Before Madison had two lanes in each direction on East Wash reduced to 10 feet (the other lane next to the bike lane is 11 feet) they did a study at the request of FHWA on existing East Wash at the time. Some older lanes closer to the Square were as narrow as 9 1/2 feet, but all the newer lanes were 11 feet and some were 12 feet, The study showed that the narrower lanes had fewer crashes - including sideswipes. FWHA approved the 10 foot lanes for East Wash as a result. Unfortunately FHWA has regressed somewhat since then on newer projects.
On 28 Jul 2015 at 18:26, tim wong wrote: Date sent: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:26:16 -0500 From: tim wong <[email protected]> To: BikiesSubmissions <[email protected]> Subject: [Bikies] 10-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Safer http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2015/07/10-foot-traffic-lanes-are-saferand-still-move-plenty- of-cars/399761/?utm_source=nl__link3_072815 -- "If we continue to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us--on you and me--and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monsters were these people?'" --Daniel Quinn _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
