UPCOMING EVENTS & NEWS

Next Board Meeting - Monday September 13, 2010

Bridgeland Walking Group

Looking to get active? Meet people in Bridgeland? Are you interested in joining a local walking group? I am a resident in Bridgeland and want to know what works for the people here. Send me an email telling me: Who you are? What times you'd like to walk (mornings, evenings, weekends)? If you walk already? If you know others who like to walk? bridgelandrunwalk@gmail.com.

Community clean-ups were a success this summer
In celebration of summer, Bridgeland Riverside residents got together on two occasions (June 26 and August 7) to host community clean ups.  Half a dozen residents of the community dedicated Saturday mornings to spanning the streets and avenues of Bridgeland Riverside for garbage and debris.  With smiles of their faces and litter pickers in hand, bags upon bags of garbage were gathered and properly disposed of in a mere few hours, leaving community streets cleaner and brighter.  This event would not have been possible without equipment donations from The City of Calgary Parks and Alderman Joe Ceci, nor would it have been a success without the dedication and enthusiasm of wonderful volunteers!!

Help Design the Island!
St. Patrick's Island needs you. This 30-acre island is currently one of the least used parks in Calgary and we want to know how you'd like to see that changed. Situated in the Bow River and adjacent to the Calgary Zoo this small island is ready for a new life and that is where you come in. As part of the master plan process the St. Patrick's Island Master Plan team is committed to public engagement and understanding what is important to all Calgarians. For the past six weeks we have conducted a series of public consultation events, including an online survey, two stakeholder World Cafe sessions, a display at Fort Calgary on Canada Day and Idea Studios on Princes Island and St. Patrick's Island. This is the second of three surveys planned as part of the master plan process to capture the imagination, ideas and opinions of Calgarians. The images you will see within this survey are examples of what is possible on the island. You will be asked to prioritize your preference on a series of images depicting a wide array of activities and designs. The survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete. Once completed you can enter to win one of three $100 gift cards to River Cafe*. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/small_island2. Your input is vital and we appreciate your time in completing this survey. This survey will remain open until September 6th at 11:59pm. * Full contest details online.

Traffic study application update:

The traffic study application which was submitted to the city’s transportation department in the fall of 2009 is still active and we are hoping that our community will be picked for a traffic study and subsequently traffic calming measures which would  be implemented in 2011.

As a true inner city community, subject to increasing numbers of cut-through traffic, our growing community needs some measures undertaken to slow down and decrease this traffic and to protect and enhance the walkability of Bridgeland.

If our application is successful,  Bridgeland residents will be randomly contacted by the city to verify if they support a traffic study for the neighbourhood

Hopefully, a comprehensive analysis  of parking in Bridgeland will also be undertaken
so that a parking system will be implemented that serves both residents and businesses
in the area in a logical manner.

With the increase in pedestrians and bicycles in our neighbourhood , it is important  for community residents to drive at a safe speed on all roads and through our school and playground zones. It is hard to expect cut through traffic to drive at a safe speed if our own residents are driving 50 km/hr through the local school zones, rolling through stop signs or ignoring kids trying to cross our main corridors.

If you are aware of constant traffic violations at any specific areas of Bridgeland, please report these online at www.calgarypolice.ca. Click on Sections and Units, scroll down to Traffic Service Request form under the Traffic heading.  (http://www.calgarypolice.ca/sections-traffic-service-form.html)

Please take the time to submit your traffic issue to the police. The more problems that are brought to the attention of the Traffic section, the more chance there will be for some police visibility and monitoring in Bridgeland.