Has anybody heard much about the Eastside Connector?
My mom saw this today on the Nextdoor website:
Eastside Connector Project
The City of Lansing is proposing a non-motorized project from Grand Avenue in downtown Lansing to the east side of the Frandor area. The project, which we are referring to as the Eastside Connector, would consist of a combination of bike lanes, pathways, and a signed bike route.
The facilities would serve students and residents living on the east side of Lansing traveling to/from the schools within the project area (Fairview, Pattengill, Eastern, Resurrection, Lansing Catholic and Lansing Community College) and those traveling to/from downtown or Frandor.
The bike lanes and bike routes would serve cyclists while the pathways would serve pedestrians and cyclists.
The City has met with representatives of the Lansing School District, Lansing Catholic Central High School, Gillespie Group (owner of the Armory and Sears property in Frandor), and the Michigan Department of Transportation regarding this project. Close to $500,000 in federal Congestion Mitigation Air Quality (CMAQ) has been approved for construction of this project (80% of the construction cost) in federal fiscal years 2018 and 2020. Approval to utilize the Armory property and Vine Street extended has been given by Gillespie Group and MOOT has approved of the reconfiguration of the intersections of Shiawassee Streets at Cedar and Larch Streets, which took place this year when the City repaved this block.
The City is seeking approval from the Lansing School District to construct the remainder of the pathway on District property, including the Eastern High School fields and Pattengill (future Eastern High School) properties.
If all approvals are obtained from property owners, the construction would be done in conjunction with the work planned for Pattengill (new Eastern High School) and the Eastern High School fields. The graphics on the following pages show the current draft alignment of the proposed project.
Wow!!! Very cool. It would be great to see this linked up to Downtown East Lansing via the GR bike lanes, perhaps routed up Valley Court to Albert St., and to campus maybe via the proposed Harrison "road diet", or perhaps down Beal to the Beal St. campus entrance.
This will be a great for bike commuters, a more direct route than the scenic river trail. I think you could go from Frandor to Downtown in around 20 minutes on what looks to be this very flat easy to ride route.
This is awesome. So the rivertrail mostly runs north/south and this project runs east. What are the chances we can get a connection to the Delta Twp trails to the west? A dedicated bike lane running along Willow could pretty much solve that. Or connecting to that existing bike lane on Saginaw somehow.
It looks like there would be enough room to build a protected bike lane, maybe even a small narrow median [with grass and flowers?] all the way to East Lansing. Kalamazoo Street past Hunter Park is really a mess these days, the bike lane is full of debris from the crumbling street surface, not really good for biking. It would so great if they repaved the whole length of the street or at least sweep it if they actually want people to use that bike lane.
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Has anybody heard much about the Eastside Connector?
My mom saw this today on the Nextdoor website:
Eastside Connector Project
The City of Lansing is proposing a non-motorized project from Grand Avenue in downtown Lansing to the east side of the Frandor area. The project, which we are referring to as the Eastside Connector, would consist of a combination of bike lanes, pathways, and a signed bike route.
The facilities would serve students and residents living on the east side of Lansing traveling to/from the schools within the project area (Fairview, Pattengill, Eastern, Resurrection, Lansing Catholic and Lansing Community College) and those traveling to/from downtown or Frandor.
The bike lanes and bike routes would serve cyclists while the pathways would serve pedestrians and cyclists.
The City has met with representatives of the Lansing School District, Lansing Catholic Central High School, Gillespie Group (owner of the Armory and Sears property in Frandor), and the Michigan Department of Transportation regarding this project. Close to $500,000 in federal Congestion Mitigation Air Quality (CMAQ) has been approved for construction of this project (80% of the construction cost) in federal fiscal years 2018 and 2020. Approval to utilize the Armory property and Vine Street extended has been given by Gillespie Group and MOOT has approved of the reconfiguration of the intersections of Shiawassee Streets at Cedar and Larch Streets, which took place this year when the City repaved this block.
The City is seeking approval from the Lansing School District to construct the remainder of the pathway on District property, including the Eastern High School fields and Pattengill (future Eastern High School) properties.
If all approvals are obtained from property owners, the construction would be done in conjunction with the work planned for Pattengill (new Eastern High School) and the Eastern High School fields. The graphics on the following pages show the current draft alignment of the proposed project.
Wow!!! Very cool. It would be great to see this linked up to Downtown East Lansing via the GR bike lanes, perhaps routed up Valley Court to Albert St., and to campus maybe via the proposed Harrison "road diet", or perhaps down Beal to the Beal St. campus entrance.
This will be a great for bike commuters, a more direct route than the scenic river trail. I think you could go from Frandor to Downtown in around 20 minutes on what looks to be this very flat easy to ride route.
Yeah this route will be great for commuters as well as leisure travel. Great to see movement here!
The colon at the end of your message has me hoping that you were trying to include a picture
Were you able to get a picture of the new bike lane?
There's a pic there, this is the URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcsnBXFVMAEpd3a.jpg
Oh, thanks! My browser had blocked it because it was loading from twitter
What does that second solid white line separate? It's nice to see more bike lines, would be nicer if they were protected though.
Agreed protected is the best way forward.
It looks like there would be enough room to build a protected bike lane, maybe even a small narrow median [with grass and flowers?] all the way to East Lansing. Kalamazoo Street past Hunter Park is really a mess these days, the bike lane is full of debris from the crumbling street surface, not really good for biking. It would so great if they repaved the whole length of the street or at least sweep it if they actually want people to use that bike lane.