WEAR PENSACOLA, Fla. — The Road Diet on North Palafox Street is officially underway.
The re-striping started last week and will take a month to complete.
The city is taking the road from four lanes down to two… And adding seven-foot-wide bike lanes in each direction between Cervantes and Yonge streets.
The new bike lanes are meant to help the cyclists who travel that way every day.
“I actually lived on that road when I moved back here from college," Mayor DC Reeves said. "It’s a big wide roadway, four and five lanes wide that certainly does not need that type of infrastructure in terms of activity.”
"This is my only way of getting out," bike rider Evan Haddox said. "This is how I get around, go to do my shopping, or do grocery shopping."
Haddox says he has reaped the consequences of the city having so few bike lanes."I’ve been hit by several cars," Haddox said. "It’s a wonder I ain’t dead yet."He says this road diet should help.Tom Pilcher who co-owns Cyclesports Bicycles agrees that any new bike lanes in the city can help."As a cyclist, I like bike lanes," Pilcher said. "Bike lanes are really good, it gets people out in places where they probably wouldn’t have ridden anymore."He says there are some problems with picking such a busy road when there are some better options nearby."If you went one block or two blocks over or say two or three blocks over, the roads go the same way," Pilcher said. "There is […]
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