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djfivejames
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When: Thursday January 28th
5:00pm-7:00pm
Where: North Surrey Youth Lounge
10275 135 Street
This is a meeting with the city of surrey to discuss details of a new youth park project. The idea so far is that this park will be under a roof, right near gateway skytrain station. The budget is over a million dollars, so this has lots of potential. Newline will be the builder.
Basically, we need every BMXer in the lower mainland that can possibly make it out to come out and show support, lets get a crazy park on the south side of the river!
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| Jan. 22, 2010 12:07 PM |
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I hate to say it, but unless they are planning of policing that place 24/7 there is no way the businesses and residents will go for this. Has it been approved already? I would like to see more parks but location?
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| Jan. 22, 2010 12:26 PM |
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djfivejames
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People probably said the same thing about hastings.
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| Jan. 22, 2010 1:13 PM |
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dotca
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notanasshole wrote:
I hate to say it, but unless they are planning of policing that place 24/7 there is no way the businesses and residents will go for this. Has it been approved already? I would like to see more parks but location? |
It has been approved yes. It is going to be in Tom Binnie park. Surrey has got a grant, with a budget of over a million, to build this park. Any info, just ask me and I'll get it. There is more info in here: http://dotca.pinkbike.com/blog/skatepark.html
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| Jan. 22, 2010 1:42 PM |
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cheech
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"The idea will be something similar to the Vancouver Skate Plaza under the viaducts just east of GM Place "
quote from surrey park designer.
he goes on to explain that only differnce between the two would be budget, 700 thousand different.
roof with lighting, speakers take care of most of that, i would think.
hopefully with peoples input there will be some large transistions
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| Jan. 22, 2010 5:07 PM |
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Transitions please, not another street course.
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| Jan. 22, 2010 8:01 PM |
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djfivejames
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notanasshole wrote:
Transitions please, not another street course. |
That's why we need every one to come out for this. If we outnumber the skaters, we can get a good park.
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| Jan. 22, 2010 8:10 PM |
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dotca
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notanasshole wrote:
Transitions please, not another street course. |
Nothing is fully set in stone for what the park is going to be like, except for the roof. The more people that come out, and voice their opinions on the park and what they want, the better the chance of it being that way, like James said. Want vert stuff and transitions? Come out and voice your opinion.
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| Jan. 22, 2010 8:33 PM |
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Kostya
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Dare I believe my eyes? Did I read that right? One of the rainiest places in Canada is finally talking about getting a public, all-access, free skatepark? Excuse me while I go do a headspin... And let us all be friends and have both transitions and a street course... I likes street courses personally
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| Jan. 25, 2010 12:25 PM |
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djfivejames
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Meeting is today! Everyone that can needs to make an appearance!
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"The best BMXer is the one that's having the most fun." - Sergio Layos
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| Jan. 28, 2010 11:54 AM |
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djfivejames
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Alright, so so far we have a circular bowl (so many lines!), a roof over maybe a quarter of the park, a hockey rink taking up a third of the park's area (which is pretty tight) and lots of ledges and stairs. I also got the feeling that the guys weren't too stoked on all the bikers that showed up wanting a bowl...
Anyways, there's still lots of hope for this project, the design they had was just a quick sketch, so hopefully with more biker input they design something else. Quite a few riders did show up, which was nice. I'll post up the details of the next meeting as soon as I get them.
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| Jan. 28, 2010 11:06 PM |
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j
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| Jan. 29, 2010 9:34 AM |
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dotca
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This is the drawing: http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/4530181/
They said NOTHING is finalized yet.
Here is part of an email I got today as I was not at the meeting due to surgery:
The next steps from here is to take what everyone said or wrote down at the workshop on those forms and use it to shape what the park becomes.? Because the timeline is tight (we have to break ground by June/July and it has to be completed by Labour Day or the grant money starts to evaporate from the fund) we need to push the design through a lot of steps in the next 4 weeks.? We will basically be coming to the next public meeting with a final design that we feel will take the best balance between the wants/requests from the crowd last night and what the site constraints are.? We’re hoping everyone will be happy enough with what Newline ends up with and we can just run the next open house like more of an information meeting of what we’re going to build. ?
What you don’t see on the attached board is the ideas that were pitched for how we could cover a part of the site.? It looks like the focus will be on covering the bowl area.? Once I get those other images it will become clearer.?
Hopefully that settles your curiosity for now.? I’ll keep in touch.? Keep in mind too this is by no means a done plan... this is just a starting point for discussion on what you DO want.? If you don’t think the bowl should have a pump bump/nipple in the middle, let us know.? If there’s anything about the plan you like and want us to be sure to keep... let us know that stuff too.? Show it around to whoever you want.?
If any of you want to get in touch with the parks designer, Jay Meneely of Surrey let me know and I'll get you the email.
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| Jan. 29, 2010 2:34 PM |
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j
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Looks like we should all start going to these meetings...
According to that drawing what they have so far is a bunch of ledges, stairs, wedges and rails all leading into a center round bowl where everyone will crash into each other and die.
Bonsor has a good setup and Maple Ridge has a decent setup. You might not like the specific bowls but at least people in the bowl don't fly into the street course. And kids streetskating don't fire their boards into the bowl after a failed noseslide.
Personally I don't want a park that "flows". I like a park with at least 2 separate areas so I can flow one area without getting crossed up with somebody.
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| Jan. 29, 2010 3:36 PM |
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I totally second what Jay is saying. I have to agree that the separation is better. Less risk involved for collision. I think the conceptual drawing was done more for asthetic than from a funcitonal perspective. The street skating section should be done closer to the hockey rink.
In my experience I strongly feel that the rink will get most of the roof for coverage. In that case on rainy days the skaters will gravitate towards that area anyway, so build the street section closer to that anyway. I would rather have transtion uncovered than have little to no transition at all.
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| Jan. 29, 2010 5:19 PM |
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djfivejames
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j wrote:
According to that drawing what they have so far is a bunch of ledges, stairs, wedges and rails all leading into a center round bowl where everyone will crash into each other and die.
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Haha best description ever.
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"The best BMXer is the one that's having the most fun." - Sergio Layos
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| Jan. 29, 2010 5:34 PM |
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dotca
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From: Dirty Surrey
Posts: 250
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Pass on all concerns to me so they will be addressed before the next meeting. That, or PM me and I'll forward you the persons email so you can deal with it directly (which may be better).
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| Jan. 29, 2010 8:29 PM |
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Just out of curiousity, which company is doing the build? I'm guessing that is secondary to a design being decided upon. Is the goal for a summer opening?
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| Jan. 29, 2010 10:15 PM |
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cheech
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From: abby
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i can have pull in this community, give me contact info for the park plannner, i can make a change, all i need is a phone number! anyone ???
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| Jan. 30, 2010 1:20 AM |
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djfivejames
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Newline is building it.
Honestly, the best thing to do would be to put the hockey rink somewhere else, it constricts everything way to much. Take the rink out and suddenly there's lots of room for a gnar gnar bowl...
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"The best BMXer is the one that's having the most fun." - Sergio Layos
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| Jan. 30, 2010 12:04 PM |
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