Advisory Bicycle Lanes are an easy concept to grasp. But some details are challenging given the facility's novel approach of allowing two-way vehicular traffic to share a travel lane. High-level design guidance is provided by the FHWA Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks guide and in Alta's white paper on Lessons Learned from North American Advisory Bicycle Lane installations.
This design guide goes beyond these two sources and includes research findings from other countries which have far more experience with this road format than exists in North America. It can be downloaded below.
This design guide goes beyond these two sources and includes research findings from other countries which have far more experience with this road format than exists in North America. It can be downloaded below.
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Photos courtesy of Scott Robinson at City of Bloomington, IN and Justin Swan at City of Ottawa, ON.