City of Regina | Crosstown Bike Route

Regina City Council adopted the Transportation Master Plan in 2017. This plan lays out a vision for Regina’s transportation system over the next 25 years. Included in this document are plans for a city-wide cycling network for Regina. In 2018, the City of Regina undertook an internal prioritization study, based on this city-wide network, to determine which routes were most important to build first. A route that connected central neighbourhoods to the downtown was identified as the highest priority piece of infrastructure.

Construction began on this project in 2021-2022 with starting in Western Cathedral, connecting the Devonian pathway on 13th Avenue from Forget Street to Elphinstone Street at 14th Avenue.

In 2023 construction of the Crosstown Bike Route continued with the addition of a multi-use pathway built adjacent to College Avenue between Lorne Street and Broad Street. The City of Reigina is working to extend this pathway eastwards in 2025-2026.

As bike lanes are added to the pathway system, they are updated in our maps found here:

Pathways Page

Big changes are also coming to the transportation network of central Regina, with the Saskatchewan Drive Corridor Plan, planning work related to the Central Loop Trail, and new traffic calming measures on 13th Avenue all impacting how people move about. With these big changes on the horizon, the City of Regina is looking at re-evaluating the routing and type of infrastructure we are building for the Crosstown.

Watch this space for more information and announcements on future expansions to the Crosstown Bike Route.

Advisory Bike Lanes

Video Transcript

Audio	Visual
upbeat music	Text displays “City of Regina Advisory Bike Lanes. Here’s how Advisory Bike Lanes work for cyclists.”
bike bell chimes ding	An animated image of a bicycle moves quickly across the screen.
Narrator: Popular in Europe and in the US,	Illustrated maps of the Untitled States of America and European Union appear briefly and slide off screen.
this system is great for adding cycling lanes to streets (image of street with a cycling lane where they wouldn't otherwise fit.	An animated image of a single-lane street with a bike lane to the right-hand side appears.
Narrow roads with low volume traffic and low speeds. Here's how they work.	Image of street speed sign with low maximum km/h pops up over the graphic of the road and disappears.
Traffic from both sides share one central lane.	Illustrated image of single-lane street appears as though you are looking down on it from above.
Cycling lanes are placed on each side of the road.	Images of cycling lanes appear on both sides of the single-lane road.
When there are two drivers traveling in opposite directions,	Two vehicles appear on the road, travelling in opposite directions towards one another in the center lane.
the vehicles move into the cycling lanes to pass each other safely.	The vehicles shift to the side so that they are in the cycling lanes.
What happens if there's a bike in the cycling lane?	The image quickly disappears and reappears with a cyclist riding in the right-hand cycling lane.
Whoever is in front has the right of way.	The image rotates to give a side profile of a person on a bicycle with a car following behind them and a red arrow pointing to the cyclist indicating they are in front and have the right-of-way.
Vehicles travel behind the bike	Image reverts back to a cyclist riding in the right-hand cycling lane, with a car following close behind.
but can then move back into the center lane	A car travelling in the opposite direction comes down the center lane and passes the cyclist and car in the right-hand bike lane.
when it is safe to do so.	Once the car in the center lane has passed, the car following the cyclist moves into the center lane to pass the cyclist. The image fades out.
It is a whole new way for drivers and cyclists to share the road	An animated image of tire, comprised half of a car tire and half of a bike tire appears with a green checkmark beside it. Image fades to a blue screen.
upbeat music	Text appears displaying “Regina.ca/cycling” and “Thank you to the City of Ottawa for the use of this video”.
chimes ding	City of Regina logo appears.