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…
At the intersection of the Channing Way Bicycle Boulevard and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, in the late 1990s, the city of Berkeley installed one of the city’s first bicycle loop detectors, as well as a legend with a right-in/right-out diverter. Thru-movement on the bicycle boulevard was banned as part of the project and left-turns…
In 2002-03, the city of Berkeley undertook a comprehensive bicycle signage initiative to make way-finding easier on the city’s new and existing bikeways and bicycle boulevards. Since many of the boulevards followed residential streets with few distinguishable landmarks or checkpoints, the city wanted to better distinguish these thoroughfares and provide more adequate guidance for bicyclists.…
In 2009, as part of an experiment coordinated between the Austin Street Smarts Task Force and the University of Texas’ Center for Transportation Research Center in 2010, the city of Austin installed bike boxes at two intersections on multi-lane roadways to study their effect on bicyclist and motorist behaviors. Three conditions were studied using before…
In 2009, as part of an experiment coordinated between the Austin Street Smarts Task Force and the University of Texas’ Center for Transportation Research Center, the city of Austin installed shared lane markings on four multi-lane roadways to evaluate their impact on cyclist and motorist behaviors. Streets included in the study were all deemed too…
In August 2008, as part of a coordinated effort by the North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center and the Florida Department of Transportation to evaluate innovative bicycle and pedestrian improvements, a rectangular rapid flash beacon (RRFB) was installed at the intersection of the Pinellas Trail and 22nd Ave. in St. Petersburg, Florida. The beacon contains two…
The North Higgins Avenue Raised Cycle Track was completed in October 2010 as part of a coordinated effort by the Missoula Downtown Association and Business Improvement District to create protected bicycle facilities running through downtown Missoula. North Higgins Avenue, a retail corridor with two traffic lanes running north and south through Downtown Missoula, is bound…
The low-traffic, one-block corridor of W. Ardmore Ave. between N. Sheridan Road and N. Kenmore Ave. in Chicago serves as a strategic connection between the north end of the Chicago Lakefront Trail and bikes lanes to the west of the trail. In 2001, a contra-flow bike lane was installed to allow cyclists emerging from the popular…