Timeline
When Mayor LaToya Cantrell was first sworn in, she made transportation a priority for her administration and established the Mayor’s Office of Transportation. Since then, the Office of Transportation has supported efforts to make transportation more accessible and equitable in New Orleans, including the Moving New Orleans Bikes Plan.
Starting in April 2019, the Office of Transportation embarked on a city-wide bike planning effort to create a completely connected and safer system of bike lanes that allows people on bikes to get to where they’re going safer and easier. The City held public meetings to gain input on the existing network and to hear what residents’ needed and wanted from their bikeway network.
That Summer, City officials presented the collected input and introduced the draft bikeway network map in a series of public meetings across New Orleans. Building off of previous input and collecting more feedback on the draft bikeway network map, the City then launched into a rapid design and build-out of the bikeway network.