Latest Posts From Ridge Meadows
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 […]
Candace Gordon, candidate Maple Ridge Council 2011
1. What modes of transportation do you normally use within your community and within Metro Vancouver?I mostly drive my car. I arrange my day so that I can do all my work with one trip. Due to the nature of my contracts I frequently have too much to use a bike. Community Kitchens require too […]
John McKenzie, candidate Maple Ridge Council 2011
1) What modes of transportation do you normally use within your community and within Metro Vancouver?I normally use my car within Maple Ridge, and West Coast Express for my commute to work everyday. 2) How would you support and encourage cycling for transportation – for people of all ages and abilities – to promote healthy […]
Kiersten Duncan, candidate Maple Ridge Council 2011
1. What modes of transportation do you normally use within your community and within Metro Vancouver? My car and my own two feet are my main modes of transport in my community and within Metro Vancouver. As I live out in the country it is often too far to bike and bus service is limited […]
Craig Ruthven, mayoral candidate Maple Ridge 2011
1. What modes of transportation do you normally use within your community and within Metro Vancouver?I use my vehicle to and from work. When I am home, I walk through the Maple Crest trails as well as down town when I am shopping for various items. I am pretty high energy, so I need to […]