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Danville Bicycle Advisory Commission reelects chair, hears progress on bike master plan
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The commission reelected Chair Chris Heck and Vice Chair Angela Wong and heard a staff update on completed paving and new bike infrastructure, a planned Diablo Road separated trail segment, expanded video detection for intersections and Iron Horse Trail crossing upgrades.
Chair Chris Heck will continue to lead the Danville Bicycle Advisory Commission after members reelected him Jan. 20, 2026, and the commission also voted to keep Angela Wong as vice chair.
The meeting’s main substantive item was a staff update on the town’s bike master plan. Alan Shields, the town’s transportation manager, told the commission that staff has completed several paving projects and is installing more buffered bike lanes where roadway width allows, adding sharrows where it does not, and deploying downtown wayfinding signs to direct cyclists to primary bike corridors. “When you ask what is the town, what is the bike commission doing, we’re delivering projects,” Shields said.
Shields outlined several corridor projects coming in 2026 and 2027, including a long-anticipated Diablo Road trail project he described as the middle segment of a separated, Class 1 shared-use path that will link the Barber Hill Trail to trails built by a Magee Preserve developer toward Brumby Road and Blackhawk Road. For busy corridors such as Sycamore Valley Road, Shields said paving projects this year will include buffered bike lanes in most sections where sufficient roadway width exists.
The presentation also described spot improvements such as bike boxes and intersection markings and a multi-intersection video-detection rollout to support safer signal timing. “We believe by the end of this year, we’ll be able to cover 45 of our 56 intersections with video detection,” Shields said, adding that the system can detect vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists and will enable future signal-timing and counting work.
Commissioners pressed staff on evaluation. Several asked whether the town conducts pre/post studies to measure safety or ridership changes after treatments; Shields said the town does not run formal pre/post studies for each treatment but regularly reviews collision reports with the police department and monitors trends. Shields said staff will provide earlier collision analyses to the commission at a future meeting, noting the commission had seen an in-depth collision analysis in November.
Youth commissioner Connor Fitzpatrick also briefed the commission on outreach: he is producing short videos with fellow students to promote cycling; the commission asked where the videos will be posted and requested follow-up updates.
The meeting closed with scheduling and procedural items. The commission’s next regular meeting is March 23, 2026.
