Kavanaugh Bike Lanes

In 2022, the City of Little Rock installed buffered bike lanes on Kavanaugh Boulevard from Markham to Rose and from west of Hillcrest Square to Van Buren (Fig. 1).  These bike lanes brought Kavanaugh closer to federal bikeway design guidelines, better protect people on bikes, people walking, and cars parallel parked on Kavanaugh, calm traffic, and provide other neighborhood and city benefits. Physical protections were proposed but never applied.

Figure 1.  Map of installed bike lanes and sharrows on Kavanaugh. 

To create space for bike lanes, parallel parking was removed on the north side of Kavanaugh from Markham to Pine.  Between Pine and Cedar, parallel parking switched to the north side of Kavanaugh to Rose.  From Rose to Spruce (through the business district), street configuration remain as was (sharrows and parallel parking on both sides).  Bike lanes were installed from midblock between Spruce and Monroe to midblock between Jackson and Van Buren (Fig. 2).

Figure 2.  More details about where parking and bike lanes were installed on different parts of Kavanaugh.  Note that the green lines in this map are simply to illustrate where the bike lanes were; green paint was not applied.

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