A couple of points on the new bike box on Dayton at Park Bike Boxes are still an experimental treatment and we have applied for and received experimental status for this bike box. The Feds are only approving green for experiments with colored pavement in bicycle facilities. Red is being reserved for other potential uses. Anyone who has been in New York or Boston and maybe other major cities in the past few years has probably seen some red bus lanes.
There are two signs being used at bike boxes. The one that matters is the Stop Here On Red sign that is positioned at the advance stop bar for motorists. This is what is enforceable. The educational sign Get Behind It . . . is just educational. Hopefully drivers sitting at the stop bar will see and understand what the bike box is all about. The sign we are using is a copy of the sign Portland used when they first started using bike boxes. Arthur Arthur Ross, Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator City of Madison Traffic Engineering Division 215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Suite 100 PO Box 2986 Madison, WI 53701-2986 608/266-6225
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