Thank you for posting JHop!

During New Haven Bike Month this past May, the Whalley Main Streets Team (in particular, Nadine Herring and Chris Peralta) hosted the 1st ever biking event in the Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills. At least over 150 people came out – kids, families, older folks — all on their bikes. Milone & Macbroom, an urban planning firm, even worked with some neighborhood kids to built a temporary pop-up bike lane on Winthrop.

From that event and others, it was clear that many neighbors in the Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills and nearby Dixwell neighborhood would love more biking infrastructure. In fact, here's a quick video made during New Haven Bike Month showing many neighbors give their reason why they want protected bike lanes in their neighborhood: http://www.newhavenbikemonth.com/4lanes/

Sending this issue to Nadine for input she might have too!

Thank you so much for posting this issue Jonathan! As someone who rides my bike down Goffe on occasion to get to work I would personally love to see this become reality, but I've also seen many neighborhood kids and others who live in Beaver Hills, Dixwell and Westville ride through this area on a regular basis and it would make it much easier and safer for all of us.

As Caroline said, we had a great turnout for our 1st bike month event on Whalley and one of the things we heard a lot of was that we need to get bike lanes in our area to encourage even more people to ride safely. As someone who bikes as my primary form of transportation now, I am really happy to see more of these conversations happening in our neighborhood and would readily support a plan like this and I know my neighbors would too!

A question: would it be necessary to reduce or remove any tree lawn area along Goffe Street or Goffe Terrace (the residential portion of the street past Crescent)? Ward 28 is pretty challenged in its green spaces as it is. Would any stretch along Goffe Street or Terrace need to be widened to accommodate bike lanes? It certainly would slow traffic on the street to accommodate bikes (not a bad thing).

New Haven resident,
The details would need to be worked out by the city, but I don't think the roadway would not need to be widened - only the on-street parking along the north side of the street would need to be removed, which shouldn't be an issue since no houses face that side of the street and no one currently parks there. Parking on the south side of Goffe Street would need to remain in order to serve all of the multi-family houses along that side of the street though.

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