Part 2 of report: New & improved bike/ped facilities--Unincorporated Lee County

This week BikeWalkLee released a comprehensive report on new and improved bike/ped facilities throughout Lee County.  The first part was an overview of the entire county.  In this part (Blog post #2), the report focuses on unincorporated Lee County.  Click here to read the full report.

(Exhibit  from Lee MPO Countywide Bicycle Pedestrian Master Plan, adopted May 2011 (2010 data )

Note:  bike/ped facilities are shown in linear miles vs. lane miles and only include arterial and collectors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

New and improved bike/ped facilities on all public roadways in Unincorporated Lee County: 2011-13

(in lane miles, i.e., both sides of bike lanes and sidewalks are counted)

Year	New Wayfinding (2 sides)	Conver. to bike lanes (2 sides)	New on-road bike facil . (2 sides )	New shared use paths	New sidewalks (both sides counted)	Improved bike/ped (e.g. widened)
2011					1.6
2012	65.4	41.4	1.7	5.9	10.3
2011 & 2012 actual	65.4	41.4	1.7	5.9	11.9
2013 planned			6.3	3.0	10.6
3 yr total	64.5	41.4	8.0	8.9	22.5

 Projects completed in 2012:

•  Recreational Loop (Tour de parks) Demonstration Project (Gladiolus Dr, Six Mile Cypress, Ten Mile Linear Park, Colonial Blvd, Treeline Ave, Daniels Pkwy) This project connects Lakes Regional Park, Lee County Sports Complex (Hammond Stadium), Six Mile Slough Preserve Park, and Jet Blue Park. The Tour de Parks Route primarily uses off-road bike paths. A bike route was created with waypoints and distance information signage. The Tour de Parks loop has 48.4 lane miles of on-road and off-road facilities.
• County Parks and Rec has created a great map and brochure of the Tour de Parks Loop, which they have posted on their general website, as well as on the webpage for each of the parks that are part of the "Tour de Parks" Loop.  The file has been compressed so that it is easy to download on a smart phone.

University Loop Demonstration Project (Ben Hill Griffin Pkwy, Estero Pkwy, Three Oaks Pkwy, Alico Rd) This project involved converting the existing paved shoulders into bike lanes with signage and pavement markings, and also creating a bike route with waypoints and distance information signage.  The University Demonstration Loop is 17 lane miles. LeeDOT  is still working with FDOT to get signage and pavement markings approved on Alico Road.

•  Colonial Blvd. (west of I-75 to Lee Blvd.) Road widening project with 5.5 lane miles of new bike lanes and 2.75 miles of new bike path.   (see Feb. 6th blog post on completion of Colonial shared use path.

•  Six Mile Cypress Pkwy (Daniels Pkwy to Heritage Palms entrance) Road widening with 6.3 lane miles of new bike lanes and 3.15 miles of new bike path on the west side.

• Homestead Road Paved Shoulder (Theodore Vail St. to Veteran’s Park in Lehigh Acres) Installed 6 ‘ paved shoulder along Homestead Rd. on the east side. The Homestead Rd. paved shoulder is 1.76 miles (one side only)

 Bike Lane Conversions: (total of 41.4 lane miles)

• Treeline Ave. Bike Lane Conversion (Alico Rd. to Colonial Blvd.) This project involved converting the existing paved shoulders into bike lanes with signage and pavement markings. The Treeline Ave. bike lane conversion is 17.4 lane mile.

•  Ben Hill Griffin Bike Lane Conversion (Corkscrew Rd. to Alico Rd.) This project involved converting the existing paved shoulders into bike lanes with signage and pavement markings. The Ben Hill Griffin bike lane conversion is 8.4 lane miles.

•  US 41 bike lane conversion (in southern Lee County), converted paved shoulders to designated bike lanes on US 41 from the Collier County line to south of Corkscrew Road (15.6 lane miles), including “yield to bikes” signs – completed in March 2011 (FDOT project)

• Pine Island Rd. bike Lane conversion (US 41 to Del Prado Blvd): As part of a resurfacing project, bicycle keyholes were installed and existing paved shoulders were converted to marked and signed bike lanes (5.4 lane miles).  (FDOT project)

Resurfaced the following shared use paths: 

• Summerlin Rd. path (Maple Ave. to College Pkwy) 1 mile of path was re-surfaced.  (See  Aug. 8th blog post on Summerlin Rd. bike/ped improvements project.)
•  Three Oaks Pkwy (Alico Rd. to Corkscrew Rd.) major concrete repairs and path resurfacing.  (See April 10th blog post on Corkscrew Rd. biking improvements.)

• Path pavement management
• LeeDOT also had their pavement management contractor examine all existing LCDOT maintained bike paths and produce a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) and map. This will be a valuable tool to evaluate pavement conditions in path inventory and help guide LCDOT when facilities need to be resurfaced.

Sidewalks Constructed 2012: (total of 10.33 lane miles) 

• Sunniland Blvd. (Park Rd. to Lee Blvd., and 25^th St. W (Unice Ave. to Sunniland Blvd.) 4.4 lane miles of new sidewalk (2 sides) 
•  Atlantic Ave. (Pine Island Rd to Monterey St)1.04 lane miles of new sidewalk (2 sides)
• Tennessee Ave. (Pine Island Rd. to Clark St.) 0.38 lane miles of new sidewalk (2 sides)
• Clark St. (Tennessee Ave. to Pacific Ave) 0.24 lane miles of new sidewalk (2 sides)
•  2^nd Ave (Maple Dr. to Oak Dr.) 0.28 lane miles of new sidewalk (2 sides)
•  6^th Ave (Maple Dr. to Cypress Dr.) 0.84 lane miles of new sidewalk (under construction) (2 sides)
• 10^th Ave. (Maple Dr. to Oak Dr.) 0.84 lane miles of new sidewalk (under construction) (2 sides) 
•  71 Development Orders (DO)with pedestrian facilities included on them in Lee County right-of-way, with approximately 2 lane miles of new facilities (2 sides)
•  16 Limited Development Orders (LDO) have been approved with pedestrian facilities included on them in Lee Co. right-of-way, with approximately 1 lane mile of new facilities (2 sides)
•  McGregor Blvd (in unincorp. Lee): 0.15 miles of new sidewalk added on west side (1 side) in conjunction with resurfacing project from Edinburgh to north of College Pkwy (FDOT project)

 Projects to be completed in 2013

• Matlacha Bridge (in Pine Island), with on-road bike lanes and sidewalks (2 sides), scheduled to be completed in Jan. 2013.  Approximately 0.2 lane miles of new bike lanes and .2 miles of sidewalks.

•  Metro Extension project:  New eight-foot shared use paved pathway on west side with scenic views of Six Mile Cypress Slough along new roadway from Six Mile Cypress Parkway to Alico Road (3 miles) and five-foot signed and marked bike lanes (6 lane miles) – part of Metro Parkway Extension project expected to finish in fall 2012 (FDOT project)

·         New sidewalks: (total of 19.2 lane miles)

•  US 41 in south Fort Myers: new eight-foot sidewalk on both sides of US 41 from south of Daniels Parkway to south of Palm Drive (1.8 miles) – completion expected very soon/fall 2012  (FDOT project)   
•  In North Fort Myers, on US 41 from North Bay Park to Pine Island Road/SR 78, approximately 3.3. lane miles of new sidewalks to fill gaps on both east and west side of US 41.  Project also includes new bicycle and pedestrian ramps – project started late September 2012 and completion expected spring 2013 (FDOT project)   
•  McGregor Blvd. sidewalk projects (FDOT project)   
•  McGregor Blvd: 0.31 miles of new sidewalk from Travers Lane to Dean Way on west side (1 side) 
•   McGregor Blvd: 0.427 miles of new sidewalk from Argyle Dr to Davis Dr on east side (1 side)  
• McGregor Blvd: 0.08 miles of new sidewalk from Peck Ave to Bayside Dr on west side (1 side)
• McGregor Blvd: 0.55 miles of new sidewalk from College Pkwy to Wilson Ave on east side (1 side)