Title: A Systematic Approach to Bicycle Parking Planning for Cities
Track: Connect
Format: 60 minute panel
Abstract: Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC have taken a strategic approach to bicycle parking. This session will focus on their planning tools and lessons learned from both the public and private sector.
Presenters:
Presenter: Megan Kanagy Downtown DC Business Improvement District
Co-Presenter: Daniel Clark Dero Bike Rack Company
Co-Presenter: Jeffrey Rosenblum City of Cambridge, MA
Schedule:
Wednesday 9/10 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM in Breakout Rooms, 316
4. Level of Service
•Bottleneck theory of cars: how to maximize throughput
–Long signal cycle lengths
–More through lanes
–Left turn pockets
–High-speed turning radius, right turn pockets
–Pedestrian push-buttons to increase car time
4
9. What can you do?
•Tools
–Coordinate signals (slow but steady)
–Restrict turns (needs network analysis)
•Planning
–Put the numbers in context: what is “peak”?
–Do not unnecessarily plan for traffic growth
–Combat car LOS with multimodal LOS; I recommend going with simple measures.
–Use other measures (queue, network impact)
•Policy
–Stand behind “complete streets” policies
9
61. • AM PM
•Do nothing C C
•Bicycle lanes F D
Technical traffic analysis
62. Boston Globe, Feb 10, 2009
“BU bridge plans could spur road rage; Some fear closing lane will choke traffic”
63. Boston Globe, Feb 10, 2009
"There's going to be road rage," predicted Stanley Spiegel, who lives across the bridge in Brookline. "If you're going to spend public money to go for an improvement, you don't predictably make things worse. That's nuts."
80. Although the remaining six approaches along the project do not meet the quantitative criteria, XXX does feel that qualitative safety criteria are satisfied at all approaches and that increased conflict between vehicles, pedestrians and bicyclists would result with the elimination of left turn lanes along this project.
81.
82. •“…because defendants’ current bid specifications, engineering plans, and related materials violate Chapter 89 of the Massachusetts Acts of 1996 as codified in Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 90E §2A (Massachusetts bicycle and pedestrian access accommodation law, hereafter “§2A”). Such injunction should remain in effect unless and until defendants’ re-design, re-engineer, or otherwise alter their proposed construction documents so as to incorporate “ALL (emphasis added) reasonable provisions for the accommodation of bicycle and pedestrian uses in… [the MassAve reconstruction project]”, as required by (and quoting from) §2A.”
