As a long time bike courier and manager of a local company, access to bank street is one of the ways I stay safe in a job with a lot of inherent risk.

Bank street is one of the only safe and effective ways to travel throughout downtown and shockoe bottom. As a cyclist broad street is unsafe and ineffective to get to shockoe bottom. Going through cary street or to canal can be unsafe and also add far more time to deliver to customers. Bank street provides access through the Franklin street bike lanes as well as a safe and easy route to 10th street and the many businesses and apartments we routinely deliver to.

If bank street is restricted even further it will make myself and my employees jobs far less safe and far less efficient in the downtown and shockoe area where congestion, speeding and red light running is a continuous issue.

please not only maintain 24/7 access to bank street but please help remove some of the barriers to cyclists that currently exist.