DEFINING SAFE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PEDESTRIANS & CYCLISTS AT INTERSECTIONS

WHAT INFRASTRUCTURE IS SUFFICIENT TO MAXIMIZE SAFETY FOR CYCLISTS & PEDESTRIANS?

how was the rating system determined?

It's time to update the Pedestrian and Cyclist Interaction Safety rating system!

Forward Progress and the City of Ft. Collins, CO facilitated a "Rating System Recreated" session at the 2023 NACTO Conference with curbspace management practitioners from across the country. This marks the first time the 2004 rating system for safe pedestrian and cyclist intersection infrastructure has been reconsidered.

To learn more about the session and the updated rating system, continue reading bellow.

pedestrian rating: poor

•Inadequate Signal Timing: Ped. Crossing

• Unwarranted “Hot Right” Lanes

• Sight Distance Problems

•Excessive Speed, Channelized, Vehicle Priority Turn Lanes

•Not ADA compliant

•Poor sidewalk refuge

•Uncontrolled drainage

•Lack of Street lighting

pedestrian rating:
sub-par

•Missing Pedestrian Signals

•Missing pedestrian / bicycle signing & markings

•Excessive Speed: Wide Turning Radii

•Poor pavement conditions Trip Hazards

•Substandard Crosswalk refuge on Divided Streets

•Signal Timing: Long Cycle Lengths

•ADA Compliant

•Basic StreetLighting

pedestrian rating: adequate

•Complete Set of Pedestrian Signals

•Protected Pedestrian Refuge Islands on Divided Streets

•Hi-Vis Crosswalks

•Cobra Style / Downward Facing Streetlighting at All Crosswalks

•Minimal Corner turning radii to Maintain Safe Movements

•Treatments reflecting the modal priority of the street

•Pedestrian & bicycle Warning signage

pedestrian rating:good

“Adequate” Elements, Plus:

•Modal priority signal timing

•Bike detection & progression on Bicycle priority streets

•Transit vehicle detection on transit priority streets

•2023 NACTO Urban Bikeway Recommendations

•LPI

•Turn Restrictions

•Protected LPI with signal restrictions

•2016 NACTO Transit Street Design Recommendations for Present Transit Facilities

pedestrian rating: excellent!

“Good” Elements, Plus

Innovative Treatments, and Terras Vedas

The Rating System:

Modal Priority
&
Land Use Context

World Class:

•Examples of Best Practices

Good:

•Urban Mobility Hubs

•Town Center

•Transit and Bicycle Priority Streets

•School Zones

•College Campuses

•Community and Senior Centers

Adequate:

•Suburban Activity Centers

•Crossings of Suburban Arterials

•Rural Signaled Intersections

Sub-par:

•Suburban & Rural Local Streets Outside the Above Contexts

Poor:

•No Where!

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