Bike Lanes on Upper Gwynedd section of South Broad Street

UG Newsletter info on installation of bike lanes on South Broad Street.

UG Newsletter info on installation of bike lanes on South Broad Street.

As reported here earlier, the Upper Gwynedd section of South Broad Street – between Sumneytown Pike and Morris Rd. will, in the next few days, have the paint applied for bike lanes. To be clear, it will be a mixture of dedicated bike lane sections as well as several “sharrows” sections where existing turn lanes are being retained – however – this IS progress! Bike North Penn along with The Partnership TMA of Montgomery County  as part of their Bike More, Drive Less program have been pushing for bike lanes on South Broad Street since the fall of 2022 when re-surfacing of South Broad Street was announced.

We are hopeful, when Montgomery County resurfaces their section (targeted for 2025), between Sumneytown Pike and Lansdale Borough, connecting bike lanes will be added there and then some kind of connection can be made in Lansdale as part of their Active Transportation Plan, which is currently being organized.

There will be a celebration of the UG bike lanes on the evening of Tuesday, June 18, which will be part of Upper Gwynedd’s “Unplugged Week” organized by their Parks and Recreation Department at Parkside Place. The Partnership TMA of Montgomery County will be there with an info booth and will be sizing kids for bike helmets. If we can get enough Bike North Penn volunteers, we will be organizing two simultaneous group rides:

  • A short ride for families with younger children, at about 1.5 miles in length. It will head out the back if the park and do a loop of the neighborhood there before ending back into the park
  • Map of long ride route for June 18.

    Map of long ride route for June 18.

    A longer ride for adults and older kids, at about 6 miles, which will also head out through the back of the park, but using the cut through to West Point Pike, take us through the village of West Point, do and out and back on the new bike lanes on South Broad Street, then take a winding route through the Apollo neighborhood and finally back through West Point Village and back through the park.

More info on these rides and the June 18th even will be discussed at the Bike North Penn monthly organizational meeting on Thursday, June 13, at 7 PM, at the Eclipse Center for Creative Community, 30 Vine Street, Lansdale, PA 19446 (next to the Lansdale Post Office).