I am writing to support the Bunts Road rehabilitation project to include the multi-use path. Recent crashes throughout the city and the Active Transportation Plan have both shown that our roads in Lakewood, as is, are not all safe for our vulnerable road users. Having a separate, dedicated path for pedestrians, people on bikes, and other multi-modal forms of transportation shows the city’s dedication to prioritizing people over cars. It will connect main routes around the city and provide equitable means of accessibility to local businesses and schools. In following through with this plan, you are doing the right thing for our residents and committing to the unique aspects of what makes Lakewood special. We are a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive community, and this should not stop with how someone travels through it. Thank you for all of your hard work towards making this a safer city for all.

I wish to comment on the proposed 10 foot wide bike path for Bunts Rd. Bunts is an extremely busy road which makes it a challenge for residents to exit and enter their driveways. Adding the path further, and unnecessarily, complicates the use of our driveways. As with all residential streets in Lakewood Bunts is a neighborhood of families. Sidewalks belong in neighborhoods, not multi use paths. The metroparks and Lakewood Park make sense for these paths. Bunts Rd does not. Neighbors walk to each other’s homes. Neighbors congregate in front yards to visit. Residents go for walks in the neighborhood. They walk their dogs. They push their children in strollers. I am requesting that members of our city council exercise caution and common sense and remove the multi use path from the Bunts Rd project and simply repair the neighborhood’s existing sidewalks.
Thank you.

I am writing in opposition to the proposed bike path being built down Bunts Road. Losing all of the beautiful tree lawn trees which were paid for by tax payer dollars in the past seems foolish. It is already difficult to pull out onto the street from Bunts driveways, and I truly fear that there will be resulting accidents and injuries if the city follows through with this plan. I also find it disheartening that residents were not given notice of this bike path until it was deeply into the planning stage. I urge the city of Lakewood to listen to its residents and scrap the Bunts bike path idea which will cause disruption at best and potential harm at worst.