Provide bicycle lanes or pathways

Rationale: Bicycle lanes offer infrastructure proven to increase safe cycling. This decreases traffic accidents and increases rates of cycling, ultimately contributing to increased physical activity and psychological well-being, as well as decreased community congestion and air pollution.

Requirements

Demonstrate compliance with one of the options below:

Option 1 - Protected Bicycle Lanes (Full Credit):

To achieve full credit, demonstrate compliance with all of the following requirements:

1. Provide access to a bicycle lane or pathway located within a 1/2-mile or 800-meter walking route from a main building entrance of 51% of the regularly occupied buildings within the site.
2. Ensure that the identified bicycle lane or pathway is a minimum of 1 mile or 1600-meters long in one direction.
3. Ensure that the identified bicycle lane or pathway is either fully separated from automobile traffic or separated from automobile traffic through physical barriers.

Option 2 - Painted Bicycle Lanes (Full Credit):

To achieve full credit, demonstrate compliance with all of the following requirements:

1. Provide access to a bicycle lane or pathway located within a 1/2-mile or 800-meter walking route from a main building entrance of 51% of the regularly occupied buildings within the site.
2. Ensure that the identified bicycle lane or pathway is a minimum of 1 mile or 1600-meters long in one direction.
3. Ensure that the identified bicycle lane or pathway is marked as designated for bicycle use only through color coding, material selection, or sharrows.

Compliance Documentation

Types of compliance documentation required:

• Annotated maps
• Annotated plans
• Annotated photographs