Miami Adopts Bicycle Master Plan.
Date: 10/10/2009

The City of Miami has adopted its first Citywide Bicycle Master Plan. Mike Lydon of The Street Plans Collaborative served as the plan's principal author. The City of Miami Bicycle Master Plan is the result of nearly two years of hard work on the part of the Bicycle Action Committee, city planners and staff, the Bike Miami Days Team and countless advocates, local groups and individuals. The Plan includes a map of over 285 miles of inter-connected bikeways to be phased in by 2030. These bicycle routes include bicycle lanes, greenways and innovative new bicycle facilities, called 'sharrows' and 'bicycle boulevards'. When built, whether as part of existing projects or as new capital improvements, they will provide a network of bikeways accessible to every Miami resident within a 1/4mile of where they live, work and play. The Plan also introduces bicycle parking standards and calls for the implementation of bicycle parking racks, shelters or lockers at nearly 1,000 new locations throughout our city. Bicycle education, encouragement, and law enforcement provisions were also detailed within the plan. For more information about the City of Miami's bicycling program, please visit www.miamigov.com/bikes.