Location: Between 10th St and Oak St

The City is leading the outreach, working with County. Simon Blenski is the lead at the City. A group of stakeholders has been formed that includes businesses in the corridor, UMN student groups, and staff at the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition.

Preliminary options

One-way protected bikeways on 4th

and University between Oak St and 10th

• Protected bikeways make people feel safer and more comfortable on the road, and UMN area has the highest bike traffic in the city
• Could support businesses on 4th St with extra bike traffic
• To add a protected bikeway, lanes would have to be narrowed a little, which would add traffic calming
• This option would not alleviate wrong-way biking on University
• Separation would be plastic posts for cost effectiveness

Two-way protected bikeways on

University between Oak St and 10th 

• There are currently three lanes and a bike lane on University
• Traffic calming on University, either by narrowing or removing lanes
• We won’t know the full impacts of these two option until the parking study is released (late March 2017)

Two lanes

• If the traffic study shows that there would be minimal back ups, two lanes of traffic would be an option
• Wider protected bike lane
• Full lane of parking added in some areas

Three lanes

• If lanes are narrowed, three lanes could maybe be preserved
• Protected bikeways make people feel safer and more comfortable on the road, and UMN area has the highest bike traffic in the city
• People ride the wrong way on University right now, a two-way would alleviate that behavior
• Narrow protected bikeway
• Some parking removal in areas