Do you live, work or travel along 1st Avenue East between 27th Street and 40th Street? We want your input on the future development of this road. Help us identify corridor problem areas, neighborhood concerns and improvement options.
•Online Survey: Click here to complete the survey about this road
•Attend a Meeting: Attend the informational meeting and visioning session Thursday, July 28 ◦6:00-9:00 p.m. St. Matthew’s Church, Kern Hall, 2310 1st Avenue NE
This stretch of 1st Avenue East is a commercial center and main corridor between downtown and residential areas of Cedar Rapids. This important transportation corridor is nearing traffic capacity during some periods of the day, which has had an impact on traffic safety and access to local businesses. The 1st Avenue East corridor between 27th Street and 40th Street will be rebuilt as a “Complete Street Improvement,” which means a street design that provides for safe, comfortable and convenient travel for all users, including motorists, bicycles, pedestrians, and transit riders. The new design may include additional turning lanes, driveway consolidations, medians, sidewalk improvements, CEMAR trail crossing, utility upgrades, accessible transit, trees, and other landscaping enhancements. For more information, please contact the project team at [email protected]
Anything you do to improve that area for bicycles will be very helpful. I grew up in CR, on the SW side. I rode all over CR, but the area near Allis Chambers Tractor Co on 1st Ave., was as far I would go going East. Well I am now 71 and hope to return for my Jefferson HS 55th class reunion in 2014. Hopefully they will have it in a hotel near a Bike Trail, that I have been supporting. If I come, I will bring my bicycle. JK, San Pedro,CA.90731