After gathering resident feedback, city staff is putting together the new draft of its bike plan, which it hopes to unveil in March.
So far, Jessica Scott, bicycle manager with Dallas’ Transportation Department, said much of the input received includes demand for increased maintenance of existing bike facilities in addition to requests for more protected and separated facilities.
“One of the really big reasons that we’re doing this update is to not only capture how the city of Dallas has changed since 2011 ... but also to capture the really significant change in the technical and professional world of bicycle facilities,” Scott said.
According to a map on the city’s bike plan webpage, proposed new facilities in the Lakewood area include developing bicycle boulevards—streets that use traffic-calming measures, such as speed bumps and traffic diverters—along Fisher Road from Lawther Drive to Rockaway Drive and along Sondra Drive from Sperry Street to Abrams Road.
Proposed projects in Lake Highlands also include bicycle boulevards in addition to a proposed visually separated lane along Whitehurst Drive and Audelia Road from Walnut Hill Lane to Abrams Road, and a proposed biking trail along Walnut Street from Dallas’ city limit to Greenville Avenue.
Other biking facility types proposed across the city include new shared-traffic routes and physically separated bikeways.
Scott said city staff hope to bring its finalized draft of the update to City Council by April or May, allowing for some of the proposed projects to be included in the next bond election. She added that implementation will prioritize “quick win,” low-cost projects and those connecting to other existing forms of transit.
