Henrietta resident Karen Lankeshofer describes parts of her town as “little subdivisions divided by arterials.”
The town has a lot of arterials: big, busy streets like Jefferson and East Henrietta roads that are heavy with traffic all day, every day.
Lankeshofer, a longtime cycling and pedestrian advocate in the town and an avid bicyclist, doesn’t mean her description as an insult. It’s simply her way of summarizing the often-challenging environment for cyclists, which led her to approach Henrietta officials about creating low-stress bike boulevards. This year, the town established its first two…