City of Greensboro issued the following announcement on May 30.
Construction crews are currently out working on Holden Road. Before long, it will be home to the city’s newest bike lanes.
This spring, the City of Greensboro will add nearly two miles of bike lanes on sections of Holden Road, Washington Street and Sixteenth Street. It’s part of the Greensboro Department of Transportation’s (GDOT) efforts to provide more bike-friendly features citywide.
The bike lanes are being added during the City’s annual paving program. On South Holden Road, GDOT is removing the third lane of traffic to install a buffered bike lane on both sides of the street from Patterson Street to just before the Wendover Avenue interchange.
This section connects to bike lanes along Spring Garden Street. It also provides a good north-south connector, for which the residents on the City’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee have advocated.
The Holden Road bicycle lanes are expected to be extended further south to Vandalia Road with future street resurfacing projects.
The Washington Street project, which runs between Eugene Street and Spring Street, is nearly complete. The Sixteenth Street bike lanes was recently finished. This new segment from Yanceyville Avenue to Summit Avenue connects with an existing section of bike lane east of Summit that was built in recent years.
GDOT supports bike lanes as a way to encourage more people to ride bikes, which is a cost effective, environmentally friendly, and healthy means of transportation. The City’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan calls for adding 77 miles of bicycling facilities, and so far GDOT has added about 69 miles.
For more information on why the City supports bike riding, visit www.gsostreets.com.
Original source can be found here.
Source: City of Greensboro
