Morristown Bike Plan Moves Forward

After several years, many let out a happy sigh of relief when the Morristown Planning Board approved the bike plan unanimously on Thursday night.

“This plan has been in the works since 2007, so it is pretty exciting to see it on the agenda,” said Kendra Arnold, Co-Founder, Bike and Walk Morristown, in a recent Patch blog. 

The plan aims to get cyclists off sidewalks by creating shared street lanes via re-striping and signs. It also calls for bike safety education programs, and for studies about widening or narrowing certain roadways, as reported by Morristown Green.

“This provides guidance to the town engineer when they’re resurfacing roads… It ties in with the town’s Complete Streets policy, for the bicycle part. It says, ‘This is what we will try to do,’” said Phil Abramson of Jonathan Rose Companies, the town’s planning firm, as reported by Morristown Green.

The bike plan is one component of the town’s zoning master plan, which is being overhauled this year, according to Morristown Green.