Over a decade of focused planning, design, and coordination transformed bus service and improved pedestrian safety on San Francisco’s highest-ridership bus corridor. Running along Mission Street is the 14 Mission bus line, which, 10 years ago, riders identified as unreliable. Slow service was a major issue due to narrow lanes, congestion, and double-parking. Pedestrians also…
Making buses faster and more reliable is one of the most effective ways to transform urban mobility. From red carpet bus lanes and queue jumps to signal priority and optimized stop spacing, agencies are deploying a wide toolkit of street design interventions to get buses out of traffic. Yet, for years, tracking these projects across…
NACTO’s standard-setting guidance on designing city streets for transit has returned to NACTO.org. Photo Credits: CHICAGO, IL (Chicago Department of Transportation); SEATTLE, WA (SounderBruce, Flickr) High-quality transit allows a city to grow without slowing down. But accomplishing it requires that cities set priorities and make investments, both in transit service and in the streets where…