Thank you for submission. Please know that it has been received and is being reviewed.

Engineering will send a message to our Police Department to be aware of this enforcement issue and try and better educate bike riders to either walk bikes on the sidewalk or ride on the street. We do not believe "No Bikes" signage is the most effective way to handle this issue however. From our experience, these signs are generally ignored and instead create an eye-sore along our beautiful downtown corridor. There are new 4-way stops which will be installed this summer at the W. Venice Ave. intersection with Nassau and Nokomis. This will help to slow traffic further and will make the street more accommodating for bike riding. We will also be installing additional "sharrow" markings to encourage biking on the street. These measures should help further discourage riding on the sidewalk. Thank you for bringing this important issue to our attention.

Venice Police notified of the concerns 12.29.17 in order to monitor and increase enforcement of this issue.

Thank you for your rapid response to this issue.
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