Project is in planning stage, does not yet have price tag
by Sadie Jo Smokey – Apr. 21, 2011
The Arizona Republic
This fall, north-central Phoenix may get a bike-lane connection between the Arizona Canal and the Uptown Metro light-rail station. But it will require cutting out two lanes for vehicles on Central Avenue between Bethany Home and Camelback roads.
“My primary goal is to provide a link between riders who use the canal and the Metro station,” city traffic engineer Kerry Wilcoxon said. “Right now, they don’t have access between Seventh Avenue and Seventh Street.”
The project, which is in the planning stage and therefore does not have a price tag, would add one bike lane northbound and one southbound on the southern stretch of the route, providing cyclists a route between the start of the Murphy Bridle Path (at Bethany Home Road) and Camelback Road.