Council approves bike path extension

At its Oct. 1 meeting, the Fernley City Council approved a $360,740 contract with Lumos & Associates for the design and construction management of Phase 3 of the bike path along the south side of Farm District Road. Phase 3 will fill a 0.3-mile gap between Jasmine Lane and Hendrix Drive and extend the path 0.3 miles east to Clearwater Parkway. Once completed, the bike path will offer approximately 3.7 miles of continuous trail from Villa Way to Clearwater Parkway. Construction, funded by the federal Transportation Alternative Program, is expected to begin by next fall. The city’s Transportation Master Plan calls for the path to eventually reach East Valley Elementary School and ultimately Highway 50A.

Kerry Lyman
10/16/2025 01:03 PM

Council approves bike path extension — The Fernley City Council approved a contract to design and construct the extension of the bike
path along the south side of Farm District Road. Photo by Kerry Lyman

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