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City of Bloomington to expand bike lane safety measures along East 3rd Street

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The City of Bloomington has announced plans to move forward with a $107,500 road safety project to extend delineators along the bike lane from Indiana Avenue to Rose Avenue.

This expansion comes after the city installed barriers and delineators in March 2024 along East Third Street between Indiana Avenue and Eagleson Avenue.

Project Engineer Kendall Knoke said the first implementations between Indiana Avenue and Eagleson Avenue yielded positive results.

“We saw a lot of success with the phase one implementation of this project,” he said. “It had a lot of the desired outcomes, which are primarily safety."

He said that since the initial implementation, vehicles are no longer obstructing the bike lane for loading and unloading, meaning a safer path for bikers.

Knoke said for phase one of construction, which cost $35,200, the city used excess delineator poles and barriers.

“It was a kind of pilot program to see how the different types of materials were able to hold up in the field,” he said.

According to Knoke, Traffic Logix Cycle Lanes, which are designed to act as curbing along a roadway, proved more durable than rubber parking blocks. 

“In phase two, we are replacing those (rubber blocks) with the other product we use (Traffic Logix Cycle Lanes), which is kind of an engineered product specifically for this application,” he said. 

According to Knoke, phase two of construction will begin during spring break, the week of March 17. 

“We’re hoping that the safety of the roadway will be improved for everyone,” he said. 

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