A year into the 2025 Dallas Bike Plan, the city has finished two of the plan's 43 action items, has 25 under way and has not started the other 16, according to an update the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hears Monday, Oct. 19.
The briefing by Transportation and Public Works Director Gus Khankarli and transportation planning administrator Jana Wentzel is on the agenda for the committee's 1 p.m. meeting at City Hall.
Miles on the ground
The presentation puts the bike network already built at 92.38 miles. The plan's first phase, meant to be finished within five years, is expected to bring that to 122 miles. A second phase would reach 220 miles over 20 years or sooner if money allows, and the full network would total 525.8 miles.
Recently completed projects add up to 5.84 miles, including Medical District Drive from I-35 to Southwestern Medical Avenue, Elam Road, Lake June Road, Chalk Hill Road, Cheyenne Road and a Safe Routes to School project around Rosemont. Lanes on Harwood, Commerce, West Commerce and Zang were upgraded.
Projects under construction include the CBD Fair Park Link, Riverfront Boulevard and stretches of Main and Elm streets downtown, and 14 more are in design, among them Park Lane, Fair Oaks and Ross Avenue.
What is done and what is not
The two finished items are a yearly map of completed and upcoming bike routes and a maintenance schedule for sweeping, restriping and replacing separators. Staff also reported buying a new bike lane sweeper with DART money and adding concrete barriers and green paint to four existing lane segments.
Among the items not yet started are supporting a 3-foot passing law for drivers, bicycle-friendly driver training for city employees, standards for bike parking in the development code, and education for residents on where to put trash bins along bike lanes.
