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Richmond Councilwoman Kim Gray is asking the city to delay moving forward with a plan for a pair of bike lanes that would intersect downtown Richmond from the Lee Bridge to Jackson Ward.

The project, which would put the lanes on First and Second streets, is one of several bike infrastructure plans in the city recently awarded $2.26 million in federal transportation funding.

The City Council was scheduled to vote to accept the money at its meeting Monday, but Gray said they agreed to a one-month delay after a meeting with city traffic engineers Friday.

“Nobody in the community was aware of the changes that were being proposed,” Gray said. “So we’re going to slow it down and try to have a conversation with the community and see where we end up.”

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney’s press secretary, Jim Nolan, confirmed Stoney’s administration had agreed to the delay.

At a City Council committee meeting last week, the city’s bicycle and pedestrian coordinator, Jakob Helmboldt, said the project came out of the city’s bike master plan process, which was completed in 2015.