Preliminary plans for the first protected bike lane to come to Downtown Cleveland are lined up for public feedback in the next few months.
The Memorial Bridges Loop, a three-mile two-way bike lane that will link Ohio City with Downtown’s Gateway District, will be the next major cycle project to head towards public scrutiny, Phil Kidd, manager of the city’s Complete & Green Streets program, announced in an email newsletter this week.
In its current rendition, the Loop would allow bike riders to pedal from Progressive Field along the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge to the West Side Market, up north to the future Irishtown Bend Park, then over the Detroit-Superior Bridge to Huron and Ontario.
[content-2] Which, bike advocates say, is a long time coming: the only truly protected lanes, with white delineator posts and green-hued paint, are mere slivers near Gordon Square and in front of the West Side Market.
Spokes, per se, without the hub. Downtown has lanes—like on Euclid and Superior avenues—yet they lack dividers intended to keep cars from swerving inside of them.