YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – More routes are now available for bicycle riders in Yuma County. This is all thanks to the Master Bike Plan recently approved by the Board of Supervisors.

The Yuma County Bikeway Master Plan was first adopted by the Yuma County Board of Supervisors in early 2022. Since then, the plan has expanded.

One of the latest projects completed is a bike lane along Yuma Palms, and a potential project listed in the plan is a bike route through Dome Valley.

“Recently, the cities of Yuma, Somerton, and San Luis also updated their bike routes throughout their areas,” said Yuma County Senior Planner Javier Barraza.

A member of a local bicycle club and member of the Yuma Area Bicycle Coalition shares why an evolving bicycle plan is important.

“We are trying to survive by avoiding traffic jams. [and] “We put a lot of lights on our bikes, so we want people to see us,” said JR Aguilar of the Los Psycholists Bike Club, adding that while the club He added that being part of the company is about more than just being safe on the road. All this fellowship, brotherhood, sisterhood, it feels like it means something to me. ”

Aguilar’s Bicycle Club also adopted much of the levee road from the Collective to Joe Henry Park.

Another woman who bikes frequently is part of the Yuma Area Bicycle Coalition and is well known in the community and hopes to see more bike paths connecting the county to the city in the future. I will tell you that there is.

“If we can work together and connect these lines, we can all do it safely….We follow the law just like you, and if you share the road And if they give us an extra fee to go off the main road, we’d love to be there, even though we don’t believe in it,” said Theresa Straub, a member of Gorditas BMX.

Bike paths and lanes are funded by federal, state, provincial, local, and private funds, including the 50-cent City of Yuma sales tax.