Columbus advances Fourth Street and Fifth Avenue bikeway and roadway-safety project

The City of Columbus has documented installation work on the west side of N. Fourth Street as its N. 4th Street and E. 5th Avenue Bikeway and Roadway Safety Improvements project moves into implementation.

The city updated the project page on July 21, 2026. The update identifies the west-side installation as preparation for the work; it does not establish that the overall project is complete.

Work covers bikeway and roadway safety

The project combines bikeway improvements and roadway-safety improvements on N. Fourth Street and E. Fifth Avenue. Columbus is presenting project information through Engage Columbus, the city’s public-engagement and infrastructure process.

The update is the latest confirmed public indication that the project has progressed beyond planning to installation activity. It identifies where that activity was documented: the west side of N. Fourth Street.

The project’s stated focus is bicycle and roadway safety on the two Columbus streets. That focus describes the purpose and scope of the work, rather than a measured result. The available city material does not include post-implementation information showing whether crashes have declined or whether other safety outcomes have changed.

What is and is not confirmed

The city’s available project-page material confirms that bikeway and roadway-safety work is planned for both N. Fourth Street and E. Fifth Avenue, and that installation work has been documented along the west side of N. Fourth Street.

It does not provide a full construction schedule, a project cost or a completion date. The available material also does not identify the exact safety treatments to be installed, the final lane configuration or expected traffic effects.

Those missing details mean the July 21 update should not be read as confirmation of a finished construction phase, a particular roadway design or a timetable for the remaining work. It also does not support conclusions about how the project will affect drivers, cyclists or nearby travel patterns.

Next steps

No subsequent milestone or completion deadline is specified in the available project information. For now, the documented west-side installation on N. Fourth Street remains the latest confirmed step in the city’s implementation of the project.

Residents and other street users can follow the city’s N. 4th Street and E. 5th Avenue project page for future updates. Any additional details about construction timing, design treatments or traffic conditions would need to be provided in a later city update or project document.