Following a "Mayors Challenge" for bike safety by Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Transportation recently released a "Road Diets" report, providing a geographical diverse collection of case studies.
Josh Feit reports on the contents of a report by the U.S. Department of Transportation that presents case studies of road diets from around the country. Feit focuses on the three Seattle road diets (Feit prefers the term road safety design because "the process actually redesigns roads to carry more people not less thanks to typical changes such as adding bike lanes, sidewalks, bus hubs, and pedestrian islands"), which all received high marks from the U.S. DOT.
"Taking a close look at the Dexter 'right size,' the Nickerson safety redesign, and the Stone Way upgrade, U.S. DOT cheered SDOT’s success at using smart traffic math—going from four car lanes to two, adding buffered bike lanes and floating bus stops, and adding crosswalks, curb bulb outs, and pedestrian islands—to make roads more efficient and multimodal," writes Feit.
As for the remainder of the case studies in the "Road Diet" report [pdf], 24 are presented in total in the following locations as diverse as Genesee County in Michigan to Reston in Virginia to Santa Monica in California. More resources from the federal government regarding road safety design includes the Federal Highway Administration's Road Diets website.
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