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As road transportation professionals worldwide focus their attention on making streets safer for all, a key part of their work is ensuring the safety of vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians, cyclists and wheelchair users. In the final article of our three-part series on improving traffic safety for all, we examine some of the tools that transportation professionals can use to implement the Safe System and Complete Streets approaches. Read on to learn more.
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As road transportation professionals worldwide focus their attention on making streets safer for all, a key part of their work is ensuring the safety of vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians, cyclists and wheelchair users. In the final article of our three-part series on improving traffic safety for all, we examine some of the tools that transportation professionals can use to implement the Safe System and Complete Streets approaches. Read on to learn more.
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As road transportation professionals worldwide focus their attention on making streets safer for all, a key part of their work is ensuring the safety of vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians, cyclists and wheelchair users. In the final article of our three-part series on improving traffic safety for all, we examine some of the tools that transportation professionals can use to implement the Safe System and Complete Streets approaches. Read on to learn more.
Keeping Vulnerable Road Users in Mind with Safety-Driven Design:
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Yes… a little bit of science to back up the idea that our wide urban streets are part of the problem, while giving us a path to address safety issues. Let’s install protected bike lanes by narrowing the area cars use in these extra wide streets. This makes drivers focus and slow down, while giving those who want to ride a safe route. City leaders - if you want to improve your city’s quality of life, stop inviting cars to speed through your neighborhoods and commercial districts. Instead, invite them to slow down, save lives, and enjoy your city.
My latest article for Forbes is on a fascinating new study from US-based researchers. It suggests that at lower speeds in urban areas, narrow traffic lanes are safer (for everyone) than wide ones....and that by repurposing these excessively wide lanes, US cities could accommodate better and cheaper cycling and pedestrian infrastructure https://lnkd.in/gPvDPYgm
Want Safer City Streets? Make Traffic Lanes Narrower
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Thinner car lanes = safer roads. And thanks to the off-the-charts wide lanes (3.7 - 4.8 m or 12-16ft wide*!!!) in many US cities, this presents an opportunity to reconfigure that collosal volume of public space for more modes and more people - without even touching the traffic engineering holy grail of throughflow and average car speeds. Imagine protected bike lanes popping up at a fraction of the cost of reworking the verge... Adding significant capacity for peanuts cost. "For Hamidi and her colleagues, narrowing and repurposing travel lanes (where appropriate) would answer a large number of challenges facing US cities – improving road safety for all, accommodating sidewalks and bike lanes in a cost-effective way, and increasing roadway capacity by diversifying travel modes and fitting more users into the same space. Those European cities that have invested heavily in pedestrian and cycling infrastructure have already seen measurable benefits to environmental and human health. US cities could have the same, but only if the will is there to change things; to look beyond the dashboard and focus on those city-dwellers outside of cars." * for comparison european highway lanes are ~2.5 - 3.5m, or 8 1/4 - 11 1/2 ft wide... city lanes are thinner again)
My latest article for Forbes is on a fascinating new study from US-based researchers. It suggests that at lower speeds in urban areas, narrow traffic lanes are safer (for everyone) than wide ones....and that by repurposing these excessively wide lanes, US cities could accommodate better and cheaper cycling and pedestrian infrastructure https://lnkd.in/gPvDPYgm
Want Safer City Streets? Make Traffic Lanes Narrower
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My latest article for Forbes is on a fascinating new study from US-based researchers. It suggests that at lower speeds in urban areas, narrow traffic lanes are safer (for everyone) than wide ones....and that by repurposing these excessively wide lanes, US cities could accommodate better and cheaper cycling and pedestrian infrastructure https://lnkd.in/gPvDPYgm
Want Safer City Streets? Make Traffic Lanes Narrower
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Great article about repurposing roads for cycling and lane width. Thanks for sharing!
My latest article for Forbes is on a fascinating new study from US-based researchers. It suggests that at lower speeds in urban areas, narrow traffic lanes are safer (for everyone) than wide ones....and that by repurposing these excessively wide lanes, US cities could accommodate better and cheaper cycling and pedestrian infrastructure https://lnkd.in/gPvDPYgm
Want Safer City Streets? Make Traffic Lanes Narrower
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This article asks engineers and planners to reverse conventional roadway design practices on lane widths by designing for 9 to 10 foot lanes and then justifying the design need to further widen to 11 and 12 feet. I like how it challenges where we start w design by putting pedestrians and bicyclists first. Based on safety studies of lane widths and traffic speeds on various street types, narrower lanes on slower streets has fewer crashes w pedestrians or bicyclists.
My latest article for Forbes is on a fascinating new study from US-based researchers. It suggests that at lower speeds in urban areas, narrow traffic lanes are safer (for everyone) than wide ones....and that by repurposing these excessively wide lanes, US cities could accommodate better and cheaper cycling and pedestrian infrastructure https://lnkd.in/gPvDPYgm
Want Safer City Streets? Make Traffic Lanes Narrower
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Per NPR and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a new study found traffic engineers should make roads narrower to reduce car crashes and traffic fatalities. Full report can be read here: https://lnkd.in/gfNpj8wf For neighborhoods where speeding is rampant or biking could be encouraged, traffic engineers should have to justify the wide lane widths that are prescribed today. An alternative use of extra lane space is to create more parking and utilize parked cars as a buffer for bikers and bike lanes (see image). Lower speed limits, narrower lanes, and conscientious traffic engineering can create safer neighborhoods for all. #housing #health #trafficengineering #parking #bikelanes #biking #neighborhoods #cars #walkability
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