Alternative

Description of Alternative

Advantages

Disadvantages

1

No Build: The current layout is maintained, and no bike lane is constructed, no parking is removed, and signal timings remain unchanged.

- No loss of parking

- Better flow on the major road

- No cost

- Bike transit remains restricted to sharrows

- Excessive delays on College Ave and Chapel Ave

2

Bike Lane: A new bike lane is constructed along the length of E Main St. connecting existing trails at the Newark and Pomeroy Rail Trail and west of the CSX at-grade railroad crossing. Parking is removed after the signalized pedestrian crossing and a lane is removed from E Main St. before the crossing.

- Increased safety for bike riders

- Increases visibility for business as traffic will proceed slower through the area

- Improved signal optimization and decreased delay on minor streets

- Loss of 24 parking spaces

- Loss of a lane of traffic along much of E Main St

- Increased delay on E Main St

- Could require significant cost