Broad Street Bicycle Boulevard meeting to be held Thursday in SLO

A meeting will be held Thursday in San Luis Obispo to kick off the process for developing the Broad Street Bicycle Boulevard Plan — a project intended to turn a section of the street into a low-speed shared roadway where bicycles are given priority over vehicles.

The Broad Street bike plan will look at Broad Street from Ramona to Monterey streets, including a future bicycle/pedestrian overcrossing of Highway 101, according to the city.

The bike boulevard is intended to provide a through route for bicyclists and pedestrians serving the downtown core and neighborhoods to the north of it, according to the 2013 Bicycle Transportation Plan. The plan includes projects that would create nearly six more miles of bicycle boulevards.

San Luis Obispo’s first bicycle boulevard, the Bill Roalman Bicycle Boulevard on Morro Street, was completed in October 2009 and extends a half-mile from Marsh Street to Santa Barbara Avenue.

Thursday’s meeting will run from 6 to 8 p.m. at the San Luis Obispo City-County Library, 995 Palm St. Residents are also encouraged to visit the city’s online forum to subscribe to project updates or provide feedback on the project at www.slocity.org/government/open-government/open-city-hall.

This story was originally published March 21, 2016 at 5:01 PM with the headline "Broad Street Bicycle Boulevard meeting to be held Thursday in SLO."