Latest Posts From Ridge Meadows
Column The News: Time to think about Complete Streets
Published: December 9, 2011 Two issues clearly dominated the recent election in Maple Ridge. Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, cycling wasn’t one of them.However, it was nice that issues around cycling did get their share of attention during the campaign.Read more…
Discovery Bike Ride to Golden Ears Cheeseworks and Cakelicious, Sun. Dec. 4
Who’s up for the last Discovery Bike Ride for this year?!?! We have two great destinations lined up for you for this coming Sunday, Dec. 4.It looks like we’re going to have a sunny day. Just put some warm gloves on! We will be leaving from Big Feast Bistro, 11920 227 Street, at 10:30 am. […]
Municipal election Nov. 2011 – Q&A candidates Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows
Below are lists of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows mayors and council members elected during the Nov. 2011 election, followed by lists of non-elected candidates. Click on each name to see Q&A’s. Maple Ridge Mayor and Council: Mayor: Ernie Daykin Council:Cheryl AshlieCorisa Bell Judy DueckAl HogarthRobert MasseMike Morden Pitt Meadows Mayor and Council: Mayor:Deb Walters […]
Take a hike, take a bike in future?
By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS – Nov. 30/11 www.tricitynews.com Walking, cycling and public transit are emphasized in an update to Coquitlam’s strategic transportation plan, a document that seeks to increase alternate modes of commuter travel in the municipality. Currently, 82% of trips in the city are made by automobile, a number engineering staff said […]
Are Complete Streets Incomplete?
At several all-candidates meetings in the last few weeks, the term “Complete Streets” was mentioned. When engineers design Complete Streets, they consider the needs of all users: pedestrians, wheelchair users, cyclists, transit, and cars. On some streets with low traffic volumes and speeds cyclists can share the road with cars, on other streets bike lanes […]
Bike Advisory Committee Special Speaker Richard Drdul
Note: this presentation has been canceled. We will try to reschedule. Highlight of this month’s regular B.A.C. meeting – Nov. 21, 7pm, Blaney Room, Maple Ridge City Hall – is a presentation by accomplished transportation specialist Richard Drdul. Richard Drdul is an active transportation specialist with more than 25 years of transportation planning and design experience. He […]
Al Hogarth, candidate Maple Ridge Council 2011
1. What modes of transportation do you normally use within your community and within Metro Vancouver? I usually use my personal vehicle. On short errands around town I will walk and if I have to do downtown Vancouver for a day I will take the West Coast Express but that is a rare occassion. I […]
VACC Column Maple Ridge News – Don’t waste your vote; enough sprawl
Published in the Maple Ridge News Nov. 11, 2011: According to a recent United Nations report on population growth, research shows that “an extra child born today in the United States, would, down the generations, produce an eventual carbon footprint seven times that of an extra child in China, 55 times that of an Indian […]
Crisis? What Crisis? What we need is MORE SHOPPING!
World risks being next to unlivable Agence France-Presse November 10, 2011 The world has just five years to avoid being trapped in a scenario of perilous climate change and extreme weather events, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned Wednesday.On current trends, “rising fossil energy use will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change,” the IEA concluded […]
A neat local business
On weekday mornings and afternoons people in east Maple Ridge may have had a chance to see Steve Schleicher in his bright yellow velomobile, on his way to or from work. When I mention the word “velomobile”, most people always look at me, wondering: “what on earth is a velomobile?”. It’s a tricycle, either with […]