Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force

Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force

Agenda, 

Vision: For Asheville to be a community of connected pathways that is healthy, safe and accessible for people of all ages.

Mission: To educate the public about bicycle and pedestrian transportation; to advocate for the development and maintenance of safe, convenient and inter-connected facilities; to promote the benefits of walking and biking for individuals and community health.

Introductions & Administrative Details

• Sign in and brief introduction of all attendees
• Do we have someone taking minutes?
• Review/accept January Minutes
• Agenda OK? Changes?

Old Business

• Initiating the Walk Friendly application process.  Comments about Asheville on Web Site.
  Link: (https://www.walkfriendly.org/communities/asheville-nc/

New Business

•      Setting up Priorities for the Year.

Discussion/Project Work (To consider)

• Report from NY Times, “Pedestrian Deaths Spike in U.S. as Reckless Driving Surges”.  Is Asheville traffic part of this phenomenon?

Regular Updates (brief updates/announcements and input from Task Force)

• Multimodal Commission
• French Broad River MPO
• Buncombe County
• NCDOT update
• Asheville on Bikes/BRBC/AARP/Street Tweaks/other groups
• General updates

Announcements/Events

• Next Bike/Ped Task Force meeting is in March 17th
• Agenda Items for next month?
• Guests you want to invite to future meetings?
• Keep sending/posting images for the Task Force website and Facebook page. Scott Dickens is the point of contact