https://lawrenceks.org/mpo/bicycle_planning August 2019 Why update - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

https://lawrenceks.org/mpo/bicycle_planning August 2019

Why update the plan?

• The need to reconcile the various bicycle related

plans into one vision

• Plan for a continuous low stress bikeway network
• Establish criteria for bikeway types based on best

practices and national design standards

• Lay out a 5E’s approach to implementation

(Engineering, Education, Encouragement, Enforcement, Evaluation)

• Establish performance measures

The Case for Bicycling

Public Input: What We Heard

I would ride my bicycle more often if I felt I could do it safely Number of Responses - 580

Public Input: What We Heard

Lawrence & Douglas County’s transportation network should equally prioritize the needs of people who bicycle with other travel modes Number of Responses - 573

Public Input: What We Heard

Comfort Bicycling On Different Forms of Bicycle Facilities on Residential/ Neighborhood Streets

Public Input: What We Heard

Comfort Bicycling On Different Forms of Bicycle Facilities on Commercial Streets

Vision & Goals

Improve Safety

• Continue zero bicycle riders fatalities & serious injuries through 2025.

Increase Ridership

• Increase bicycle mode choice to 3% by 2025.
• Increase Bike to School percentage to 5% by 2025.

Increase Access

• Increase the percentage of population within ¼ mile of Level of Comfort 3 or below bikeway

network to 89% by 2025.

Create a Network of Low-Stress Bikeways

• Increase the mileage of low-stress bikeways to 46% by 2025.

Bicycle Friendliness

• Achieve League of American Bicyclists Silver level Bicycle Friendly Community or higher by 2025

Bronze level since 2004 42% as of July 2019 79% as of July 2019 1% with ±0.4 Margin of Error in 2017 3% in Fall 2018 0 as of 2017 data

Action Plan

Existing & Planned Network

Level of Comfort

Level of Comfort

Design Guide

The purpose of this guide is to provide a toolbox of available bicycle related facility and treatment options. The guide is not a standard or mandate superseding City of Lawrence design criteria, rather this guide provides a supplement to the Lawrence Bike Plan in an effort to create a more bikeable city. The application of bike guide elements are by a public process and engineering study.

Design Guide

Facility Selection Criteria

Marked Shared Lanes Advisory Bike Lanes Bicycle Boulevard Conventional Bike Lane Buffered Bike Lane Protected Bicycle Lane Shared Use Path Shoulder Bikeway

http://assets.la lawrenceks.org/assets/mpo/bic icycle le/Bik ikePla lan-Draft.pdf https ps://la lawrenceks.org/mpo/bic icycle le_pla lannin ing

Public Comment Period: May 15 to June 14 25 comments by 14 people/organizations

Public Comment Period

Next Steps