[MissoulaGov] Bike lanes on Higgins and Orange

[Bob Jaffe]

Jim Sayer from Adventure Cycling organized a meeting today between the
MDOT folks and a number of the parties interested in bike lanes
downtown. Jason and I were there from the council, Steve king from
engineering, MRA and MDA and a few other parties were represented.  I
thought it was a real positive discussion. This summer they will be
repaving the section of Higgins from the bridge to Broadway. There was
consensus in the room that there should be bike lanes when it gets
striped. The road section is 66 feet across. So they can do two ten foot
lanes, a five and half foot bike lane, and a seven and a half foot
parking space on each side. The DOT guys said they generally prefer
bigger lanes but they are OK with ten feet. The district administrator,
Doug Moeller, said that for now on they would always make a point of
considering the bike infrastructure up front on every project they do in
Missoula. This was great news.

I also learned that they are going to redo the section of Orange from
Broadway to the bridge. It may be possible to put in bike lanes on this
stretch if we take out the four or five parking spaces. That will need
some further consideration. I bike this stretch almost every day and it
is pretty narrow. 

  

 

Bob Jaffe

Missoula City Council, Ward 3

bjaffe at ci.missoula.mt.us <mailto:bjaffe at ci.missoula.mt.us> 

406-728-1052

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