· Guest Speaker: Alan Brown P.E.

Senior Project Manager with PBSJ

Consultant for CDOT on the C-470 Corridor Project gave an update for the 4 alternatives that have gone forward for recommendation for CDOT. The bike trail will be maintained in all the plans, but may be reconstructed on the south side of C-470 between the Highline Canal and Quebec because there is more right of way space on the south side. Comments that if they put barriers or sound wall between the trail and the highway that it would be less shady if the trail is on the south side and hopefully less snow and ice in the winter. The C-470 project does not plan to redo the trail as part of the budget, but parts may have to be moved to make room for 8 lanes that are being proposed. Douglas county will be looking at making some of the intersections a separated grade crossing after CDOT finalizes their plans. The intersection at Santa Fe will probably be done before the rest since it is such a bottleneck and Douglas County is already securing funding to improve traffic flow. This will have a separated grade crossing!!

Velo Swap is Oct 23^rd; Bicycle Douglas County will have a booth in the advocacy area, so stop by and say “Hello”. If you have paid BDC dues for ’04 and not picked up your T-shirt yet, you can get yours at our Velo Swap booth.
New brouchures for BDC will be printed before Velo Swap. Member benefits for 10% discount at Bicycle Pedal’r will be added to the revised version.
Member survey shows that we should keep meetings on Monday nights. Thanks to those who gave their input. We hope to see more of you this winter at our meetings.
Douglas County Libraries has asked BDC to participate in 2 family health fairs that will be held in March and April ’05 at the Lone Tree and Parker branches.
“I Bike & I Vote” campaign: BDC encourages all it members to write letters to the editor at the weekly Thursday papers in the next few weeks if you support any bike friendly candidates or you can send your opinions to BDC at judy@bicycledouglascounty.org if you want us to share them via our email network. We encourage everyone to vote in the upcoming election!! Remember you can make a difference by voting for those candidates who support bicyclists.
Bicycle Pedal’r would like to organize a day next May to get families on the bikes on the trails in Highlands Ranch. They are looking for help in this big project from BDC, Highlands Ranch Community Assoc. or HR Metro District. We will discuss this more next month.

Next meeting: Nov 8^th at 7:00 pm

Guest speaker: Gary Debus HRCA Manager will talk about mountain bike trails in the new open space being planned in the south part of Highlands Ranch