Bicycle markings are being completed along Soborna in Mykolaiv

Today, October 24, along the pedestrian street of Soborna, Mykolaiv public utility workers are refurbishing a bicycle path.

The work on the application of bicycle markings is carried out by the employees of the municipal specialized installation and operation enterprise of Mykolaiv, reports the correspondent of «NikVesti».

As you know, the first part of the bicycle path along Soborna Street, from Velyka Morska Street to Admiralska Street, was laid in the fall of 2021. Currently, public utility workers are adding bicycle markings on the stretch from Velyka Morska Street to Shipbuilders' Square, as well as updating the markings that have already been applied.

We will remind you that in 2021, the city hall considered several projects related to the arrangement of bicycle paths in Mykolaiv. This year, on November 7, they finished putting bicycle markings along Soborna. However, already in December, the paint started to wash off. Later, the Mykolaiv City Hall admitted that the paint on the bicycle path in the center was applied with violations and promised to correct the situation.

Also in September 2021, the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the City Council concluded a contract with the Kyiv-based company «Istok-A» for the construction of the first full-fledged bicycle path in Mykolaiv for 4.6 million hryvnias. Earlier, the Department also announced that 67 poplars and acacias must be cut down for the construction of a bicycle path along Kurortna Street. Instead, they promised to plant 70 new trees. The project was not implemented due to the beginning of a full-scale war with the Russian Federation.

Recently bicycle traffic of Mykolaiv criticized the project of the DHCS to arrange a bicycle lane from Narodnyy Sad Park to Peremogy Park.

Mykolaiv cyclists are dissatisfied with the quality of the asphalt, sections of which are allocated for lanes. They also complained there that the officials ignored the agreements with the bicycle traffic on the arrangement of the lanes.

Earlier it was also reported that the Danish urban planner Mikael Colville-Andersen and his team are developing a concept of bicycle infrastructure for Mykolaiv.