DENVER (KDVR) — Town of Denver is updating its bike plan and searching for public enter.
Individuals can present suggestions by means of a new on-line survey open by means of Dec. 15. There’s additionally a digital public assembly on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
It’s all a part of town’s Denver Strikes plan for bicycles, which was final up to date in 2015. Taylor Phillips, with the Denver Division of Transportation and Infrastructure, mentioned it’s one thing they attempt to replace each 5-10 years.
“The purpose of this plan is to actually modernize and replace our bike plan, given quite a lot of issues have modified previously 8 or 10 years,” Phillips mentioned. “It’s quite a bit higher if we will get that data from the group. The place do you wish to bike to? The place feels unsafe on our current bikeways, and the way can we make bicycling higher and extra enjoyable, protected and handy for all Denverites?”
Denver’s bicycle community at the moment has 493 miles of on-street and off-street services with extra within the works.
Mike Stejskal, with Mike’s Bikes in Denver, talked about some spots, like South Broadway and entry throughout Interstate 25, that would use some work.
“Under no circumstances do I’ve an answer in thoughts, however positively, there are locations that it looks like a bigger, extra built-in plan would assist all of that entry all the way in which round,” Stejskal mentioned.
“fifteenth Road that we’re on, I’ve clients that experience up and down that and positively have a little bit of a frustration with how that bike lane interacts with site visitors,” Stejskal mentioned.
He mentioned any enchancment is a step ahead for the bike owner group and hopefully results in a safer, extra environment friendly path ahead for everybody on the street.
“I really feel like there are locations that, if we’re actually going to be supportive of bicycles as a mode of transportation, that they need to be seen as a major consumer, not a secondary consumer,” Stejskal mentioned.