From the Shorewood Pedestrian & Bicycle Safety Subcommittee:
Village residents often say they were attracted to Shorewood because it’s a pedestrian and bicycle friendly community, which values active lifestyles, and where kids can walk or bike to school. To ensure that community characteristic was not eroded, in 2015 Shorewood adopted its first Pedestrian & Bicycle Master Plan. Despite its name, the 2015 Plan covers a variety of issues, including multi-modal transportation, street-and-intersection design, and transit issues.
Since 2015, many things have changed regarding street design, and such things as the size, design and increased use of large pickup trucks and SUVs. Shorewood has also seen since then an increased use of different types of bikes, trikes and kid-bike seats, and the advent of new “micromobility” ways of getting around on our streets (such as by the use of e-bikes or e-scooters, or through the use of shared-bike systems such as Bublr).
So as to ensure Shorewood’s policies have not become outdated, and to take note of and address changes like the above, this year the Village will be reviewing and updating the 2015 Ped/Bike Master Plan.
As part of that process, the Village is holding its first Public Engagement Meeting regarding this project on Thursday, April 4. The meeting will be held at the lower level of the Village Center from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm.
The Village wants to hear from citizens on how they’d like to see the Village’s policies relating to pedestrians, bicycles, transit and other related issues change or stay the same. Do you have ideas about ways that Shorewood policies, streets or intersections might be changed, so Shorewood is a better, safer, and more-pleasant place to walk or bike, such that more folks feel more comfortable choosing non-car means of getting around?
If “yes,” we ask that you to bring your ideas to the April 4 meeting. Although not necessary, if you would like to review the 2015 version of the Village’s Ped/Bike Master Plan before the meeting, it is available at this link. For more information or to stay connected for this update, please visit the project website.