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9/18/84 Page -19- Mr. Lanternman stated that in researching the guidelines for on street bike lanes, they looked at ASHTO guidelines - the nationally recognized standards and speci- fications. He also contacted the City of Boulder and reviewed their bicycle program. Both these sources required a minimum of 4' additional pavement for on street bike lanes with the addition of 2' curb and gutter. The optimum is 5' additional pave- ment on each side. Mr. Lanterman depicted on the drawings where these would be located in the City of Louisville. He also stated that the City should still stress a com- plete off-street pedestrian and bicycle system in undeveloped areas of the City, most notably Homart and McStain. These proposed changes to the standards will only strengthen the City's long term develop- ment of a non-vehicular transportation system. Engineer Ken Huson advised that adding the on street bike lanes to both sides of the major arterials by the optimum of 5" would increase costs by 18%. Planner Lanternman stated that the Boulder County bike lane will connect with the City on South Boulder Road and continue to Lafay- ette. Presently construction is going on to the west of the City and there will be two 8' bike lanes incorporated there and also there is going to be bike lanes in Lafayette for a link. In a County survey that was done, one of the biggest concerns was a safe way to get out to ride Morgul Bismark across the Boulder/Denver turnpike Another one was east-west along Dillon Road tieing to the eastern part of the County. One of the bikeways recommendations that have been presented to the County Commissioners was for the County to have some joint fund- ing with the City on the construction of a bike lane on McCaslin Blvd. They recognize that as an important priority county-wide. In reply to Councilman Luce's inquiry Mr. Lanternman stated that in the existing standards for arterials there is no parking allowed. Councilman Luce commented that consistently if the bike lanes are not maintained they will not be used and we should be aware of this if the bike lanes are constructed.