MapAsheville ActiveMapper is compiled by City of Asheville staff from city data and adopted plans. It is intended to provide helpful information to support active transportation choices like walking, biking, or taking the bus. It includes information on the city’s existing and planned pedestrian and bicycle network and includes transit routes. For more specific information about transit schedules, routes and taking the bus, please go to www.ashevilletransit.com.

More information about the specific plans or about making active transportation choices is available on the city’s website (www.ashevillenc.gov), through the City of Asheville Transportation
Department, (828) 259-5943, or by emailing iwalk@ashevillenc.gov for information about walking, ibike@ashevillenc.gov for information about bicycling, and iride@ashevillenc.gov for information about transit.

The data layers are:

• Existing pedestrian network: data includes greenways, sidewalks, marked crosswalks, pedestrian bridges, and facility walkways (privately maintained sidewalks inside places like apartment complexes or school campuses). These are marked with solid lines.
• Planned pedestrian network: data includes sidewalks that are identified in the city’s pedestrian plan. If a sidewalk is called a “needed linkage” it is among the 108 miles of the network’s most necessary missing links identified in the city’s most recent pedestrian plan. Needed linkages were identified as higher priorities based on access to destinations like schools, bus stops, city parks and recreation centers, zoning district and additional safety concerns. In most cases, if a property on a needed linkage is developed, sidewalks will be included in the development. A location “mentioned in ped plan” is one that did not necessarily rise to the level of needed linkage, but is noted in the plan document. Missing sidewalks that are not identified as needed linkages are still important, just not among the most important based on the plan criteria. Planned facilities are marked with dashed lines.
• Existing bicycle network: data includes existing marked or signed on-street bicycle facilities. Existing facilities are marked with solid lines.
• Planned bicycle network: data is taken from the city’s adopted bicycle transportation plan. Planned facilities are marked with dashed lines.

Bicycle Facility types:

• Bike lanes: Marked bicycle lanes parallel to the motor vehicle travel lanes.
• Climbing lane: Marked bicycle lane in the uphill direction, usually paired with sharrows in the downhill direction.
• Shared Roadways: Shared roadways are streets and roads where bicyclists can be served by sharing the travel lanes with motor vehicles. Usually, these are streets with low traffic volumes and/or low speeds, which do not need special bicycle accommodations in order to be bicycle-friendly.
• “Sharrow” or Shared Lane Marking: This symbol with chevrons and a bicyclist are meant to alert automobile drivers to the presence of bicyclists and encourage bicyclists to ride outside of the “door zone” of parked cars. Shared lane markings are usually used where there is not room for bicycle lanes or for motor vehicles and bicycles to travel side-by-side in the lane.
• Striped shoulder: A paved shoulder, normally at least 4 feet wide, that is separated from the regular travel lane by a line.


• Transit Network: This data is only where the routes go, for more information about individual routes, schedules and service, go to www.ashevilletransit.com.

Both the City of Asheville Pedestrian and Bicycle master plans can be found here http://www.ashevillenc.gov/Departments/Transportation/TrafficEngineering/BicyclePedestrianServices.aspx