95th Avenue bike lanes may detour onto service roads

City councillors will examine ifthere's enough room for vehicles to share the road with cyclistson95th Avenuebetween 156th and 163rd streets.

Some councillors want bicycles shunted to the service road overthe seven-block stretch, returning asegment of the busy west-end corridor tofour lanes of traffic.

However in a report to be considered at the city transportation meeting next Wednesday, traffic plannerssay relocating the bike lanes would cost $1.1 million and do little to improve traffic flow or safety for motorists or cyclists.

The 95th Avenue bike route between 142 Street and 189 Street was builtin October 2013, aneight-kilometre stretch linkingwest Edmonton, throughMacKinnon Ravineinto downtown.

The report says while11,000 vehicles use 95thAvenue each day, only50 cyclists use the bike lanes, an increase from the 20 per day prior to 2014.