In Omaha, city officials have been meeting with Aksarben-Elmwood Park neighborhood residents upset about a number of serious collisions at 63rd and Shirley Streets, including a fatal crash in 2015.

The crashes generally have involved vehicles on Shirley Street going through a stop sign at 63rd Street, then being hit by cars going north or south on 63rd Street.

The city plans to install a roundabout this year with a raised center to slow traffic through the intersection.

The collisions have not included bicycles, said Todd Pfitzer, assistant Omaha Public Works director. But the bike lanes are part of the Aksarben discussion, and advocates for multi-modal transportation in Omaha have pressed for protected bike lanes in the city.

Pfitzer met with neighbors earlier this spring to discuss the situation.

The city had studied the area and collected a lot of data, including how fast people drive there. That included observations that cars on 63rd Street traveled faster north of Shirley, where there are bike lanes, than they did south of Shirley, where there are no bike lanes.

Pfitzer said that’s because on-street parking is not allowed where the bike lanes are, so the street’s wider there.