In 2003, Vassar Street in Cambridge, MA underwent a full reconstruction as part of a large scale building project undertaken by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As part of the development, the city redesigned a one mile stretch of Vassar Street from Main St. to Audrey St. with east and westbound raised cycle tracks…
In 2004, the San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic conducted a study on the effects of different types of shared lane markings on cyclist and motorist behavior. Using before and after videotape data, the city investigated the impact of three different markings- bike-in-house, bike & chevron, and bike & separate arrow- to evaluate how each…
Second Street in the Belmont Shore area of Long Beach, California is a busy corridor which runs parallel to the beach. Many cyclists use the route as a connection between the beach, Orange County, and Ocean Boulevard. The street has significant motorized and pedestrian traffic, and bicyclists often choose to bicycle on the sidewalk rather…
The 200 South Street bike lanes in Salt Lake City extend a distance of approximately 3.9 miles from the University of Utah, through downtown, to the Jordan River Trail. The bike lanes are continuous except for a one block section downtown between Main St. and State St. A parking garage entrance/exit ramp on this block makes the…
In 1996, the City of Davis installed bicycle signal heads at the intersection of Russell Boulevard and Sycamore Lane as part of a demonstration project submitted to the California Traffic Control Devices Committee (CTCDC) to study the impact of the bicycle signals on bicycle and pedestrian safety and traffic behavior at the intersection. The intersection,…
The Wyman Park Bike Box, at the intersection of Wyman Park Drive, Sission Street, and Keswick Drive in Baltimore, was installed to improve safety for bicyclists. Originally installed as a pocket lane with the Collegetown Bike Network from the Jones Falls Trail, the pocket lane created mid-intersection conflicts between cyclists and motorists. By providing the bike…
At the intersection of the Going Street Bicycle Boulevard and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) constructed a median refuge island to shorten the crossing distance for bicyclists. MLK Boulevard is a 58’ four-lane arterial road and former state highway with a peak hour PM vpd of 2400. It is…
The High Intensity Activated Crosswalk (HAWK) beacon for bicyclist and pedestrian traffic was pioneered in Tucson, AZ and has been successfully installed at over ninety intersections throughout the city since 2004. Field studies conducted throughout the city have demonstrated improvements in safety and motorist behavior at intersections with HAWK signals and recently led MUTCD to incorporate…
The Third Street Bicycle Boulevard in Tucson, AZ runs east of the University of Arizona and sees 3,000-plus cyclists and 500 motor vehicles per day. Where it intersects with Country Club Road, a busy four-lane arterial with a traffic volume of 30,000-plus vehicles per day, the Tucson Department of Transportation installed the city’s first TOUCAN…
15th Street, running between Pennsylvania Ave. and V St., was selected as a suitable location to pioneer and experiment with the capital’s first protected bike facility on account of its extra roadway capacity and central location. In 2010, the city installed a one-way, southbound, protected contra-flow cycle track. After observing cyclists using the protected facility in…