What Is a Bicycle Boulevard?
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BICYCLE BOULEVARDS Quiet, low traffic streets that are great for people on bikes and local residents Milwaukee by Bike Proposed Miles: 52.15 Miles What is a bicycle boulevard? What do bicycle boulevards look like? Bicycle boulevards, also called shared roadways, are Various bicycle boulevard treatments are displayed in low-volume streets where motorists and bicyclists • share the same space. • the graphic below. reduce vehicle speeds so that motorists and bicyclists • Traffic calming and other treatments along the corridor more-comfortable environment for all users. Sharedgenerally roadways travel at incorporate the same speed, treatments creating to afacilitate safer and • traverse major streets. Choker entrance prohibits ARD motor vehicles from BOULEV safe and convenient crossings where bicyclists must entering the bicycle boulevard Traffic signal enables bicyclists to cross arterial street • They work best in well-connected street grids where Loop detector or video detection enables bicyclists to activate signal riders can follow reasonably direct and logical routes and when higher-order parallel streets exist to serve Arethru there vehicle benefits traffic. to people not on bicycles? • andResidents more attractiveliving on shared environment. roadways benefit from reduced vehicle speeds and thru traffic, creating a safer • boulevardsPedestrians meet can also major benefit streets. from boulevard treatments Mini traffic circles and speed humps by improving the crossing environment where serve as traffic calming devices Are there different types of bicycle boulevards? based on their level of physical intensity. • LevelTreatments 1 represents for shared the leastroadways intensive fall within treatments five levels and can be implemented at relatively low cost. • Stop signs on cross-streets favor through bicycle movement • Subsequent levels incorporate increasing levels of traffic calming. POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS • Levels of traffic calming are displayed below. Choker Entrances Traffic Diverters Chicanes Mini Traffic Circles Chicanes Mini Traffic Circles Bicycle boulevard signs and pavement markings serve as wayfinding devices Marked Crosswalks Medians/IslandsHalf Signals and reinforce that bicyclists Bicycle Left Tu rn Lanes Medians/IslandsHalf Signals Medians/IslandsHalf Signals Raised median prevents motorists are on a preferred route from cutting through Median allows bicyclist to cross arterial while preventing vehicles Sharrows Directional Markings Sharrows Directional Markings Sharrows Directional Markings Sharrows Directional Markings from turning onto the Bicycle Boulevard BOULEVARD Wayfinding Warning Wayfinding WarningWayfindingWarning WayfindingWarning Wayfinding Warning DOWNTOWN 1 mi. 6 min. DOWNTOWN DOWNTOWN DOWNTOWN DOWNTOWN 1 mi. 6 min. 1 mi. 6 min. 1 mi. 6 min. 1 mi. 6 min. EOU 0.5 mi. 31 min.mi. EOU EOU EOU EOU 1 mi. 1 mi. 0.5 mi. 31 min.mi. 0.5 mi. 3 min. 0.5 mi. 3 min. 0.5 mi. 31 min.mi. BIRNIE PARK 1.5 mi. 9 min. BIRNIE PARK BIRNIE PARK BIRNIE PARK BIRNIE PARK 1.5 mi. 9 min. 1.5 mi. 9 min. 1.5 mi. 9 min. 1.5 mi. 9 min. LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 LEVEL 4 LEVEL 5 Signage Route & Intersection Intersection Treatments Traffic Calming Traffic Diversion Pavement Markings Intensity of Treatments (varies based on roadway conditions and area characteristics) Signed Shared Bikeway Bicycle Boulevard.