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Is the NACTO Guide a Design Manual?
In cities around the USA, politicians, under pressure from populist bicycling advocates, have pointed to the NACTO (National Association of City Transportation Officials) Urban Street Design Guide and directed their engineering staff to install treatments which it describes. I’ll say … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Bike box
Tagged 2STQB, bicycle, Bicycling, bike box, bike lane, bikeway, collision, crash, crosswalk, cycle track, cycle tracks, guidance, law, MUTCD, NACTO, option, safety, sidepath, standard, traffic, traffic signal, Two-step turn queuing box, vehicle
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What color is your bike lane?
Should the pavement in a crosswalk, or special on-street bicycle facility, be painted a special color? Under what conditions? What color? European countries use color. Let’s look at a few examples and see what they might teach us. First let … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged AASHTO, APBP, Bik lane, Bikes Belong, color, conflict zone, Denmark, Germany, Madison, MUTCD, Oregon, Portland
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I approve of this?
UPDATE: This post gives background information on the intersection. I have now ridden through it, and my opinion of it has changed. I have another post about it, and a video. Please check them out. The image below shows a … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Bike box, contraflow
Tagged 16th St. NW, 16th Street, 16th Street NW, Andrew Ellicott, Benjamin Banneker, bicycle, Bicycling, bike box, bike lane, bikeway, crash, crosswalk, DC, District of Columbia, Federal Highway Administration, Fenty, FHWA, Gabe Klein, Klein, Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Mayor Fenty, MUTCD, New Hampshire Avenue, Pierre l'Enfant, research, safety, traffic signal, U St. NW, U Street, U Street NW, vehicle, vehicular, video, Washington
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Idaho special bicycle laws
Idaho law allows cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign. See https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title49/t49ch7/sect49-720/ It also allows a bicyclist to treat a traffic signal as a stop sign. I would support the traffic signal aspect of this law as … Continue reading