Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition

Social/eating time starts at 6:00. General Meeting begins promptly at 7:00PM and will end at 8:30. Non SVBC Members are welcome to attend and participate.

1. Introductions if new members/attendees are present. Provide time to new attendees to introduce themselves and present their issues, reasons for attending and discuss involvement.
2. Review/approve minutes from April meeting
3. Member and Attendee Reports of items not on the agenda.
4. North South Route:
   • Updates on current status
   • Discussion on future plans and increasing involvement with more members and cities.
   • Can we use BTWD to promote?
5. Caltrain Discussion.
   • Discuss participation with the SFBC Bikes OnBoard project.
   • Have you been bumped flyer for possible distribute on BTWD
   • Participate in this group’s efforts to collect bicycle counts by Caltrain riders.
   • Their current plan is to collect accurate data on bicycle usage on Caltrain, frequency of full bike cars and bumping to complete a report by late summer 2008. Need our help on data from the Peninsula and South Bay trains.
6. Open discussion on your top issues or suggestions to improve bicycling conditions in San Mateo County. Review list completed so far, how should we proceed with this.
7. Redwood City July Fourth Parade.
8. Bicycle Parking: May 3-4 Maker Faire San Mateo County Expo Center, Gladwyn is coordinating and will need help.
9. Final Planning Bike To Work Day. Hand out BTWD Spinning Cranks, Posters for distribution and other final issues.
10. City Updates
    • Redwood City Council has formed a three-person group to define goals and objectives for a BPAC. This group to present their finding with in 8 weeks to determine if a BPAC should be formed.
11. SVBC Items:
    • SVBC Board Report
    • Website status update

Thursday, May 1, 2008
6:00 PM