Rahway will create more than three miles of designated bikeways under a pair of ordinances introduced by City Council.

The governing body introduced two ordinances at its Feb. 11 regular meeting. A public hearing and final approval of the legislation is scheduled for the March 11 regular meeting. The first ordinance (O-3-19) specifies the description of Class I and II bikeways and another (O-4-19), designates specific streets as bikeways.

The bicycle lanes would be designated per the ordinance, totaling about 3.682 miles in all judging by Google Maps calculations:

• Broad Street between West Lake Avenue and Campbell Street
• Bond Street between Washington and Monroe streets
• Central Avenue between Madison Avenue and Campbell Street
• Campbell Avenue between East Milton and Central avenues
• Elizabeth Avenue between Irving Street and Jackson Avenue
• Irving Street between East Milton and Elizabeth avenues
• Jackson Avenue between Elizabeth and Linden avenues
• Linden Avenue between Jackson and St. Georges avenues
• Madison Avenue between Bramhall Road and Old Lake Avenue
• Madison Avenue between Maple and Westfield avenues
• Maple Avenue and Old Lake and Madison avenues
• Monroe Street between Bond and Main streets
• Old Lake Avenue between Madison and Maple avenues
• West Lake Street between Broad Street and Dukes Road

The ordinance would add a section to the city code titled “Chapter 147: Bicycles, §147-11.1 Designated Bikeways.”

Streets segments with a travel lane of 15 feet or more — Class I — will include “a 5-foot-wide bicycle lane demarcated with solid white line lane striping, and yellow striping bifurcating opposing bicycle travel lanes, where necessary,” according to the ordinance. “Lanes will include standard bicycle symbols painted on the street and optional contrast coloring within the bike lanes indicating the space as a bicycle lane.” Class I lanes will be on “the right side of two-way streets and on the left side of one-way streets, between parking and travel lanes.”

Class II street segments, those with a travel lane of less than 15 feet, or with “traffic patterns that make Class I lanes impractical,” will be considered acceptable for installation of Class II route markings, consisting of standard bicycle symbols and “double chevrons, known as sharrows,” painted on the street to communicate that drivers shall share the road with cyclists, according to the ordinance. These routes also may include “Share the Road” posted signage.

When a bikeway is designated as Class II, the routes will have “offset markings to the right of the travel lane center so that cyclists are guided outside the door sweep area of parked cars.”