Time to dust off that bicycle sitting in the garage.

A year after two San Pedro thoroughfares were narrowed to make way for new bike lanes — a move that drew widespread criticism — city officials are prepping Pacific Avenue for a similar makeover.

Resurfacing is now underway on the southern portion of Pacific, with striping for bike lanes to be put in from 16th to 22nd streets later this year and the rest of Pacific to the north slated to follow suit in 2015-16 — but only after several community meetings, officials said.

It’s all part of the 2010 L.A. Bike Plan that, over the course of 30 years, will create some 1,600 miles of bikeways to connect the sprawling, car-centric metropolis in hopes of persuading more Angelenos to travel green.

When it’s done in 2016, the 1.1-mile stretch of Pacific Avenue (from O’Farrell Street on the north to 22nd on the south) will be reconfigured from two lanes in each direction to one, with a center turn lane and bike lanes.

Although car lanes will be lost, adding left-hand-turn lanes are seen as a way to help move traffic along the street.

But the bike lanes have brought mixed reviews.

While cyclists have said they make biking safer, the lanes drew loud complaints when they suddenly appeared last summer on Westmont and Capitol drives, narrowing the space for car lanes on the two east-west streets in San Pedro.

City officials told residents at a community meeting in June 2013 that motorists will need to practice more patience as the vast network of bike lanes are rolled out across the city.

Many motorists have simply found different routes around the streets, especially during the heavy traffic times coinciding with area school schedules, said David Rivera of the Northwest Neighborhood Council.

“Everybody’s adjusted,” Rivera said. “They’ve found their own ways to avoid traffic in the mornings and evenings.”

The Pacific Avenue project is geared toward improving pedestrian safety while promoting safe walking and biking, especially around elementary schools that dot the area, according to Los Angeles Department of Transportation documents.

Before more northern sections of the street are done, city traffic representatives will hold meetings with all of the neighborhood councils and other groups.

The entire project is slated to be finished in 2016 at a cost of$495,000.