Tag: bike boxes

August 1, 2013

SDOT on how to use two-stage left turn boxes

As part of the much-heralded Cherry Street protected bike lane project (you know, the one prompted by a now-famously polite crew of guerrilla bike advocates), the city also installed its first modern-style left turn box at the intersection of Cherry and 7th Ave. While not a dramatically new idea (the city has installed several bike…
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tagged: bike boxes, left turn boxes, sdot, videos
November 28, 2012

West Seattle adjusts to its first bike box + Price of install drops 30%

Andover-Delridge Bike Box 11-26-2012 from J&S Adventures on Vimeo. West Seattle got its first bike box this week, designed to help people safely make a left turn from Andover to Delridge Way just south of the West Seattle Bridge. With cars backed-up next to the bike lane, it is sometimes difficult to tell which vehicles…
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tagged: bike boxes, delridge, Delridge Way SW, sdot, SW Andover St, west seattle, west seattle blog
October 16, 2012

PDX Study: Downhill bike boxes may increase collisions

A multi-year study of bike-involved collisions at Portland intersections that have bike boxes has returned mixed results showing only minimal reductions in collisions at some intersections and increases at others. The results have prompted the city to rethink some of the design elements around bike boxes particularly when they are in the downhill direction. The…
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tagged: bike boxes, bike portland, pbot, portland
May 21, 2012

Poll: Majority of Washington residents support installing more bike boxes

A recent PEMCO Insurance poll found that while only a third of the Washington State respondents they contacted were familiar with bike boxes, a majority of respondents thought they were a good idea. About 52 percent of respondents in the state said they supported green bike boxes on city streets even after the pollster explained…
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tagged: bike boxes, pemco
December 5, 2011

It’s time to start designing safer intersections

With all of the progress the city has made in recent years making streets safer and easier for biking, there is a clear lack of changes at intersections. Sometimes the city is afraid of removing current dedicated right turn lanes for fear that traffic will back-up. Sometimes there are safety fears associated with putting people…
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tagged: a view from the cycle path, bike boxes, dutch, intersections, nacto, sdot
September 8, 2011

N 34th Street project demonstrates the bike box’s true potential

I have heard nothing but praise and excitement so far for the new N 34th Street bike box, which SDOT completed last month. Where other bike boxes in the city (such as the bike trapezoids on Madison) seemed to be more like experiments, the bike box on N 34th at Fremont Ave is the real…
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tagged: bike boxes, fremont, fremont ave, fremont bridge, N 34th St, sdot