Corridor Concepts

The concept would establish a protected bike lane from Holcomb Avenue to 5th Street on Sinclair / Lake Street, transition to Evans Avenue using the 5th Street parking protected bike lane and then create a protected bike lane from 5th Street to 9th Street. Each roadway in this corridor concept is identified as a Primary Emergency Vehicle Route (PEVR) which restricts the use of vertical deflection to reduce vehicle speeds; therefore no vertical deflection is incorporated into the project concept. Instead, the concept design relies on creating separation between uses in order to create a low-stress facility. Further traffic calming may be achieve through the use of modal filtering elements between Liberty Street and Holcomb Avenue. This concept would result in the loss of nearly 230 parking spaces including near UNR (69 stalls) and in the Midtown area (35 stalls). Additionally, maintaining protection for northbound bicyclists may not be feasible between 4th Street and E Plaza Street due to the presence of 5 RTC bus bays which have both ingress and egress movements along this stretch. (This concept has been refined to provide a parking protected bike lane for southbound bicyclists and a bike lane with 1' wide buffer for northbound bicyclists. Parking impacts have also been updated. Please see full report for latest concept).