Colorado Springs Takes on Cycling in its Bike Master Plan

Listen Listening … / / 1:12 A recent report on bike availability reveals some locations where Colorado Springs cycling infrastructure could enhance. The report is part of the city’s Bicycle Master Strategy. It discovered that just 0.7% of Colorado Springs residents commute on bikes, compared to 1.3% statewide. Among other things, it likewise raised frequent high speed limitations as an obstacle to safe biking. Kate Brady is the senior bicycle coordinator in the city’s public works department. She says for many residents, cycling isn’t really simply a pastime. “A great deal of individuals in our neighborhood can not drive, either since they do not have a vehicle or because they are too young or too old or have a medical condition,” Brady says. “I believe that we desire a city that works for everyone.” Brady states the preparation department is working with Mountain Metropolitan Transit to collaborate bike routes and passages with bus routes. Jessica Fields with Toole Design Group, an outdoors firm the city has contracted to help produce the Bike Master Strategy, says one possible area of improvement is extending the cycling culture to those who are not currently cyclists. “If that were more of the focus of a few of the education and motivation programs, we think that the city could make some huge enhancements in terms of having cycling belong to more the every day identity for Colorado Springs,” Fields says. The general public works department wishes to present the strategy to city council by the end of the summer. There will be an open home to discuss the Bike Master Strategy on May 3rd at Penrose Library from 5 to 7pm.