The Jefferson County Trails Council has put up signs around town for a city-wide Bikeway/Walkway system. The original plan dates to a 2006 study by University of Iowa students designed to connect neighborhoods, schools, parks, recreational areas, and portions of the Jefferson County Trail system. The plan was approved by the City of Fairfield and implemented by the Trails Council.
Streets marked as Bikeway/Walkway are ordinary city streets, so pedestrians and bicyclists should obey normal traffic laws and safety precautions. However, the intent of the plan is to mark those streets for future improvements. Some portions of the planned routes, notably West Burlington Ave and South Main St, are waiting on the repaving of those streets, and so the signs indicate alternative routes in the meantime.
The 5 color-coded routes each have a distinctive icon.
The signs and five original icons were designed by Mark Shafer and his Fairfield High School art classes.
Click here to see more photos and an interactive map.
Click here to see the progress on the B Street sidewalk.
See the Executive Summary of the proposal as a HTML page. Includes black & white maps of the proposed bikeway/walkway routes.
See a full-color map of the proposed routes in a PDF file. (Requires Adobe Reader). You may print the map from the Adobe Reader program.
See some newspaper articles about the project in a PDF file. (Requires Adobe Reader).
See the entire Report, as presented to the Fairield City Council on May 8, 2006, in a PDF file (a rather large file).
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See some links provided by the students as a HTML page.
The Bikeway & Walkway Plan recommends a system of routes designed to connect neighborhoods, schools, parks, recreational areas, and portions of the Jefferson County Trail system. The plan identifies funding sources for future improvements, recommends route designs, and suggests signs and themes appropriate to civic, commercial, cultural, and recreational locations.
Fairfield Bikeway & Walkway Plan responds to the vision expressed in Objective 2B (4) 2012 Community-Wide Strategic Plan, Moving Fairfield Forward:
To design a plan that connects Fairfield's neighborhoods, schools, parks, and recreational facilities through bicycle routes, trails, and walking paths, and that ties into the Jefferson County Trails system.