Tag: mutcd
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Last chance to tell the Feds: Make our national road standards safer
There is a book that gives traffic engineers across the nation guidelines for how to design streets and highways, and the Federal Highway Administration is updating it right now. Unfortunately, the current draft of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (“MUTCD”) is backwards, limiting safety innovations while defending the same dangerous road designs that…
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Feds make it easier to install traffic signals for bikes
The Federal Highway Administration has removed a layer of red tape that should make it much easier and cheaper for states, counties and cities to install bicycle-specific traffic signals. The memo posted below goes into rather dense detail about the decision, but Seattle’s Traffic Engineer Dongho Chang simplified it to us this way: “It makes…
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Heavy work to start again on Dexter July 7
If the lure of wide buffered bike lanes for part of the street has gotten you back in the habit of riding on Dexter Ave, get ready to change your routine again. SDOT is going to start removing pavement for the second segment of the project July 7. As we reported in May, work on…
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