership. The TWIGs hope that each working group will identify a
leader from within their group to attend this meeting. The opportunity
exists
for this person to be one of the new core leaders of TW.
3. Clarification:
Rick Dubrow will not remain on this work group. He
is present so as to help this working group get up and running.
Results of brainstorming session to identify potential projects [or work group
goals]
upon which to focus:
1. Promote local development of non-petroleum fuels
2. Decrease the carbon footprint of travel
3. Promote
carbon offset purchasing in response to one's travel (.e. Native
Energy)
4. Promote
the alternative transportation portions of Bellingham's
Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) (which already exists)
5. Aid in the development of TW's Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP)
6. Promote
our citizens' continuous decrease in their reliance upon carbon-based
travel
7. Increase
local secutrity and resilience by decreasing our dependence on
petroleum
8. Promote
awareness of our addiction to oil; educate citizen's that a liter
of oil contains the equivalent of 200 person hours of hard, physcial
work (so a
$1 purchse of gas gets 200 working hours, or 1/2 cent per
hour; oil replaced slavery in empowering our lifestyles)
9. Promote (petrol-powered) car-free living
10. Promote human power travel
11. Promote
'complete streets' that increase the safety and comfort for walkers,
strollers, wheel chairs and bicycles
12. Promote cycling
safety
and acceptance on all streets
13. Improve non-carbon and low-carbon travel options for the disabled or low income
14. Foster each Transition Initiative's transportation-oriented working groups
15. Focus
these goals beyond Bellingham's urban core (into the small cities and
the
rural county) wherever possible
16. Promote
human powered services (i.e. moving furniture by bike; mobile bike
repairs; bike delivery (pharmaceuticals; groceries; messenger service;
pedi-cabs; small parcel delivery; etc.)
17. Identify
and consistently attend government meetings affecting alternative
transportation
18. Promote free bus transit
19. Create
decentralized bicycle repair/maintenance locations within
existing neighborhoods
20. Promote use of under-utilized school busses for public transit
21. Create
car-free streets (every-12th-street model; Railroad Avenue from Farmers
Market to Adagios; etc.); address concerns of retailers by offering bike
service to get consumer goods to consumer's cars
22. Identify,
and lobby for improvements to, dangerous intersections or obstacles
to safe cycling
23. Promote horse travel within the city of B'ham
24. Develop
a TW non-profit cycling business service (i.e. moving furniture
by bike; mobile bike repairs; bike delivery (pharmaceuticals; groceries;
messenger service; pedi-cabs; small parcel delivery; etc.)
Next steps
1. Prioritize these
potential projects and perhaps select one or more to
focus upon.
2. Select our leadership
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