Abstract:
It is observed that communities invest significant time, dollars, and public trust in
creating bicycle master plans and complete street policies without any systems in place to ensure
that plans are implemented and policies are turned into practices. This paper explores bicycle
infrastructure implementation methods through a review of relevant documents and a study of
implementation systems in Chicago, Illinois; Seattle, Washington; Louisville, Kentucky; and
Bloomington, Indiana. This analysis of best practices results in a recommended approach to bike
plan implementation in Muncie, Indiana, as well as a structured methodology for the creation of
the Muncie Bike Implementation Plan 2017 – 2021—a bicycle infrastructure implementation
plan created by the author in concert with this paper.
