JERSEY CITY — Get your helmets ready — a protected bike lane will soon be installed on Grand Street in Jersey City.

City officials unveiled their striping plan for the mile-long bike lane that will stretch from Pacific Avenue to Hudson Street at a meeting Wednesday night at the Frank R. Conwell school. Citywide bike lanes are part of Vision Zero, a plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities by 2026.

Senior Transportation Planner Barkha Patel said that Grand Street — known for speeding drivers — is one of the most dangerous streets for pedestrians and cyclists in Jersey City.

“We are using designs and interventions that are part of a national design guidance that have been proven … that these changes significantly reduce crashes on the street,” Patel said.

“In the recent few years, three pedestrians have been killed on Grand Street. A number of pedestrians and cyclists, I think close to 20, have been injured on this corridor.”

Andrew Vischio, the city’s director of traffic and transportation, said the construction should take four to five weeks. They plan to start installing the lanes in November. City spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said the cost of this section of bike lane is unknown "at this point, because we are still finalizing some striping and construction details.”

According to the city’s renderings, the protected lane goes in both in both directions on the south side of Grand Street from Pacific Avenue to Monmouth Street. At Monmouth Street, the protected bike lane breaks into two, flowing with traffic on Grand unti Grove Street.

At Grove Street, the eastbound bike lane ends. The lane becomes a one-way westbound lane that runs from Greene Street to Grove Street.

Nearly every intersection has a traffic signal along this corridor on this stretch, Patel said, noting that like drivers, cyclists are required by law to obey the traffic signals.

The city has installed 4.75 miles of protected bike lanes since June, and Mayor Steve Fulop hopes to reach 20 miles by the end of the year.

Vischio, at the unveiling of the Bergen Avenue bike lane last month, said the entire 20-mile system of protected bike lanes will carry a $1.5 million price tag or about $75,000 per mile.

Currently, the city has roughly 41 miles of street bike lanes, 36 of which are unprotected, City spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said.

The Bike Master Plan calls for 121 total miles of bikeways, 46 miles of which would be protected. The Bike Master Plan was passed by the City Council in June.

Mark Smith, who lives on Grand Street, hopes this will get some bike riders off the sidewalk.

“What I notice is that there is a lot of younger adult bike riders, who don’t feel safe riding on the street and are riding their bikes on the sidewalk,” said Smith, a cyclist. “There’s a guy who rides by my house every day going 15 miles per hour down the sidewalk on his bike … That’s a real hazard.”

Resident and Bike JC board member Ayla Suhermer says new bike lanes are long overdue. Long fearful of riding on the street, she said the difference is like night and day.

“It took me a long time to even test it out,” Suhermer said. “Over time I’ve built slightly more confidence to go out on my own, but it’s really scary, especially Grand Street. I avoid Grand Street if all possible.”

Ward E Councilman James Solomon said this is a necessary safety step for the Downtown portion of Grand Street.

“We are going to do it without spending a lot of money and we are going to analyze the impacts,” Solomon said. “We are going to make sure that any changes we need to make to accommodate all users.”