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BICYCLE FACILITIES The National Bicycling and Walking Study also contains good information on types of spot street improvements that promote bicycle safety and use: • Wide lanes and paved shoulders in rural areas to provide adequate room for bicyclists and motorists; • Bicycle safe drainage grates, or drainage grates outside the lane sharing area; • Bicycle-sensitive detectors or push-buttons at signalized intersections; • Guardrail and sign post placement that does not interfere with bicycle travel; • Bicycle route signs at decision points and warning signs near unavoidable obstructions; • Roadway striping to aid bicyclists; • Reduction of protrusions at traffic islands; • Asphalt connector paths from existing streets to bicycle trails and facilities; • Improvements to remove surface problems, such as: filling potholes, providing anti-ski treatment on exposed metal surfaces, improving drainage to reduce surface ponding, making railroad grade crossings as smooth as possible, maintaining a smooth roadway surface, sweeping debris from shoulders and bike lanes. Additional land use practices that encourage the incorporation of pedestrian travel in transportation systems are: • Adequate provision for pedestrians and bicyclists in highway work zones; • Traffic calming techniques, such as narrowed streets to lower vehicle speeds and create safer pedestrian crossing, cul-de-sacs, and limiting motor vehicle speeds or movements; • Lighting of streets, walkways, and bicycle paths; • Siting of parking at the rear of a building to allow direct pedestrian access; • Permitting parking on heavily traveled streets, except at intersections, serves as a buffer zone between the roadway and sidewalk; • Siting of transit facilities adjacent to work, shopping, and recreational facilities to encourage pedestrian trips; • Areas with four to seven dwelling units per acre tends to be the minimum threshold for supporting local transit. Pedestrian facilities in these areas are essential to promote transit use and pedestrian trips; • Reducing the supply of parking and/or increasing parking costs to encourage other transportation modes, including walking and bicycling; W:\PLANNING\TRAILS\COMP96.DOC 58