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…
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…