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Complete Streets and
MUTCD Bike Facility Updates
April 30, 2015
Margaret Kubilins, PE, ENV SP
Bill DeSantis, PE
Complete Streets
Key Components
Travel Behavior
Complete Street Ingredients
Policy
– Land Use
– Transportation
Guidelines and Standards
Implementation
Travel Behavior
Why Don’t Americans
Walk Anywhere?
Answer: They can’t
– There is no sidewalk outside
the front door, school is 5
miles away, and there’s a six-
lane highway between home
and the supermarket.
– Many experts on public health
say the way neighborhoods
are built is to blame for
Americans’ physical
inactivity… and the resulting
epidemic of obesity.
USA Today
The tremendous potential of all trips
National Household Travel Survey (2009)
Americans want choices
Future of Transportation National Survey (2010)
Complete Streets Elements
Road Diets — Reconfiguration
For existing streets, there is the opportunity to simply restripe
the lanes to a specific user like a bus or the entire road can be a
new configuration.
Rural roads with shared use trails
Paved shoulders on bridges
Main Streets
Neighborhood Greenways
Angled Head-Out Parking
Emerging Designs—Separated Bike Lanes
Experimental Designs—Advisory Bike Lanes
Modern Roundabouts
Mattapoisett Multi-Use Path
Mattapoisett, MA
Transportation Corridors—Rail with Trail
Blackstone River Bikeway
Retrofitting Existing Roadways with a Road Diet
Memorial Boulevard, Newport, RI
before
Cycle Traks
15th Street, Washington, DC
Separated Bike Lane
Arlington, VA
Separated Bike Lanes
9th Avenue, New York, NY
Higher Recognition of Bike/Ped Detour Needs
Providence, RI
Higher Recognition of Bike Parking Needs
Bike Corral, Virginia Beach, VA
Perception of Cycling in the US
Biggest reason most Americans don’t ride a bicycle:
Afraid to ride on a roadway with traffic
Feel safer on separate facilities
Build it and they will come!
It’s a “fear based” approach
What is “safe”? What are the “standards”?
Bike/Ped Fatalities increased
in 2012-2014
Boston – 9 bike fatalities
2012- June 2014
– 8 at intersections
– 6 with trucks
– 1 with bus
2011—Policy for Bike/Ped Accommodation
The USDOT policy is to incorporate safe and convenient
walking and bicycling facilities into transportation projects.
Every transportation agency, including DOT, has the
responsibility to improve conditions and opportunities for
walking and bicycling and to integrate walking and bicycling
into their transportation system.
The “Standards”
Official FHWA Guidance Memo—Flexible Design dated
August 20, 2013 expressing support for taking a flexible
approach to bicycle and pedestrian facility design.
AASHTO Bicycle Guide and Pedestrian Guide are the primary
national resources for planning, designing and operating
bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
MUTCD or State Supplement.
MUTCD IA-14 Green Colored Pavement
in Bike Lanes
FHWA has issued an interim approval for the use of green
color “…within a bicycle lane or extension of a bicycle lane to
enhance the conspicuity of the bicycle lane or extension.”
FHWA IA-14 April 15, 2011.
NACTO notes “Motorists are expected to yield right-of-way to
bicyclists at these locations.” Not true!
Big difference between “enhancing conspicuity” and
assigning right-of-way.
IA-15 Alt Design for US Bike Route
Sign M1-9
2009 version Proposed improved
IA-16 Bicycle Signal Faces
Additions to MUTCD Bikes in Work Zones
Part 6 Typical Applications
for Guidance and Support to
provide bikeway continuity
through or around a
Temporary Traffic Control
(TTC) zone.
Additions to MUTCD
Additions to MUTCD
Additions to MUTCD Regulatory Signs
EXCEPT BICYCLES
Reg plaque R5-xxP
Used beneath regulatory
signs where it is desired to
exempt bicycles from the
condition depicted on
the sign.
For contraflow BL’s with
R5-1 DNE sign.
Additions to MUTCD Regulatory Signs
Additions to MUTCD Regulatory Signs
R3-5xp BIKE PLAQUE FOR
LANE SIGN
R3-8 ADVANCE
INTERSECTION LANE
CONTROL SIGN
Changes in 2016 Manual –
Intersection Signs
R10-15a R10-15b
Additions to MUTCD Regulatory Signs
Bike Warning Plaques
Used beneath warning signs
where it is desired to alert
bicyclists that the specific
condition depicted on the
warning sign is not
applicable to them.
Additions to MUTCD Regulatory Signs
Contraflow Bike Lanes
Additions to MUTCD Regulatory Signs
Bike Boxes
Additions to MUTCD Regulatory Signs
Buffered Bike Lane
The longitudinal marking on
the bike lane side of the
buffer shall be broken to
allow crossing.
Buffer >4’ width should have
cross hatch markings
(chevrons at travel lane,
diagonals at parking.
Additions to MUTCD Regulatory Signs
Revised M1-8 and M1-8a
Signs
Non-Numbered Bike Route Markers
M1-xa M1-xb
Pedestrian Road Safety Audit
Newport, RI
Cyclist Road Safety Audit
Bike/Ped Road Safety Audit
Resources
Complete Streets Coalition
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/complete-streets
Status of new bike designs
www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bicycle_pedestrian/guidance/
design_guidance/mutcd_bike.cfm
MUTCD information with links to state supplements and
interim approvals www.fhwa.mutcd.org
Bill DeSantis | [email protected] | 401.457.2024
Margaret Kubilins | [email protected] | 757.233.3217
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Offices located throughout the east coast