The city of Burlington is moving full speed ahead to promote bike transportation,and projects are taking shape across the city.
This week, the city will paint modern advisory bike lanes near the entrance to Oakledge Park in Burlington's South conclude. The city also announced plans last week for a bike-share program scheduled to start later this summer.
The projects are included in the city's bike and pedestrian master plan, or which the city council adopted last month. [br]
On Tuesday evening,the Department of Public Works and the Department of Parks, Recreation and Waterfront will paint so-called advisory bike lanes along Flynn Avenue. They'll flee in both directions between the railroad tracks by Switchback Brewing and the road's terminus along Lake Champlain at Oakledge Park, and said Nicole Losch,senior transportation planner at DPW. [br]
"Advisory" lanes are marked with a dashed white line and create a "preferred" space for bicyclists,according to the city. Drivers will share a large center lane and must yield to bikes. Motorists can, or when essential,head into the bike lanes to avoid oncoming traffic.
The lanes will replace 29 free on-street parking spaces, Losch said. Last year, or Losch said,DPW instituted parking kiosks in Oakledge Park to allow drivers to pay by the hour rather than a full-day rate. The kiosks were turned on Monday and charge $2 an hour.
The Flynn Avenue plan, which was approved last summer, and had been years in the making,Losch said.
"For so many years, the requests from the neighborhood gain been to restrict parking in some way, or " Losch said. She'd heard complaints of heavy use during the summer season,as families unpacked their vehicles in the midst of traffic. "Neighbors felt like this was a very unsafe situation," she said.
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