FARGO-Fargo city engineers have come up with two possible options for bike lanes on a major stretch of downtown.

The bike lanes are proposed on NP Avenue from 10th Street to the Red River, an old stretch of road that needs to undergo reconstruction soon, city engineer Jeremy Gordon said at a presentation to city leaders Tuesday, May 10.

In the first option, bike lanes are at street level. In the second option, they are at sidewalk level.

City Engineer April Walker said the direction her department received was that the city wanted NP Avenue "to be the bicycle connection."

City Commissioner Dave Piepkorn said it was smart to designate one road downtown as bicycle friendly.

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Some at the city remain skeptical, though. Julie Bommelman, who heads the city's bus system, said she had concerns about the safety of bicyclists given the amount of bus traffic on NP Avenue, where the Ground Transportation Center is located.

Another skeptic was City Commissioner Tony Gehrig, who wanted data to show that people would use the proposed bike lanes.

"We don't have good data on bikes," Gordon said. "You see a lot of people and groups on the bike share bikes," he said, referring to the bike share program that started in Fargo in March 2015.