Orlando Bicycle Plan Update

When the city was developing the first bike plan 32 years ago - a time when treating bicycles the same as cars and trucks was still widely regarded as the best way to accommodate people biking; installing road signs acknowledging bicycle presence was considered radical; and the world wide web had just been introduced - it would have been hard for anyone to anticipate what bicycling in Orlando would look like today. Now, entire bridges are built solely for bicyclists and pedestrians; streets are lined with a shared network of electric bicycles, and record numbers of young people are choosing to live car-free.

Bicycle planning practices have experienced a recent and significant paradigm shift, similar in magnitude to the changes in the early 1990s that ultimately inspired the city’s first bike plan. The 2025 Bicycle Plan update will stay true to the essence of the original bike plan vision, and the 2030 bicycle plan vision provides succinct and clear expectations that directly reflect new best practices for bikeway network planning based on:

• Who: Everyone - residents and visitors of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
• What: Low-stress bikeways
• Why: As a means of transportation

• An updated visionary bikeway network and implementation approach to get facilities on the ground as soon as possible.
• Updated data and analyses showing where/what crashes are most prevalent and aligning efforts with Vision Zero.
• Strategies to enhance safety for those using bicycles, e-bikes, e-scooters, and other person electric vehicles.
• Other policy and program recommendations that further support a bicycle-friendly culture.

Comfort – Make bicycling within the city comfortable and convenient for people of a wide range of ages and abilities.

• Increase bike parking locations
• 20% more miles of separated bikeways
  
  

Connectivity – Create and maintain an integrated network of low stress bikeways connecting residents to activity centers, schools, workplaces, parks and regional bikeway networks.

• Increase total miles of bikeways
• Achieve a higher citywide bikescore
  
  

Access – Ensure that people from all neighborhoods, abilities and income levels in the city have access to bicycling infrastructure and resources.

• Increase share of total bikeways across neighborhoods.
• Increase share of separated bikeways across neighborhoods.
  
  

Safety – Improve the safety of people bicycling within the city through engineering education and enforcement.

• Decrease the bicycle danger index
• Eliminate fatal bicycle crashes
  
  

Culture – Build a culture of bicycling through programs and policies.

• Increase the number of people who bike to work
• Increase the number of bike events per year
• Increase the average monthly trail users