City councillors to discuss allowing bikes along Stephen Avenue

WATCH ABOVE: Officials with the City of Calgary are considering changes to Stephen Avenue for the new cycle track network. Jenna Freeman reports

CALGARY – Calgary Councillors will be discussing changes to allow bikes on Stephen Avenue at a Transportation and Transit committee meeting on Wednesday.

Currently, municipal bylaws prohibit cycling along the pedestrian walkway.

However, Stephen Avenue (from 3 St. S.W. to 1 St. S.E.) is set to be used as an east-west connection for the Centre City Cycle Track pilot project, requiring that cycling be permitted.

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The pilot project will include new cycling routes on:

• 5 Street (on the east side from 3 Ave. S.W. to 17 Ave. S.W.)
• 12 Avenue (on the north side from 11 St. S.W. to 4 St. S.E.)
• 8 Avenue / 9 Avenue (on the north and south sides from 11 St. S.W. to 3 St. S.W.

The Centre City Cycle Track is scheduled to launch in just over a month, on June 30th.

In preparation, city crews have been changing signal patterns, painting lines and putting up curbs to create new lanes which separate vehicles from cyclists.

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