In Hoboken: Bike Lanes May Be Coming To Washington Street

Hoboken, NJ – Do you support having six-foot bike lanes on Washington Street?

More than a hundred Hoboken residents crowded the City Council meeting on Monday to share their opinions about the bike lane proposal, part of the city’s planned redesign of Washington Street, a roadway that municipal officials have dubbed “Hoboken’s Most Dangerous Corridor.”

See related article: Hoboken’s ‘Most Dangerous Corridor’: Design Meeting For Washington Street Scheduled

With more than 300 reported crashes between 2013 and 2015 - including a pedestrian fatality – the street is due for a safety overhaul, according to city administrators.

The six-foot bike lanes were part of a package of initiatives proposed by the T&M Design Group during Monday’s meeting, and would ultimately eliminate double parking, a common practice for local shoppers, the Hudson County View reported.

According to a rendering of the proposed road configuration, the redesign would include:

• Protected bicycle lanes that would take bikes “off the sidewalks”
• The addition of loading zones, short-term parking spaces and other policy changes that would “address double parking by delivery vehicles and those running quick errands”

The proposed configuration can be seen online here.

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