The city of Laurel is planning to add bike lanes on 4th and 5th Streets and those who came to a public meeting on it were unanimously in support.
City Engineer Bryon White presented the city's first round of plans for bike lanes and other bicycle infrastructure on the two streets.
When Council President Gayle W. Snyder (Ward 1) said she was surprised that no one had any objections to the plans, the residents at the public hearing explained that they support the program because they think the lanes would make cycling safer and slow vehicle traffic.
The Fourth- and Fifth-Street plans call for bike lanes on part of Fourth Street and using other signage to designate a shared-use roadway on the remainder of Fourth Street and all of Fifth Street. The signage will include small signs on poles as well as "sharrow" markings — white markings on the pavement that indicate the presence of cyclists.
The bikeways will run about one-and-a-half-miles in each direction between Cherry Lane and Riverfront Park. White said the cost for the bike lanes and other signage will total about $10,000.
White said the next step in the project will be for the Department of Public Works to finalize the number of signs and other markings that are needed on Fourth and Fifth streets. He said work crews will make all the markings in a one-week period some time during the summer, when the weather is consistently warm.
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