2024-01-29 Lynchburg Urban Network Meeting Notes

Nathan
- Invited Sterling Wilder to meeting, trying to meet with him to address safety thru design instead of enforcement
- Discuss connecting unofficial downtown bike trail by railroad to Black Water Creek trail to make bypass around Jefferson St, Riverfront Amphitheater project may affect this
Andrew
- They fixed elevator downtown; expanding lot by Awareness Gardens
Ruth
- Assign tasks from GitHub to promote productivity
Tim
- RIC meeting canceled
Fiona
- Better bike router? map/online map showing best bike routes/lanes/paths, marking bad roads
- Legalize sidewalk biking, trails after dark?
LYH Road Issues resolved:
- Reported steps on 12th st near intersection of campbell ave/12th st; city repaired pretty quickly
- Out of date adopt-a-street signs on Memorial Ave taken down
- Urban forester put in trees at Memorial/Park Aves - urban forester really responsive
- Took down Juniper ground cover in front of Pizza Hut covering sidewalks
- Bike pump repair project:
  - Waiting for someone to get back to us about threading on head
  - Randy is looking into tubing
  - For others - fix the broken one, buy extra parts so we can fix if they break
Bus route data:
- Transit app, gltconline.com, sign data, and reality are all different
- Assign Tim to write up report on all this
- Present to manager of GLTC
- Present to city council?
Weekend project ideas:
- Road paint for crosswalks?
- Begin on residential areas we’re familiar with/connected to
- Crosswalk across Euclid Ave at Park Ave?
- Go ahead with sticker project from last month:
  - Tim will measure spots