'So much safer' | Covington pedals solution to public safety with first dedicated bike lane

COVINGTON, Ky. — If you've made your way down one of Covington's main thoroughfares recently, you may have noticed a different road design.

There are now two vehicular lanes instead of three, each slightly narrower than they previously were. The changes make way for the new five-foot-wide bike lane that is now painted beside them.

It runs along a half-mile stretch of West Fourth Street, between Garrard and Johnson streets. It's the first dedicated lane for cyclists in Covington's history.

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"So much safer to get out on a bicycle in traffic when you've got your own lane. Man, just so much smoother and faster," Alan Pickett said.

Pickett is a bike enthusiast who served as executive director of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Covington for