TO: TRANSPORTATION AND FROM: Bicycle and Pedestrian
ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE Advisory Committee
SUBJECT: Bike Plan 2025 and Trail Network DATE: 3/24/25 Status Report
______________________________________________________________________________ Honorable City Council Members,
Your Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) would like to submit the following comments on the "Bike Plan 2025 and Trail Network Annual Report":
1. We whole-heartedly support our City’s goal of building of a high-quality, interconnected network of on-street bikeways and off-street trails. This advances our City’s humanitarian and Climate Smart goals for safety, equity, and transportation mode shifts away from automobiles.
2. We appreciate that this plan has been implemented in coordination with DOT’s pavement maintenance program, the Vision Zero Program, and regional highway projects.
3. We are clear that funding for this plan has been huge challenge because:
a. The cost of road diets, new bikeways, new trails, new paving, and their maintenance and repair are very high, and
b. Because these projects aren’t capital budgeted, our city must compete for federal, state, and local grant funding to achieve Bike Plan 2025’s goals.
4. Despite this fiscal year’s financial shortfalls, we urge this Committee to do whatever is necessary to stay on track for the completion of Bike Plan 2025’s goals.
These comments were appoved unanimously at the March 24, 2025 BPAC meeting.
Sincerely,
Aarshdeep Kahlon, Chairperson