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For those who like to bike in Northside, you've got some new buffered bike lanes to ride.

Thank you to a few readers who brought this to our attention. We got out there and biked Brookland Parkway from Hermitage Road to Cannon Creek Greenway and to our offices in downtown Richmond. It was refreshing to have so much freedom and space in a buffered bike lane.

The readers who contacted us were confused by the white striped lane markers along Brookland Parkway. The project began on Tuesday, Oct. 28 and is not complete. Not all of the lines have been painted/put in place, which adds to the confusion for the new traffic pattern.

When it is complete the roadway will include an outside parking lane (unchanged), a 6-foot buffered bike lane, a 2-foot "shy zone" white buffer lane, and motorized vehicle travel lane.

The bike lanes run along 0.8 miles from the intersection at Hermitage Road/Boulevard to Brook Road. There will be another 1.2 miles of sharrows on Brookland Parkway through the Battery Park neighborhood to connect to Cannon Creek Greenway, which is currently a 1.2-mile paved bicycle and pedestrian path that connects to Shockoe Bottom and downtown Richmond.