Leaders who support bicycling are critical to the work of advocates and to the lives of all people who ride bikes.
Please reach our to your local officials to share your successes, struggles, concerns and solutions for a more bicycle friendly Rochester.
Did you experience a dangerous situation or have a close call?
Report it and help keep everyone safe!
Contact the City of Rochester
For Emergency issues - stop sign or yield sign down, traffic signal outage/failure (goes to Rochester Public Works Infrastructure Maintenance)
507-328-2450 - Main
507-254-7704 - After Hours
507-254-7705 - Holiday/Weekend
For Infrastructure Issues like potholes (goes to Rochester Public Works)
For a sidewalk snow removal issue (goes to Rochester Public Works)
Phone: 507-328-2400
For another side walk issue - severe crack or edge mismatch issue (goes to Rochester Public Works)
Phone: 507-328-2422
For Non-Emergency Traffic Issues - reporting poor traffic behavior/traffic concern/improper parking (goes to Rochester Police) Please ALSO report this on the OurStreets app.
Public Safety Non-Emergency Phone: 507-328-6800
Call and describe the location/intersection and what you observe.
For dangerous behavior:
OurStreets is a smartphone app that can help make Rochester a safer city for all of us to navigate.
It is a one-stop shop to crowdsource dangerous driving behavior and other dangerous situations such as cars parked in bike lanes.
For example, if you are riding in a bike lane and you approach a vehicle blocking it, you can simply:
1) stop
2) snap a picture, and
3) upload the information to the app
All data collected within the Rochester City limits will be scrubbed of personal information and aggregated on a city map. This is not an app to make people look bad or report crime. It is a tool that will allow us to quantify where and when people who bike and walk are vulnerable. We Bike Rochester will use this information to advocate for geographically specific, data-driven solutions.
OurStreets is a smartphone app that can help make Rochester a safer city for all of us to navigate.
It is a one-stop shop to crowdsource dangerous driving behavior and other dangerous situations such as cars parked in bike lanes.
For example, if you are riding in a bike lane and you approach a vehicle blocking it, you can simply:
1) stop
2) snap a picture, and
3) upload the information to the app
If you would like to report an issue not listed above, such as a gap in the bike path network or areas where bike parking is needed, please contact us at we.bike.rochester@gmail.com. We actively collect this information to improve our infrastructure and continue making bicycling in Rochester safer for everyone.