Acacia Avenue Will Get Striped Bike Lane
Acacia Avenue, from the south city limit to Chapman Avenue, will get a striped bicycle lane.
The City Council earlier this month overturned a Transportation and Circulation Commission decision against the bike lane.
Council members voted 4 to 1 for a project that will reduce the four-lane street to two lanes--one in each direction--with a center left-turn lane.
The majority of the council agreed with residents and bicyclists, who said the change would make riding bicycles on Acacia safe. In addition, it will be the city’s only north-south bike route that would connect to the Santa Ana River Trail.
Councilman F. Richard Jones, who opposed the action, said heavy traffic on Acacia will become worse when the lanes are reduced. “Six thousand cars a day and 60 bicycles,” he said. “That’s 100 to 1. . . . This street will remain a relatively busy street.”
The cost for striping the bicycle lane and creating the middle lane is estimated at about $30,000.
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