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Worthington Bike-and-Ped Advisory Board outlines 2025 projects, asks council for continued support
Summary
The Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board presented a summary of past projects and a list of recommended 2025 infrastructure and program items, including sidewalk-gap work, bicycle boulevards, Olentangy Trail maintenance and safe routes to school efforts.
Rebecca Green, a member of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board, told the Worthington City Council on March 17 that the board will focus in 2025 on filling sidewalk gaps, advancing bicycle boulevard pilot findings, trail maintenance and safety programs.
The board’s presentation summarized accomplishments since 2020 — rapid-flash beacon crosswalks, a sidewalk-gap pilot around Kilborn Recreational Park, a bicycle boulevard pilot in Colonial Hills, mapped bike-rack locations, feasibility work at the Five Points intersection in Colonial Hills and coordinated crossings with railroad partners at the Northeast Gateway — and listed priorities for the coming year, including implementation of bicycle boulevard recommendations, additional sidewalk gap projects, Olentangy Trail maintenance and design work on Karen Avenue where a waterline project will create an opportunity to add bicycle infrastructure.
City staff said the sidewalk-gap pilot has been folded into the city’s annual street program, and that staff reach out to property owners before construction to offer the city-built sidewalk at no cost and to discuss driveway/landscape adjustments. The board noted the 2024 "Stroll & Roll" safety event drew more than 100 participants and said it will expand outreach and social media communications in 2025.
Board members called attention to specific corridors where they want future work: Indianola/Colonial Hills (bicycle boulevard concepts), Worthington–Galena–Schrock area (a feasibility study to improve pedestrian connections near a COTA stop and Wilson Elementary School) and the 315/161 interchange (concept work to support future funding applications). The board also requested information about LinkUs and how that program might support future projects.
The presentation closed with an invitation for residents to attend board meetings and a reminder that many projects require coordination with partners such as ODOT and COTA.
Why it matters: the board’s recommended projects intersect with planned city capital work and may be funded through the capital improvements program; several items will require interagency coordination and later council action on appropriations.
