Bike Durham, a cycling advocacy organization, has donated $60,000 to the city to support a project adding protection to existing bike lanes on Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway.
The city had previously approved a budget of $500,000 for the project, which it has amended to $560,000.
Protected bike lanes are safer than painted lanes because they add visual cues or physical barriers that communicate to drivers not to drive or park in the bike lane, Bike Durham said.
The protection can include flexible posts, like those seen on East Main Street and North Miami Boulevard, concrete curbs or other options.
Bike Durham said the project may extend to other streets in the future.
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