At its Oct. 1 meeting, the Fernley City Council approved a contract for the design and
construction management of Phase 3 of the bike path along the south side of Farm District Road.
Phase 3 of the bike path will complete a 0.3-mile gap in the path where it ends at Jasmine Lane
and picks up again just west of Hendrix Drive, the entrance to the Legacy Trails subdivision. In
addition, Phase 3 will extend the path another 0.3 miles east of the current end of the bike trail,
just west of Country Ranch Road, to the intersection with Clearwater Parkway.
When Phase 3 is completed, there will be about 3.7 miles of continuous bike path along the south
side of Farm District Road from Villa Way, just south of the roundabout, to Clearwater Parkway.
The city’s Transportation Master Plan calls for the path to extend to the East Valley Elementary
School, about another two miles east of the Phase 3 extension, and eventually to extend to the
intersection with Highway 50A, about 3.9 miles east of the Phase 3 extension, according to a
staff report on the item.
The $360,740 contract with Lumos & Associates for design and construction management
anticipates construction of the Phase 3 improvements to begin by next fall.
Construction costs will be funded by the federal Transportation Alternative Program, which
supports bicycle, pedestrian and other non-motorized transportation projects to improve safety
and connectivity, according to City Engineer Maria Paz Fernandez.
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