San Antonio is proposing a new bicycle master plan to create a vast network of bike routes across the city, aiming to transform it from a car-centric environment into a bike-friendly haven.
In 2013, the city of San Antonio repainted a 2.3-mile stretch of South Flores Street, near the historic South Side missions, to remove one of the four vehicle lanes and add a pair of bike lanes. About a year later, after complaints about snarled traffic, the City Council voted 10-1 to remove the bike lanes. Signs were taken down, and South Flores was repainted like it had been before.
The South Flores bike lanes had sprung from a master plan which the city drew up in 2011 calling for the construction of a nearly 1,800-mile web of bike routes across the city. Thirteen years later, to the frustration of local cycling activists, that web remains largely unwoven. According to the city, San Antonio currently has about 604 miles of bike routes, including the 110-mile Howard W. Peak Greenway Trail System. Now, city officials are proposing a new and equally ambitious bicycle master plan, which the City Council is scheduled to consider this month. Known as the Bike Network Plan, the new proposal is a roadmap the city could follow over the next quarter-century to build 1,035 projects which would comprise 1,890 miles of bike routes. They could range from lanes and stand-alone paths to low-speed streets shared in their entirety by vehicles and cyclists, known as “bike boulevards.” The plan suggests funding strategies and policy changes, such as a reduction in the default minimum speed limit citywide. If fully built, the network would enable more than half of local residents to cycle comfortably to a grocery store and more than two-thirds to a school, according to the plan. To transform San Antonio from a notoriously car-centric city into a bike haven, the plan would require numerous traffic reconfigurations, including the narrowing or outright removal of vehicle lanes, as well as of parking spaces
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