Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board   The mission of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board (BPAB) is to work with the city of Conway to recommend ways the city can become and remain 1) an official Bicycle-Friendly Community as designated by the League of American Bicyclists, 2) an official Walk-Friendly Community as designated by the UNC Highway Safety Research Center and the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center, and 3) a community that seeks to achieve the federal and state goals of the Safe Routes to Schools program. The goals of SRTS and the assessment tools of the WFC initiative include the five Es that the League uses to certify bicycle friendly communities. Doing so entails 1) Engineering of streets to include bicycle facilities (lanes, sharrows, etc) and to expand paved trail networks; 2) Educational efforts to help bicyclists and motorists learn to share the road; 3) Enforcement efforts to ensure that bicyclists and motorists both know and obey the rules of the road; 4) Encouraging the citizens of Conway to increase bicycling through events; and 5) Evaluating our progress in responding to the needs of bicyclists in our community. The expanded Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board will focus on these five Es of Engineering, Education, Encouragement, Enforcement, and Evaluation and the added focus on pedestrian issues. The Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board, consisting of eleven members, who will be citizens of the City of Conway, and will be appointed by the Mayor of the City of Conway and confirmed by the City Council. The members will serve staggered three year terms. In the initial year, the four new members will draw for one, two and three year terms (with two members drawing three year terms). Each subsequent year, members will be appointed for full three year terms. The Conway Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board will include at least two members who represent a recognized bicycle advocacy organization, and will be nominated through a slate of nominees presented by said organization. The four additional members on the expanded Board will include two who will represent pedestrian issues and two who will represent Conway schools. The Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board will meet at 6:00 p.m., on the UCA campus in Irby Hall, Room 120, on the following dates in 2013: Jan. 17, Feb. 21, March 21, April 18, May 16, June 20, July 18, Aug. 15, Sept. 19, Oct. 17, and Nov. 21. No Dec. meeting. Term    2013 2013 2013 2014 2014 2014 2015 2015 2015 2015 2015 Ex Officio: Members James Bruce Lynn Schaefer, Secretary Curt Amenta Greg Reddin Erik Leamon David Barber Michael Yoder Jim Holland Todd Ake Peter Mehl Duston Morris, Chair Tab Townsell, Mayor Ronnie Hall, City Engineer Steve Ibbotson, Parks & Recreation Wes Craiglow, Planning Department AJ Gary, Conway Police Department Finley Vinson Email jbruce@conwaycorp.net lynnr@uca.edu curtamenta@gmail.com gredbug@gmail.com erik@therideonline.net odoketa@yahoo.com msyoder@gmail.com jholland@conwaycorp.net tmake@hotmail.com peterjmehl@gmail.com 3sportfitness@gmail.com mayor@cityofconway.org ronnie.hall@cityofconway.org steve.ibbotson@cityofconway.org wes.craiglow@cityofconway.org aj.gary@cityofconway.org finley.vinson@cityofconway.org Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board Documents: National Bike Month May 2012 R-12-05 Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board Mayor Proclaims May as Bicycle Month O-09-56 Complete Streets Ordinance R-09-20 Bicycle Advisory Board R-08-23 Alternative Transportation Funds R-08-24 Action Plan for Bicycle Friendly Communities Bicycle Master Plan Performance Measures Conway Bicycle Facility Guidelines Conway Bicycle Plan Conway Bike & Trail Master Plan Conway 2013 Bicycle Network Map Bicycling in Conway (a PowerPoint presentation)     Links to informative articles on biking printed in The Log Cabin Democrat: January Column February Column March Column April Column May Column   29 JANUARY 2013