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BPAC reports on outreach, audits and new bike-ped master plan grant; council and staff highlight data needs
Summary
The Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee presented its year-end report, outlined outreach and audit work, and described priorities including wayfinding, data collection and a forthcoming bike-ped master plan grant.
The Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) presented its year-end report to the Springfield City Council work session, describing outreach events, safety audits and two reconstituted subcommittees focused on accessibility/connectivity and education/outreach.
Michael Liebler, the City of Springfield transportation planning engineer who staffs BPAC, introduced the report and turned the presentation over to Keith Dickey, BPAC chair. Dickey summarized the committee's 2024 activities: community outreach and events (including May bike month), walk and bicycle safety audits in locations including Glenwood, G Street and Main Street, Rosa Park Path and the Harlem Gateway area, and a path-etiquette campaign. Dickey said the committee sought to improve the city's Walk Bike Springfield web resources and to increase visibility of existing tools.
Dickey and Liebler said the committee will support a new city bike-ped master plan that staff obtained grant funding to create; the plan will inform future infrastructure investments and identify priorities such as wayfinding signs, low-cost safety improvements and targeted projects that improve connectivity. BPAC also said it will pursue better data collection for multimodal trips: Dickey noted efforts with regional partners (LCOG, LTD) to collect before-and-after counts for infrastructure improvements, and staff said one counter on the North Bank Trail at D Street recorded roughly 600 daily trips, a high count for the local bike network.
Councilors asked about bike-fix stations, composting of food waste (from earlier discussion), electric bicycles, and locations where counters and data should be collected. BPAC said there had been difficulty sourcing Buy America-compliant bike-fix stations but that other local entities have installed them. The committee asked council to continue supporting low-cost wayfinding and small striping projects while the master plan and data collection program move forward.
Dickey closed by listing upcoming events for May bike month and by inviting councilors to community activities; no formal action was taken.
