At Monday’s Greenways Commission meeting, several updates brought members up to speed on the progress to construct new bike and pedestrian paths in Bowling Green’s west end and projects related to a grant received in March. 

The survey for determining where to fill in gaps in the paths for cyclists and pedestrians on the west side is nearing its end. 

According to Greenways coordinator Miranda Clements, four plans to make the area safer for pedestrians and cyclists have been developed based on input from several meetings Greenways has hosted in recent months to hear public opinion on where sidewalks and other trails are most needed.

These plans included a path near Lampkin Park and along Morgantown Road leading to Wal-Mart, and one that links Normalview Drive to Main Avenue.

The Greenways Commission recently circulated the survey at Parker-Bennett-Curry Elementary School and Dishman-McGinnis Elementary School and put it on surveymonkey.com, Clements said.

“We’ll get those results back, and then we’ll put that information plus the other complaints and input we got from the neighborhood and come up with just a small little report,” she said, adding that Greenways has not yet analyzed the feedback to the survey.

The Greenways Commission is also making headway on the bike rodeo it’s been getting together with funds received from the Paula Nye Memorial Grant, which is intended to inform Kentuckians about issues related to bike and pedestrian safety.

The bike rodeo is a movable obstacle course that teaches children about bicycle safety.

The commission held its first bike rodeo in May at Pedal for the Park, a fundraising event hosted by Friends of Mammoth Cave in Cave City, Clements said.  

Though cold weather limited turnout to the event, the rodeo served as an opportunity for the commission to get comfortable with hosting a bike rodeo, she said.

“We didn’t have that many people participate, but we did have enough to kind of test the kit out … and figure out how it works,” she said.

Greenways intends to hold a few bike rodeos at schools and camps during the summer, with the expectation that community groups will eventually borrow the kit from the commission and put on the rodeo themselves, Clements said.

At a cost of roughly $4,080, which is also covered by the Paula Nye Grant, the bicycle comfort rating map is also expected to be finished soon, Jennifer Tougas, the commission’s chairwoman, said.

“That’s a map of the city that shows for each road, sort of,  a … level for who would feel comfortable on that road,” she said.  

The commission is contracting with RPM Transportation Consultants, LLC, to update the map, which is more than 10 years out of date, Tougas said, adding that their results are due by July 15.  

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