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Bethel Park adopts 2025 Active Transportation Plan despite public concerns about survey and costs
Summary
The Municipality of Bethel Park unanimously adopted its 2025 Active Transportation Plan on April 13, 2026. A resident speaker at the meeting called the plan's community survey biased toward walkers and cyclists and said the plan lacked cost estimates for proposed elements.
The Bethel Park City Council unanimously adopted the Municipality of Bethel Park 2025 Active Transportation Plan at its April 13 meeting.
Councilmember moved to approve Resolution R-4-13-26-A to adopt the plan; the roll-call vote was 8-0. Adoption makes the plan the municipality’s official guiding document for pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure and directs staff to begin implementation steps outlined by the planning department.
During public comment earlier in the meeting, resident Kevin Sheehan said he believed the survey used in the plan’s development was "biasedly done to a pro walking pro bicycle people" and asked for a redo of the survey before the plan is implemented. Sheehan also said the plan lacked publicly stated cost estimates for its elements and warned that Bethel Park’s hilly topography and existing capital constraints make sidewalk and lane reductions impractical.
Councilmembers did not provide detailed cost figures during the meeting. The planning department will publish the adopted plan and begin work on next steps; implementation will require further project-level design, public outreach, and budgeting decisions before construction or right-of-way changes occur.
The plan’s adoption does not itself authorize construction or funding commitments; those will be addressed separately through capital budgeting and project approvals.
