1. Breakout #4
Michigan Street Corridor
Bicycle Boulevard
Lucy Gibson, P.E., Smart Mobility
Jay Steffen, City of Grand Rapids
Piotr Lewak, City of Grand Rapids
Brad Strader, LSL Planning
Michigan Street Corridor Plan
Community Forum #4
October 29, 2012

2. Why Bicycles?
They take less space than cars They are good for business
They are cheap They can be faster!

3. What and How Should We Build?
Bicycle Network Design First Principles
Design for the “60%”

4. If You Build It They Will Ride (Bicycles)

5. Bicycle Networks
 The City of Grand
Rapids Sustainability
Plan Calls For Increasing
Our Urban Bicycle
Network to 100 Total
Miles by 2014
 A Bicycle Network Must
Be Built Incrementally
in Pieces.

6. Pieces of a Bicycle Network:
Buffered Bicycle Lanes

7. Pieces of a Bicycle Network:
Cycle Tracks

8. Pieces of a Bicycle Network:
Shared Lanes

9. Pieces of a Bicycle Network:
Shared Space

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17. Thank you!
Lucy Gibson Jay Steffen
lgibson@smartmobility.com jsteffen@grand-rapids.mi.us
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