Welcome to the Bywater Neighborhood Association’s safety resource center. This page is designed to serve as a comprehensive information clearinghouse for our neighborhood, providing a centralized hub for updates, alerts, and preventative resources. The page will contain data on local safety initiatives—ranging from crime prevention and traffic safety to disaster preparedness. In addition to consolidating official reports and municipal data, we aim to act as a vital bridge between the neighborhood and the leadership ,agencies and organizations working to that end. We will use this page collect resident feedback and concerns through this platform and forward the aggregate comments to the leadership responsible for these safety initiatives.
New Orleans bikeway blueprint plan
In the Bywater portion of plan:
- St. Claude has a bike lane which has been implemented but its lack of physical Barries and lack of parking enforcement has made it unsafe leading to multiple cycling fatalities
- Royal and Dauphine are listed as bike boulevards which are meant to beat streets that have features to make it more favorable to biking vs. driving. Unfortunately this hasn't been implemented
- Chartres is a shared lane, but it draws high speed traffic because of less train obstruction, good visibility and no stop signs or lights. There are also numerous trucks that stop and frequent illegal passing which makes this street although the best paved relatively unsafe for cyclists
- Crescent park is a shared path that is wide and has negligible vehicle traffic(only city vehicles and landscaping trucks moving <5mph), but it's upriver terminus is blocked by a construction fence at the wharf for the foreseeable future until the Audubon institute , and the elevator at the bridge is nonfuctional. Meaning the path is one way unless you can carry your bike up and down the equivalent of four flights of stairs to continue your trip in to the French Quarter
Complete Streets Coalition's Safer St. Claude Plan
In 2016, members from STAC reconstituted as a new group, the New Orleans Complete Streets Coalition, to support implementation of an updated Complete Streets Policy for New Orleans.
See the Coalition's data on St. Claude cycling needs and safety
Sign the petition from complete streets to make St. Claude safer
St. Claude Revitalization Meeting
BYMBO started an initiative to improve safety and revitalize the St. Claude corridor. Although this process involves more than just improving bike and pedestrian safety, a vast majority of the local businesses in the St. Claude corridor prioritized making the street safer and more appealing as the first step in in the Revitalization process. The first meeting Occurred on January 20th 2026
A first step from the meeting was to reach out to neighbors from each neighborhood association to develop a consensus on what changes to St. Claude would be most appealing e.g. continuing the street car line down St. Claude vs. using the neutral ground for parking vs. protected bike lanes on the neutral ground or along the sidewalks which may require shifting the traffic lanes into the neutral ground. DPW and DOTD said for the planning phase nothing was off the table.
Select Bywater from the dashboard to see our neighborhood's major crime statistics
To contact the NOPD Fifth District by phone, dial (504) 658-6050 or email at nopd5thdistrict@nola.gov.
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