New Wilmette Bike Route Planned
Wilmette officials are hoping for a $290,000 federal grant to help create an east-west bicycle route through the village.
The proposed route – along Glenview Road and Wilmette Avenue from the Glenview border to Ridge Road doesn’t connect with Wilmette’s downtown- and may not be as attractive as first thought.
The grant application submitted April 1 is still strong because the remaining legs of the proposed route will provide at least a partial way for bicyclists to cross the village from west to east, something Wilmette doesn’t have now.
Village officials who met with more than four dozen village residents last month agreed to remove the route’s proposed easternmost leg, between Ridge and Green Bay roads, after many of those residents said they didn’t want to lose parking along Wilmette Avenue to new bike lanes.
The proposed route that federal Department of Transportation officials will consider includes two stretches of Glenview Road. The first, between the Glenview border and Skokie Boulevard, would be reconfigured to have two 15-foot-wide shared bicycle-car lanes and an 11-foot-wide median. It currently has two 12-foot driving lanes and a 13-foot-wide median.
The second Glenview Road section, between Skokie Boulevard and Crawford Avenue, has two 11-foot lanes and 2-foot gravel shoulders. It would be reconfigured to include two 11-foot-wide car lanes and 4-foot wide bike lanes.
Both proposals include options that would widen and pave the existing gravel shoulders to provide room for bicycle lanes.
New Wilmette Bike Route Planned
Who: Village of Wilmette
What: east-west bike lane route
Along: Glenview Road, Wilmette Avenue
Mission: win $290,000 federal grant to help complete
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