To the Editor:

On Sunday May 20, a team of volunteers of all ages came out to create temporary, dedicated bike lanes on Wiggins Street from Sylvia Beach Way (where the Spring Street garage driveway exits) along Hamilton Avenue to Walnut Lane and Chestnut Street.

Members of the Princeton Bicycle Advisory Committee would like to say a big “Thank You!” to everyone who has made the so-called Beta Bike Lane along Wiggins and Hamilton a reality.

This stretch of public road is a key crosstown link that connects many neighborhoods, the high school, and the middle school with the public library and the central business district. Heavy traffic along this route makes it difficult for cyclists to use (in its usual configuration), and there are no good alternatives, especially to the central business district.

These temporary bike lanes will test how all users — pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists — experience sharing this roadway. The municipality especially wants to know whether cyclists feel safe and comfortable riding this route now that there is dedicated space for them, whether drivers feel less stress with bicycles out of the traffic lanes, what the neighbors think, what the students think, and if pedestrians feel better about walking on the sidewalks, with fewer cyclists opting to use them.

We encourage everyone to put on a bike helmet and come out and try the bike lanes — and tell us how it feels to ride on a space of your own on the public roadway! An online survey is available at princetonnj.gov.

Thank you.

The Princeton Bicycle Advisory Committee