ats-15 fixing suburban roads, from barrier to busy bikeway: opportunties to make key, comfortable...
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Goals• Shifting cycling and walking from just
something fun to do – to a great way to get around
• Increasing cycling and walking as a means of creating vibrant and healthy communities, regardless of age, gender, ability, ethnicity, or economic background.
• Offering solutions that serve a wider range of ages and abilities
Recreation Transportation
Context and expected user type
Shopping
Trail Corridor
Park and Rec Center
Employment Center
Trail Corridor
SchoolHousing
Shopping
Transit Center
Housing Housing
Employment Center
Housing
Airport
Context and expected user type
Industrial Industrial
Industrial
IndustrialFuture Industrial
Industrial
Intersection TreatmentsPedestrians
• No closed crosswalk legs
• Increase crosswalk clearance times for pedestrians
• Provide lead pedestrian interval
• Reducing crossing distances with curb extensions, medians, narrowing lanes
• Lighting
• Advanced stop bars
• Right turn islands (pork chops)
• Reduce curb radii or add truck aprons
• Raised crosswalks
Bicycles
• Detection – stencils/signs, supplemental cameras, loops
• Intersection clearance times for bikes
• Right turn bays
• Left turn queue boxes
• Bike signals and phasing
• Lane delineators – profiled striping
• Green conflict zones
• Avoid dual right turn lanes