Comments (0) “The best way to get to know a neighbourhood, is to walk it.”
- Jane Jacobs
The weekend of May 7th and 8th, there will be a number of Jane’s Walks throughout the region. You’ll get a little exercise, fresh air, and learn some things you likely never knew about the history of your neighbourhood, or even some of the issues facing it today.
If you’re looking for one nearby, check out the Shelbourne Valley Jane’s Walk.
Start your Earth Day celebrations with either a walk or a ride in your community! We’ll all be gathering in the parking lot next to Emmanuel Baptist Church at 11:00 AM on Good Friday, April 22nd, and making our way to the Family Picnic and other events next to Uplands Park. Hope you can join us!
View Earth Day Celebration Walk or Bike Routes in a larger map
Your Community Association is busy planning with the Friends of Uplands Park for our Oak Bay Earth Day Celebration on Friday, April 22nd! Earth Day 2011 Poster
For our part, the CAOB is leading a bike ride from UVic to Cattle Point via a route we like to call The Educational Corridor. The route starts from our University, passes Camosun College, Carnarvon Park (Preschool/Daycare), Oak Bay High School, SMU Jr. School, and Glenlyon Norfolk School, and lands us at Cattle Point where we’ll finish up with a picnic with the Friends of Uplands Park.
View Earth Day Celebration Bike Route in a larger map
The Friends of Uplands Park are planning plenty of activities to participate in and enjoy all day!
Schedule of Events
9:00am —- Bird Walk at Cattle Point
11:00am —- Earth Day Bike Ride along the Oak Bay “Educational Corridor” starting at UVic, visiting Willows School, Oak Bay High, Monterey School, gathering riders at each school along the way.
11:00am —– An Earth Day Walk starting from UVic to end at Uplands Park.
12:00 Noon —- Picnic & Music: Walkers and bike riders and other participants arrive at Uplands Park for family & friends picnic
12:15 (or so) —- Official Welcome
1:00 —- Guided Nature Walks (1 walk will be at Cattle point; 1 walk will be along the trails in Uplands Park)
2:15 —- Guided Nature Walks (1 walk will be at Cattle point; 1 walk will be along the trails in Uplands Park)
Noon – 3:30: Other activities include:
———– Music by The Bald Eagles
———– Face Painting
———– Treasure Hunt
———– Bubbles
———– Uplands Park Map Display
———– GOERTS and HAT displays
———– Invasive Species Removal
3:30 —- Official Closing
It’s time again for our Annual General Meeting! Please join us for elections of new Directors, and a presentation by Saanich Councillor Vic Derman on The Natural City.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2011
Bamboo Room, Monterey Centre
1pm
TOWN HALL MEETING
Town Hall Meeting PosterTuesday, April 12, 2011
7:00 PM in the Garry Oak Room, Monterey Recreation Centre at 1442 Monterey Avenue
Oak Bay Municipal Council invites residents to a Town Hall meeting to discuss in an open forum any items of interest. Everyone is welcome to attend.
For more information contact the Oak Bay Municipal Hall at 250-598-3311.
A Billion Acts of Green, and our Earth Day Celebration is one of them! Join the Community Association of Oak Bay in our pledge to celebrate Earth Day, Good Friday, April 22, 2011.
We are organizing a bike ride from UVic along what we call the “Educational Corridor” that connects cyclists from school to school in Oak Bay, ending with an Oceanside ride back up to Cattle Point. At the same time, a group will be enjoying a walk from UVic down through the Uplands to Cattle Point, where we will all join together with the Friends of Uplands Park to celebrate with food and live music, and many other activities that they have planned for the afternoon.
If you want to join us, stay tuned here for updates, or have a look in our upcoming issue of The Connector newsletter in the centrefold of the Oak Bay News, Wednesday, March 30th, 2011.
Love your tweed? Love your bicycle? On Saturday, May 7th, 2011 you can join a stylish ride from the Inner Harbour to Oak Bay, in The Tweed Ride Victoria.
The Tweed Run London started the trend in the Fall of 2009, and have been cropping up all over the world. It’s a slower paced ride with style, with a stop for a spot of tea mid-way, judging of the most stylish of the group, and ending at the The Penny Farthing Pub in Oak Bay (where else?!). The added bonus? 100% of your Registration Fee ($5.00) for Tweed Ride Victoria will go to purchasing a stretcher/ ambulance-bike for rural clinics in Malawi.
For more information, or to register, please visit The Tweed Ride Victoria.
To get yourself in the spirit, have a watch of this video:
Tweed Ride 2010 from Steven Greenstreet on Vimeo.
Contributed by Margaret Lidkea and Kathleen Matthews, Co-Founders of Friends of Uplands Park
Also upcoming:
CARPET BURWEED PATROL on Sunday March 27 at 1:30 at Cattle Point
Please RSVP to Margaret Lidkea 250-595-8084 mlidkea@shaw.ca or Kathleen Matthews 250-598-7995 kathleenmatt@gmail.com Newcomers welcome.
EARTH DAY CELEBRATION Planning Meeting on Thursday March 24th, 7 to 9 at 1894 St. Ann Street. Friends of Uplands Park is partnering with the Community Association of Oak Bay for an Earth Day Celebration which will be held on Good Friday, April 22, 2011 from 12 to 3:30PM. We need volunteers to help with some of the activities.
Submitted by Sonja Ruthe, Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
Join US! Oak Bay Municipal staff, emergency program volunteers and community schools, preschools, churches, organizations, businesses, individuals and families will participate in The Great British Columbia ShakeOut on January 26 at 10:00 AM.
There are currently over 260,000 British Columbians who have registered and will “Drop, Cover and Hold On” on January 26th. We will be part of the largest earthquake drill in Canadian history! To Register and learn more about how to protect yourself and get prepared during an earthquake go to www.shakeoutbc.ca. Send us your pictures and stories to coordinator@oakbayemergency.com.
Who is Registered in Our Region
You can visit this page to see who in our region is registered.
Media Inquiries
The Oak Bay Emergency Program would like to know whether your group/school/organization might be interested in having media attend your event. We have no control over what they chose to cover, but we would like to give them various options at the local level. Please advise Dave Cockle dcockle@oakbaybc.org of what you are doing and whether you are interested ASAP. This could then go into a local press release.
Check the website for a variety of great materials (posters, fliers for various groups, other information). It is found at www.shakeoutbc.ca
Drill Audio File
The ShakeOut website now includes the audio file that can be played during the drill. It can be found here.
The file can be saved to your local computer. The drill broadcast text is also available if you choose to not use the audio file, but instead have someone at your school read out the drill text.
Regional Drill Broadcast – New!!
CFAX 1070 has agreed to broadcast the earthquake drill at 10am on January 26th. This is a great place to suggest people tune in and listen.
How Can You Help
We still need people to push out the ShakeOut message and encourage other organizations and individuals to participate. Please consider using your networks to encourage others to participate.
We will update you on other ShakeOut information as it comes available. We have less than 2 weeks now until the drill.
Tell Us What You are Doing
One of the great things you can do is brag a bit. Tell us what you have planned for 10am on January 26th. We would like to post your events to the ShakeOut website as well as to the Oak Bay Emergency Program website. If you do not want it posted that is ok – let us know what you are doing anyway and we will at least have an idea of the level of involvement from across our region, but keep your secret.
The Community Association of Oak Bay hosted an Active Transportation Forum on November 25th, 2010. At that time, a report card was written on our current status with regard to active transportation options in Oak Bay, and we think you might be interested in our community’s progress, as compared to those around us.
CURRENT STATUS:
Does our community have walkable and multi-use pathways?
North-south routes in Oak Bay are few, with limited crosswalks, and no official community plans for improvement;
Municipality of Oak Bay actions November 2009 to 2010:
Budgets and expenditures, Oak Bay municipality:
OBTAINING EXTERNAL FUNDING:
Oak Bay municipality made two grant application proposals to the Province of BC and the Government of Canada for transportation infrastructure in last 5 years:
Source: Municipal Clerk and Province of BC Local Motion Website
OTHER MUNICIPALITIES:
Effective Steps by Other Municipalities:
1. Do the Planning
2. Adopt the Policies
3. Submit the Proposals
4. Receive the Funding
5. Build the Connections to local and regional networks
2010 AND BEYOND
INITIATIVES OF OTHER MUNICIPALITIES
A summary of the activities, initiatives and results of other municipalities in Greater Victoria are highlighted below:
Central Saanich – 2010:
Population 16,000
$575,000 Local Motion Grant
Bicycle lanes on both sides of East Saanich Road and separate walking path near Peninsula Recreation Centre
Largest roadway improvement in recent years
Completed September, 2010
Population 16,000
East Saanich Road – 2.7 km from Island View Road to Cultia Ave
Total Cost is $7.0 million
Build Canada Fund pays $4.66 million
2.7 kilometre roadway will provide separate bike lanes, and separate walking trail
Includes sidewalks and bus stops
Completion scheduled for March 2012
View Royal – 2010:
Population: 9000
CRD Travel Choices 2007 – 2011
Island Highway – Admirals to Colwood Interchange – $15.0 million
E&N Rail Trail Project – 11.0 Million
2 photos showing major benefits for all roadway users
View Royal Official Community Plan
Adopted revised OCP on April 1st, 2010
Roads designated a “community resource” for benefit of all users
Neighborhood-wide planning – not each problem in isolation
Pedestrian access and movement to be enhanced
Quantifiable, measurable goals set
10 Year Cycling Action Plan endorsed
Links with neighboring municipalities and
Part of regional network
Bicycle parking, showers, lockers, change rooms.
Saanich – 2010
Population: 109,000
Multiple Use Trail / Roadway
Completed 2010
San Juan Greenway
East to West Connector Route
UVIC to Tyndall Soccer Fields
Shelbourne Street to Lochside Trail
Safe and convenient for pedestrians, students, teams and cyclists
Local Motion Billboard – Total Cost $1.1 million
Langford – 2010
Official Opening of Goldstream Village
Pedestrian and Cycling Friendly
Using Traffic Circle as Key Feature
Reduces overall accidents and reduces pollution
Improves safety for cyclists and pedestrians
Langford received ICBC Grant for $78,000 to pay for new Traffic Circle with Fountain
(Source: Claire Eraut – Oak Bay Resident, Former Deputy Superintendent of Motor Vehicles 1994 – 1998)
No curbs which allows more movement and improved pedestrian safety, Light up crosswalk included in project
Victoria – One Block Away from Oak Bay
Small traffic circles used to reduce speed and avoid accidents
Allenby and Dean intersection
Bike route to Camosun College
Park with children’s play area
Bay Street cross-town route upgrades to Royal Jubilee Hospital
CRD Finishes 5 Year Investment Plan in 2011
Rails to Trails Project: $11.0 million
CRD Ped Cycling Master Plan: $150,000
Esquimalt Craigflower Rd: $8.0 million
View Royal & Island Hwy: $15.0 million
PROVINCIAL FUNDING CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:
Bike BC Cycling Infrastructures Partnerships Program (CIPP)
This cost-shared program to funds new cycling paths and multiple use trails, with a goal to reducing traffic congestion and green house gas emissions. The program has $31 million over three years. Deadline for applications: Sept. 1st, 2010 for this year.
CIPP Funding – North Vancouver
CIPP Funding – City of Kelowna:
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