Okay, we are the bicycle and pedestrian safety committee. Um, could I get a mo motion to open the meeting? Make a motion we open the meeting. Second. All in favor? I
Okay. Uh, last minute last month's minutes. Did everyone read them and approve them? He Rick's He's not a member yet anyway. No, a minute. His email. Yeah.
Write it down for me. Beautiful. Okay. He doesn't have to approve it, but if he wants to look at it again. Um, okay. Can I make a motion we approve the minutes from the previous meeting? Second. Second. All in favor? All right.
This was the or the guy that was here last time, right? He was sitting over here talking to us about Yep. Okay. Yeah. Okay. And then the other thing, the next thing is we talked about before too is this spring safe routes to
school event or bike month event. Um I did hear back from Angela. We talked about doing a just a walk around around the the back
um fields or whatever. I guess they have a spot. Angela's from the school. Angela from the school. Yeah. She thinks that's a better idea, too, because of safety. Right now, having them walk a bike ride in the road is not good. So, she mentioned
um that way the the parents can take have it before school starts and that way the parents can also join if they want. And Colleen actually said that's one of the things that is can be done. So, we just have
to figure out what day. And it might not be in May. Who knows? But we'll see. I'm going to have to get back to Angela. Angela and Colleen. Oh, and Colleen is from where again? I'm sorry.
Safe Roots to School. Metum. Yeah, she's mass mass do. Safe roots to school. Yep. She also mentioned that she does like a I think she called it a safety kind of a safety class that they go into the school and
do for the kids which I think is really needed because the next thing we got on our agenda is poke parking lot which what's that about? People have there was something on Facebook too recently about
it. People are complaining about aren't complaining and you have a right to say the uh kids on ebikes in the parking lot. Yeah. Want to hear a story. I was coming out of the parking lot on my ebike. Okay. I went I go through the
park a lot and I'm coming back to Main Street and this young kid pulls up alongside of me on a smaller ebike. He says to me, "You want to race?" He says, "I'm almost 80 years old. I don't want to race." He goes, "Come on, old man. a little race. Oh boy.
Taking it to you. Yeah. Well, I I almost got t-boned coming up street. One day last week, I was coming up street and a kid came out of going across John Street and didn't wasn't going to stop. So, but anyway,
that's the problem with the kids though. I mean, they have parents have no idea what's going on. No. Yeah. And in fact, they're they're thinking of excluding them. I think they already have in one state from bike paths. Well, that's what that post.
It depends on what class it is. Mhm. If it it can't go more than 20. I think 20 is That's what mine. Mine does 20. The next The next one up goes can go faster. Yeah. Well, this kid said his will do 32 3. Yeah. So, that's that one should that's like a motorcycle. Yeah. They
don't wear helmets. They got no helmets on. You know what? They fall and they hit their heads. They're done. Yeah, I know. Sandy sent me a good article by Wired magazine, I think, about called Don't Buy Your Kids an Ebike, and it's all about how dangerous they are if you
crash. And I know very they're very dangerous cuz you're going at least 20 m an hour and that's not good. So, I've seen them on a Bristol bike pass. Yeah. And the big ebikes. These guys, three guys were riding big ebikes on a Bristol bike.
car. I mean, people are going by left and right. Anything but 200 lb. It's all right to ride on the bike path, but you got to use your head. And that's what the kids don't do. Well, they don't. They don't. A parent don't. They're they're in front of them and they stop
in the middle of the bike path for no reason. I don't even I don't even go down there anymore. the article from the article the post uh somebody a guy named he's actually the park commissioner his name is
Chadlair and he he commented on that saying that he's already in the works of trying to ban bikes from a certain part of the park and different things. So I tried I asked him to come to our meeting but he couldn't uh cuz he said his father's in the hospital or something.
So, he did say I need to tell you where I'm at. This is stupid. Anyway, so I think you know it's it's a good idea what he said, but we also had
talked about talking with um the DPW and the guy that people that were here last week as DOT is that about just maybe painting. Remember we said you
wanted painting lines. So, if that's what we were I told him we were already talking about trying to, you know, help make the park easier to uh maneuver safer or whatever. So, he's and then that So, that was interesting that he's
already trying to do something too as far as the bike. So, um we're going to have to talk to mass do people who is I'll be
Yeah, them too. uh DPW and the lines in there. Yeah. But I think it's do that guy that was here last week. They and her name is Lizth Nast. Yeah. They might be able to help us, you
know, say, "Oh, this is how you should paint it. This is I don't know. Unless they just we just paint like the whatever the road whatever it is now, just repaint it." I don't know. Right. I mean I think that I mean the first thing I I would think is that we go to our DPW and say right can you repaint the lines
and if they say no then we go to mass DOT and say we want support in getting the lines you know what I mean like in and I mean that's right any kind of updates to the park is something that they want remember they asked us what we'd like to see down the road for
master plan so any kind of other upgrades would be under that but just painting the lines and Maybe the the town parking lot. I don't know. That's a town. Yeah, I would think it would be the town. So, if they I mean that that that in my mind, in my my limited exposure,
that seems like a a fairly simple request. Yeah. And I'm thinking dollars and cents. I know. But they still have to maintain, right? And they have they there there is a budget for maintaining properties. So, you know, like so you ride you ride your bike through there. I run through there. When I run through
there, I have no idea where I should be. I just sort of go around cars. Right. Right. So I think that you mean putting in parking lot lines lines and maybe mapping out where the actual road is there because there is like the road goes through. Yeah. It goes around.
Yeah. But nothing's there. People just pull in and park and it should be the DPW should be I would think so. That's their job. Well, let's talk to them. Who wants to do that? All right. I'm going I'm going to talk to them. They know me. Okay. and see what they say. And if they if
that's not something that they can do, then what do we need? Especially with the season's coming up. Yeah. Well, there's baseball. So, they're already starting to play uh kids are starting to play baseball. So, Chad, the commissioner said his
plans based on what he's allowed to do is put signs at all entrances, have bike stands at the main entrance, and advise parents that they are not allowed to ride them in the park. That's going to that's going to be tough
to enforce. Yeah, I that's what I thought. Who's going to enforce it? But you know, it's something. Yeah. And I made a comment last time we were here about riding on the sidewalks was safer, but I what I failed to uh
remember was I always rode mountain bikes. Road bikes to me were extremely dangerous. In fact, I had a good friend got killed on one and when I lived in Florida and a possum or raccoon and
possum come out to the road, went into the front spoke, she went over the handle and she had a helmet on and but it killed her. Yeah. But anyway, uh yeah, road bikes you can't ride on the sidewalk really. You know, and you in Florida we the
problem was you get 15 or 20 of them and they take up the lane and you know the cars are getting impatient, you know, trying to pass and it makes for a problem, you know. Yeah. But I don't see that here. No. In fact, uh I very seldom
see once in a while I work part time in Lakeville. I clean offices out there on the weekend and I see once in a while I'll see a a road bike. A road bike and guy going 90 miles an hour. You know, I try to Lakefr is dangerous. You know, they don't have those signs up there. Uh
the 4T signs. I know they don't have those. But the roads are a lot wider. They're wider. Still dangerous out there. Oh yeah. Anytime you're riding in the street, I don't care if you're on a road bike or any kind of bike, it's dangerous. But you got to have mirrors on your on your bike. Oh yeah, definitely. You got to know what's
behind you. So when they do hit you, you if you if you survive, you remember. Speaking of that, I found a bike shop that I never knew even existed in Fair Haven. It's right on Route Six. In fact,
I bought a tire for my electric bike and the kid uh I paid he was a young guy that runs a place and it cost me 50 bucks for the tire and 25 to put it on which wasn't bad cuz the SDU wanted 160.
Did you know they gave it up? There is actually the kids said they're waiting for a sign. They got one here in Faba and they got one in Falmouth and one in Hyannis. No, it's I think that's what it's called. Cape bikes or what? Something like that. But if Have you ever gone down Route Six and you see the
sign that said Shock Diving for Shock? It's right across the street. Right across the street. Right. Yeah. It's a And you go in there and and it's a young guy that runs a place and he's fantastic. Nice kid. Nice kid. Yeah. And he put the tire on while I waited. I
drove the bike there. He put a new tire on. Wow. Yeah. But anyway, I never even knew the place was there. Yeah, we don't have too many shops. No, but he had some electric bikes in there for5 $6,000. Big box. I
mean, you can spend a lot of money. It's like anything else. Bikes are crazy now. Well, I don't. So, that's the So, Pope Park, Eric's going to talk to GPW.
All right, new business. And that's it. Anybody have any new business? I do want to share Sandra's Yeah, Sandra shared that. Yes, May is bike month on May 4th, which is interesting. There's going to be a group
that's going to ride the train to Boston with their bikes. Oh, she mentioned that last time. Yeah. And then there's people that some I'm not sure sure where they're from in Boston, but they're gonna meet and take people where where
you should ride like where the bike paths and bike lanes and all that. You're not just going to go there. That would be Yeah. interesting. There's some I just saw something about Cambridge yesterday. There's some really nice bike paths. Bike lanes, not paths,
bike lanes over there. Bike lanes. A lot of places you get to want Yeah. They want less cars. A lot of places are finally doing something, but there still isn't enough riders, right? You know what I mean? No, in a city it's different. Yeah. You get more and more in the city. But in the big cities,
Yeah. because it's easier to get around. Right. Right. Another thing is on Tuesday, May 13th is South Coast Bikeway is their annual summit uh meeting, which is kind of cool. I went to that. I think they I don't know
if they had it last year. What is it again? I'm sorry. It's the summit. It's their summit meeting. They have guest speaker. I'm not sure who that is. It's South Coast Bike Sandy's group. Yep. I'm not sure where the speaker is. Um
where's that located? And it's not it's going to be at where did I see it? Oh, down the south end. I think it's at the um Fort Tabroom. Fort that that building there candy center better look when you go for table on the right
yeah the Dartmouth maybe oh Dartmouth let me ask you where it is but where is the I just saw that Did you have a date? I'm going to look
for it. Okay. Summit is May 13th. It's pretty good, Sherry, on that computer. I know. Good for you, honey. That's where I started. I when I, you know, I started in school on a real typewriter. Yeah. Back to those days. The only subject I
have a straight A's in is typing. I I type up the meetings, the minutes for the other meeting. Oh, good. And I got an old manual, portable manual. Yep. Yep. That's uh tough. I have two of them. I have two manual typewriters. Can't find it. No, it's I got a Smith
and Wesson, but I can't find Smith Corona, but I can't find a damn I'll put the ribbon for Well, we won't have another Nobody sells them anymore. Yeah. Yeah. service. That's the way it is. Everybody has computers now. Oh, here we go. If
you can't afford a printer, I mean, they ain't cheap, you know. Keynote speaker is Trish Carter with a K and it's at the UMass Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology from 5:30 to
7:30 on a Tuesday. 5:30 to 7. You said 7:30. Okay. Wow. The girl is the speaker. She's a She's the uphill racer and record holder for Mount Washington Hill Climb in her age group, an advisor to
nonprofit advocacy groups. Okay. All right. Anything else? Eric. Uh, no, we had enough for that. I think that was all we had to cover right now.
Okay. So, our next meeting is May 15th and I have it here in the selectman's meeting room. I got to look that up because remember I had to reschedule. We were supposed to meet May 8th, I think, originally, but we changed it, but
that's but that's the same day as the meeting the that they want us to attend for right master plan. Yes. So, not so location to be determined and I think I can look it up too. Actually, it might even be you. I can uh that was me. Oh jeez.
That was Sandra responding. That was Sandra responding to it was Do we want to schedule any other meetings or just the meetings? You want to do like Yeah, that pain in the ass. They are, man. They are.
We're going to schedule some meetings ahead. I think we were talking. I mean that and that includes the likel people coming because by the time we it's already too late. That white house behind the post office. That's where I grew up. Oh. And post office wasn't
there. That was woods. Yeah. Anyway, when we were kids, we'd get out of school and be on our bicycles. My father used to tell me, "Don't come home to those street lights." So, if we go back to 12, you could go anywhere you wanted. Anywhere you wanted. Don't come home to street lights. Well, street lights are
always come home. That's it. Gentlemen, we're looking at dates. Yeah. Dates. So, we already have May. We have May 15th, but we're thinking that we should probably do three or four months out because that will increase if people know ahead of time, they might come.
Right. Right. So, we're looking at either June 12th or June 19th. Okay. June 19th is June 19th. That's a holiday. That is a holiday. Junth. Yeah. Junth. Okay. Uh 12th. The 12th. 12th.
Yeah, that sounds good. Same thing. Six. Okay. June 12th. And then oops. All right. Do one more. July or do we skip July? Because it's July. And some of the groups that are on, we don't meet we don't for the
summer. No meeting in July. Do we want to do that for July or for August? Resume July. Skip skip skip July and do August or Yeah, let's skip let's skip July. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Just just one month.
Okay. So then August 14th 14th. Eric. Yes. How how's your calendar on what was it? August 14th. Okay. August 14th. That's good. Yeah, we're all good. Okay, I put them in
[Music] next. Want to go September 26 11th? That's on the Let's go. I won't be here this third week. The 11th word. Oops. 11th I'll be here.
Okay. All right. That's good. That's five months worth of days. So, yeah. Okay. All right. All right. And Rick is going to become a member, right? Yeah. I'm going to I'll
go up there probably next week. Okay. He's going to go talk. Yeah. I put on here a pending board. I'll uh I'll find out what the story is. But we still do need one more. Well, you eventually need two more because you only have I think we can only say one right now because
until I step down, right? You're not going anywhere. Not yet. But I'm I'm managing you. I'm managing. I have a We need somebody rather involved job. So this sometimes like you'll see me with my phones and all this other drama. Yeah. So once there's a full
committee, I'm going to step away. But when we get to four. Me too. You too. Yeah. I got things to do. You know me at night time. Yeah. You know, he know I did this for Sandra. Well, that's all right. So, we'll come in. You
know, we've been at it for a little bit. We're all right. We're doing okay. Yeah. So, meeting motion to uh join join. So, we're all set. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? Okay. Motion. I make a motion we adjourn. Second. All in favor?
I Heat. Heat.