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T Jacksonville attorney Chris Burns is an avid cyclist – logging more than 100 miles a week – and specializes in cycling law. 40 J MAGAZINE | WINTER <strong>2019</strong>
While Jacksonville is one of the country’s most dangerous cities for bicyclists, the city is planning on making Downtown a safer neighborhood for cyclists A wheel commute If Downtown is the last place you’d think of taking a bike ride, in the next couple of years, you might reconsider. The city is implementing improvements as part of its context-sensitive streets and mobility plans that will create a network of bike paths to make cycling through Downtown streets both convenient and safe. Right now, riding a bike Downtown is neither. Jacksonville is one of the most dangerous cities for bicyclists, with six cyclists killed last year and four as of September. And that’s an issue the city is trying to address as it works to turn Downtown into a residential neighborhood. This year the city adopted a Pedestrian Bicycle Master Plan and the 2030 Mobility Plan is under review by the state and is expected to come before the City Council in the spring. The plans lay out the strategy for integrating bicycle friendly features like protected bike lanes and bike racks into the Downtown infrastructure. Attorney Chris Burns, an avid cyclist, welcomes the city’s interest in making Downtown bicycle-friendly. He is chairman of the city’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee, which helped develop the Master Plan. Burns said the city needs to incorporate bicycle lanes and crosswalks into the traffic design of Downtown streets. “We need to design these things for people who are not super sophisticated about riding,” Burns said. “I’ve been riding 40 years, and I do in excess of 100 miles a week. I’m pretty comfortable in situations most people are uncomfortable with.” People who cycle Downtown need to be comfortable with delivery trucks, stop-and-go traffic and parked cars, Burns said. It’s not uncommon for cars to make right turns in front of cyclists, or to open car doors into the path of a bike. Motorists might be alert to cyclists in a residential neighborhood, but they don’t expect them on Downtown streets, Burns said. Cyclists contribute to the problem by darting in and out of traffic and ignoring traffic lights and signs. But the biggest problem facing cyclists who want to ride Downtown is getting there. By LILLA ROSS // Photos by BOB SELF WINTER <strong>2019</strong> | J MAGAZINE 41
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