The Ithaca Bicycle Plan was developed to outline a long-term vision for the City of Ithaca to increase bicycle use while also increasing safey for cyclists, pedestrians and motorists. Elements of this vision include identifying a bikeway network, bicycle parking standards and ordinance, identifying implementation and strategies and maintenance issues, and developing policies related to engineering, education, enforcement and encouragement. In the short-term, the plan identified a bikeway network and facilities plan to assist the City in effectively spending $80,000 in Transportation enhancement program funding received in 1994.
The development of the plan was prepared in consultation with a Client Committee appointed by the Mayor and through a series of four public workshops. Workshops included origins and destinations mapping sessions, bicycle facility standards and programs in other communities, and preliminary and final bikeway network planning.
Rick Manning was the Project Manager for Trowbridge & Wolf Landscape Architects with IMC Consulting Consulting Group. The plan was completed in 1997. |
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Bike lanes are common at Cornell University on East Hill in Ithaca.
 All of the buses in the TCAT fleet have bike racks.
The Short-Term Bikeway Network Plan is shown to the right. It includes the development of the Cayuga Waterfront Trail and a series on bike lanes and shared use lanes on state-owned highways that transect the City, and numerous city streets that connect key destinations within the City of Ithaca. |
