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Enforcement:
Ensuring safe roadways for all users.
• Enforce “Rules of the Road” and traffic laws for bicyclists and drivers.
• Enforce light and reflector laws for those who ride at night—promote with a bike light
campaign.
• Improve control at trail crossings—yield / stop signs.
• Align bicycle ordinances across metro to avoid conflicting regulations.
• Address distracted driving—esp. texting while driving.
• Focus enforcement in areas where new facilities are established.
Evaluation:
Planning and monitoring to ensure a safe and convenient bicycle network.
• Plan for bicycle accommodations and clearly mark detour routes for bicyclists during road
construction or other closures.
• Measure use of existing facilities (bicycle and pedestrian counts).
• Prioritize ADA transition plans to bring all streets, sidewalks, and bus stops into
compliance with curb ramp standards.
• Listen and respond to input from bicyclists.
Encouragement:
Creating a strong bicycle culture that supports and encourages bicycling.
• Design and implement a wayfinding system to better guide bicyclists across the network
of metro facilities and between types of facilities.
• Promote bicycling as an economic development tool (tourism, business, quality of life).
• Expand participation in Bike Month/Bike to Work Week.
• Provide timely updates on projects that impact bicyclists (e.g. trail extensions, closures,
and detours).
Education:
Giving people of all ages and abilities the skills and confidence to ride.
• Offer programs that teach basic skills, rules of the road, route planning, basic bicycle
maintenance.
• Emphasize youth education programs.
• Create broader awareness of the bicycle network and programs through outreach efforts
coordinated with community and business organizations.
• Design public campaigns to raise awareness of safe passing and other behaviors that
enhance bicycle safety.
• Design and implement a “Bicycle Friendly Driver” program to educate drivers (especially
those who drive for work) about bicycle behavior and to develop a better understanding of
“share the road” for all users.
Engineering:
Creating safe and convenient places for people to ride and park.
• Ensure routine maintenance (snow removal) and prompt repair to bicycle facilities and
routes, especially commuter routes.
•Improve connectivity between bicycle facilities across the metro.
• Establish minimum bicycle parking requirements for new development.
• Comply with complete streets policies for all new road construction.
• Limit access (driveways/curb cuts) along roadways where sidepaths serve as bicycle
infrastructure.
Equity:
Ensuring that bicycling is safe and accessible for all people.
• Prioritize access to bike facilities in areas of multi-family and high-density residential
development.
• Plan for bicycle facilities and safe routes to schools.
• Plan for bicycle and pedestrian access to employment centers.
• Design bicycle programs to meet the unique needs of women, families, children, seniors,
immigrants, and low-income communities.
• Provide opportunities for all children to learn to ride and have access to bicycles.