Birmingham Bike Routes Should Be Ready By Summer

BIRMINGHAM, MI – Getting around Birmingham on two wheels will be easier and safer with neighborhood connector routes for bicyclists recently approved by the City Commision.

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The project was recommended three years ago as part of an initiative to make Birmingham streets more accessible to different modes of transportation, The Birmingham Eccentric reports.

Existing streets are used in most cases, and the system relies on a series of directional signs and pavement markings containing a bike symbol and arrow that remind motorists to share the road with cyclists.

Exceptions are along Oak Street and North Eton Avenue, where half-mile long bike lanes were installed.

» For more specifics about the bicycle connector routes, go to hometownlife.com.

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