As a daily bike pedaler on Euclid Avenue, here’s an easy way for safer, two-way bike lanes.

The new two-way bike lane on University Avenue — from Waverly Avenue to Genesee Street — is 8 feet wide. It has a stripe down the middle, for cyclists going both directions.

The existing bike lanes on Euclid Avenue are 7 feet (north side of street) and 7-and-a-half feet (south side).

Widen the Euclid bike lanes to 8 feet each, with a stripe down the middle, like on University Avenue.

Thus, with odd and even parking on Euclid Avenue, we cyclists can use the empty lane, now widened to 8 feet, in both directions.

Two-way bike lanes would be a lot safer than pedaling alongside parked cars half the time.
 
Austin Ted Paulnack
Coordinator, Syracuse MoveOn
Syracuse University ’63