Covington has joined Newport in rethinking its bicycle infrastructure by approving a bike transit plan from Tri-State Trails.
The Covington Commission approved the plan at the legislative meeting on Tuesday. Discussions of the plan date back to January of 2023, and Tri-State Trails, the Cincinnati-based transit nonprofit that furnished the plan, presented it to the commission about a year later in January 2024. The plan surveyed the existing bike infrastructure in the city and offered ideas to make changes. The study was funded by the Devou Good Foundation, a nonprofit that also focuses heavily on transit reform.
The plan pertains to both Covington and Newport; Newport approved their end of the plan earlier this month.
The plan is not binding. Instead, it serves as a set of recommendations around infrastructure planning, policy changes and operational changes to create a more bike-friendly city overall. These include making a dedicated line item for bike infrastructure in the city budget, expanding the public bike share program, creating dedicated detours for cyclists to circumvent construction projects and road closures as well as generally expanding education and advocacy for cycling, among other measures.
Read the full plan, including maps and specific infrastructure recommendations, below.