City to hold open-house style meeting June 9 for bike, ped ‘priority corridors’
Nida and Steven Graham appreciate a 990-foot stretch of trail in between Middle Grove and Madison County Transit’s Nature Path on the west side of Route 157 final yr.
Jeff Helmkamp | For the IntelligencerThe public is invited to attend an open home-type assembly to offer enter on a new plan that focuses on somewhere around 10 “priority corridors” for choices and enhancements to inter-metropolis transportation.
Enhancements could incorporate extended walking and bicycle trails, wider sidewalks, and on-street pavement markings – between other aesthetic and functional additions. The public meeting will consist of visual aids this kind of as large maps and visioning boards, and will choose put on Thursday, June 9 from 5–7 p.m. at the Most important Street Local community Center, 1003 N. Major St., in Edwardsville.
The plan’s overarching goal is to broaden and rework the present pedestrian and bike procedure made use of primarily for recreation, into an choice transportation community that allows people and site visitors to appreciate Edwardsville devoid of the need to have for a automobile. Community input is vital in the refinement of the plan’s a lot of elements, that could also contain facilities such as bicycle parking, consuming fountains and signage.
“It’s vital for us to provide a cohesive community for all sorts of trail consumers through the town,” reported Community Will work Director Eric Williams. “We hope people will attend the meeting to share their feelings and concepts on where we should really concentration our notice future.”
Edwardsville been given a Local community Planning Grant from the Metro East Park and Recreation District in 2021 to produce a Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Approach. Though most current path amenities in the town are owned, managed and operated by Madison County Transit (MCT), the metropolis has built initiatives to hook up the community of trails to area locations and neighborhoods.
Edwardsville is household to more than 20 miles of off-highway trails (both MCT- and town-owned) and 10 miles of on-road accommodations (bike lanes). MCT is organizing extra than a mile of new facilities in Edwardsville (via the Monarch Valley and Yellowhammer trail connectors) and the metropolis has funding for nearly 3 miles of new off-highway trails. Development has by now started on the Route 66 Path, which runs parallel to Freeway 157, as perfectly as the 2nd Road connector.
Input can be presented electronically by way of a survey at cityofedwardsville.com/BikePed beginning Friday by June 30.
