Streets For All
Riding a bicycle is a low-impact form of exercise that can be enjoyed by people of all ages, as well as a sustainable form of transportation. For children, biking provides a sense of independent mobility, pedestrian safety skills, and valuable exercise. For everyone, biking reduces traffic congestion, reduces automobile emissions, and provides various health benefits.
Reducing auto dependency and improving public health are overall goals for the City as identified in Plan El Paso - the adopted long-range vision that guides future growth and development. These benefits are therefore particularly relevant to El Paso where public health and active transportation are identified areas of improvement.
The City of El Paso is a Bronze Level Bicycle Friendly Community with the League of American Bicyclist and is dedicated to providing facilities for all modes of transportation. In 2016 The City adopted a Bike Plan with the purpose to guide city staff and elected officials in deciding what streets are best for bicycling, how to make those streets safer for cycling, and what other policies and programs can be made to support changes in the street. Streets are our largest form of public space, therefore it is essential they are accessible to everyone.
The City of El Paso adopted its first comprehensive bike plan a decade ago. Now, we need to hear from El Pasoans about what changes made in that time have had the biggest impact on making El Paso more friendly for cyclists of all ages and abilities.
The 2026 Update will focus on neighborhood-scale, implementable solutions aimed at making biking a more viable mode of transportation across the city. The City of El Paso’s Capital Improvement Department is partnering with Sun Metro on this update to ensure updates to the bike improvements align with changes to transit routes being considered as part of the “Sun Metro Rising” program.
How can I help shape the update?
Whether you’re a cyclist or not, your experiences can provide valuable context for the update. We’d love to see you at any of our community engagement events taking place this spring and summer.
Our first big event is Saturday, March 28, 2026, from 10am to noon at the Chamizal Recreation Center, 2119 Cypress Avenue. We’ll have other events over the next few months. If you can’t join us, you can still help by clicking below!
Take our short survey Map your favorite or least favorite places to ride
What is the El Paso Bike Plan?
The comprehensive bike plan guides the City of El Paso in creating bike lanes, bike programs, and other bike amenities in a thoughtful way that optimizes comfort and connections to existing transportation infrastructure.
El Paso’s Bike Plan determines which streets are best for cycling infrastructure and what that infrastructure looks like. The Bike Plan will recommend priority infrastructure investments and policy initiatives that can make cycling a more comfortable, viable, and appealing travel option for El Pasoans of all ages and abilities.
Why does the Bike Plan need to be updated?
The City of El Paso’s first comprehensive bike plan, adopted a decade ago, calls for the City to update the plan every ten years.
How will my feedback help?
The input gathered from this survey, the mapping tool, and at community events will be utilized to help shape the update to the plan, which will then guide prioritization and investment in bike infrastructure over the next decade.
As the City continues to develop bicycle lanes, further counts will be conducted to gather ridership data providing an accurate depiction of bicycle use throughout the city. The ridership information will be used, in part, to determine locations of new bicycle facilities. Bicycle facility use will increase as the City continues to expand a safe bicycle network through the implementation of an adopted bicycle plan.
Safety
It is important when biking to make yourself as visible as possible to vehicles for safety reasons. Please wear reflective clothing and consider adding reflective elements, mirrors, and other safety gear to your Bike. Remember to stay hydrated and protect yourself by having the right gear and equipment at all times.
Video - Interaction of Vehicles And Bikes Video - Interacción de Vehículos y Bicicletas
Video - Interaction of Vehicles and Pedestrians Video - Interacción de Vehículos y Peatones
The bike box is an intersection safety design to prevent bicycle / car collisions, especially those between drivers turning right and bicyclists going straight. It is a green box on the road with a white bicycle symbol inside it. It includes green bicycle lanes approaching the box.