Category Archives: Bicycle facilities

Comparing crosswalk and bike box

Posted on February 21, 2009 by jsallen

Let’s just get it straight: bike boxes as commonly understood and implemented are a “buzzword” facility whose popularity is based on misconceptions, and which flies in the face of any common understanding of how to achieve traffic safety. Continue reading →

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Portland, Oregon HAWK Beacon

Posted on February 13, 2009 by jsallen

A HAWK beacon installation at 41st and East Burnside Avenue in Portland, Oregon, is unusual, as it applies to bicyclists, not only pedestrians This posting describes the Portlan HAWK beacon installation and makes recommendations for improvements. Continue reading →

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Hawthorne Bridge discussion gets thorny

Posted on November 9, 2008 by jsallen

Riding a bicycle on a sidewalk is rarely a better choice than riding in the street, but it is better on the Hawthorne bridge in Portland, Oregon, which has a narrow roadway with a treacherous steel-grid deck. I first rode … Continue reading →

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Bike box rationales

Posted on September 22, 2008 by jsallen

On another Web page, I have discussed the features and operational characteristics of so-called “bike boxes”, in which bicyclists wait for traffic signals ahead of the stop line for motor traffic. I recommend that page as background information for this … Continue reading →

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German town’s traffic plan: retrenchment, not radicalism

Posted on January 27, 2008 by jsallen

Parts of European cities have a modern streetscape, — Paris, due to Baron Haussmann‘s urban-renewal projects in the mid-19th century; many other cities, due to bombing in World War II and subsequent reconstruction. But ancient, narrow streets without sidewalks are … Continue reading →

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