Dear River Heights Residents friends and neighbours:
We are looking forward to seeing you out this Tuesday night [Jan 8] at Sir John
Franklin Community Centre at 7pm for our very important meeting with our
representatives.
We are also forwarding the following information for your consideration.
Note the date is also for this week.
Kind regards,
Judy Plotkin, Acting Co-Chair on behalf of the River Heights Residents
Association
*From:* Beth McKechnie <beth@greenactioncentre.ca <javascript:_e({},
‘cvml’, ‘beth@greenactioncentre.ca’);>>
*Date:* 3 January, 2013 3:18:16 PM CST
*To:* AT network <at-network@lists.umanitoba.ca <javascript:_e({}, ‘cvml’,
‘at-network@lists.umanitoba.ca’);>>
*Subject:* *[At-network] Jan. 9th Open House – Capital Region
Transportation Master Plan*
*Have your say on the Capital Region Transportation Master
Plan<http://www.manitobacapitalregion.ca/>
!*
Okay, it may not sound very exciting, but it could have a major impact on
active transportation opportunities between and within communities
surrounding Winnipeg. Please consider sharing with your networks and
participating in the discussion.
*Open House*<http://www.manitobacapitalregion.ca/notices_detail.asp?notice_ID=196>
: Wed, Jan. 9th, from 4:30-7:30 pm*,* City Hall in the Mayor’s Foyer (510
Main St)
*Storyboards* from the three open houses held to date can be found at:
http://manitobacapitalregion.ca/_assets/downloads/story_boards.pdf
*Can’t make the Open House? Fill out the online survey instead*:
http://surveymonkey.com/s/CRTMP
Note that a workshop was also held in December in West St. Paul, which
included representatives from the Province, various municipalities in the
Capital Region, and a number of organizations and associations (including
Janice Lukes from the Winnipeg Trails Association, Anders Swanson and Shoni
Litinsky for Green Action Centre’s Active & Safe Routes to School Program,
Mark Cohoe from Bike to the Future, and Jason Carter representing the
Manitoba Cycling Association).
For consideration, here are the main points that I focused on during group
discussion at our table at this workshop:
– Ensure variety of transportation options – don’t assume that, due to
distances, people will only drive and will always drive
– Make it feasible for residents to choose not to drive whether it’s
between communities or within their community
– Ensure multi-modal options (residents able to combine bike and bus,
regional connections, etc)
– Need for regional transit strategy and collaboration between
communities
– Concerns around changes to Perimeter for increased and faster speeds
of freight goods movement (CentrePort) – barrier that cuts off communities
and makes it that much more challenging for AT users
– Recognize the tourism opportunities in developing the plan – transit
to Birds Hill Park and Grand Beach; cycle tourism in the area with
popularity of cycling route to Lockport and to / within the provincial parks
– Potential role that a Regional Transportation Authority could play
– Potential tool – regional subscription to carpooling/ridematching
service (e.g. RideShark, Pathway Intelligence, Carpool.ca<http://carpool.ca/>
cheers,Beth
On behalf of the
River Heights Residents Association