Action Item: Tegin will review Cambridge’s plans for Kirkland St and communicate the plan and timeline to the Committee

❖ Report back from Enforcement and Education Team

Ian reported the team met remotely and discussed short, medium, and long term goals.

The team wants to encourage Somerville Police Department to choose a dedicated bike liaison, and work with SPD on the process for dealing with bike accidents, and better measuring bike accidents. They also want to work with SPD for “bait bikes”, following examples from the Netherlands and from Brookline.

Ian spoke with Deputy Chief Carrabino about whether officers meeting with high school students as role models could bike, serving as role models for responsible biking.

In the longer term, the team would like to compile a “Guide to Cycling in Somerville”. They could possibly work with high school volunteers to translate the guide into multiple languages. The team would also like to craft a “Safe Streets” responsibility pledge.

The team would like to identify locations of “problem hot spots” where SPD could concentrate enforcement, or hand out pamphlets describing rules of the road.

Jennifer mentioned that Somerville participates in Safe Routes to School. The Enforcement and Education team will reach out to people involved with the safe routes to school program to work together.

Ken mentioned that MassBike had produced a video training police officers on cycling-related issues. Alan pointed out that SPD has already viewed the video.

❖ High school student update (Ariel/Alan) There has been no word from our student representative, Andrew. Ken suggested that we begin the process of identifying a new student rep.