Route A: Fall Creeker
Cayuga Street from Buffalo Street with two-way protected bike lane along Dewitt Park. Rendering courtesy of Whitham Planning & Design, PLLC.
Route A, the Fall Creeker, is a north-south route that connects the neighborhoods of Downtown and Fall Creek and reaches two important destinations: Ithaca High School and Boynton Middle School. The community-wide appeal of the schools plus other beloved places like Stewart Park, Gimme! Coffee, and Northstar Pub, means that this route is important to many residents in Ithaca, not just Fall Creek residents.
The importance of the Fall Creeker is reflected in the high usage of bikeshare along this route as well as on-street bike infrastructure that has been built: the Cayuga Street Bike Lanes between Cascadilla St and IHS, and the Tioga Street Bike Boulevard which parallels it. The Better Bike Network builds on the successes of the existing infrastructure along the route by proposing improvements that will extend and upgrade them to be safe and comfortable for everyone today and after new developments, such as Library Place and the new Tompkins County office building, are in place.
