They are seeking funding for a bold new project that will paint a stripe – not a bike lane or path but merely a colored stripe in gutter or on curb – that indicates the best streets to take to go from Central Falls to India Park. The route has been decided, all familiar roads to cyclists: Alfred Stone, Blackstone Blvd, River Road, Gano. At various points, e.g., Roosevelt Blvd, sharrows will alert motorists to cyclists in their lane.

They don’t want to wait 6 to 10 years for RIDOT’s official bikeway, feel it’s important to make an interim accommodation. Includes something I’ve been talking about for at almost a decade: an actual bikepath that tangents from Gano through a city park along waterfront to Pitman St; supposedly, path will sit atop a flood control levee.

What remains is to get riders to use this route, which is why I promised to pass along this info. Since it will only be paint on streets already being ridden, don’t think that’ll be much of an issue.

TIGER spells out some of that funding.

http://www.newurbannews.com/15.2/tigergrants.html