Town officials this week revealed their plans to reconstruct part of New Park Avenue, with designs calling for what would be the town’s first-ever separated bike lanes. Up until now, bike lanes in West Hartford have only ever been painted lines on the roadway. But the town’s new $6 million plans to overhaul a stretch of New Park Avenue will provide cyclists with a safer mode of transportation through a two-way separated bike lane buffered by concrete curbing. Plans also call for a partial road diet, bringing travel lanes down from four to two with traffic sharing a center left turn line, just like the road diet implemented on North Main Street. The project will also create a raised platform bus stop with enhanced crosswalks that will shorten the distance pedestrians have to travel to cross the roadway. The project will be funded by $3.7 million in state funding, while the remaining $2.3 million will be funded by the town itself. Plans should go out to bid soon with construction starting in the spring of 2025.
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