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The original "bike in a house" or "man jumping barrels at home" marking was developed by James Mackay and included in the 1993 Denver Bicycle Master Plan. [3] While Mackay had considered a "connect the dots" pavement markings approach for bicycle route definition and cyclist lane positioning reinforcement (during his time as the Bicycle Facilities Engineer for the North Carolina Department of ...
bike lane “Bike lanes are established along streets in corridors where there is significant bicycle demand, and where there are distinct needs that can be served by them... Bike lanes are intended to delineate the right of way assigned to bicyclists and motorists and to provide for more predictable movements by each.” [ 1 ]
Bike lanes (US) or cycle lanes (UK) are types of bikeways (cycleways) with lanes on the roadway for cyclists only. In the United Kingdom, an on-road cycle-lane can be firmly restricted to cycles (marked with a solid white line, entry by motor vehicles is prohibited) or advisory (marked with a broken white line, entry by motor vehicles is ...
A bike lane with some form of buffer between motor traffic and the cycle lane. Buffered bike lane in Manhattan, New York: Lightly segregated: A bike lane with separating features such as wands or orcas. Light segregation on a cycle lane in Berlin: Contraflow: A bike lane which allows cyclists to go against the flow of a one-way street.
Also amphidrome and tidal node. A geographical location where there is little or no tide, i.e. where the tidal amplitude is zero or nearly zero because the height of sea level does not change appreciably over time (meaning there is no high tide or low tide), and around which a tidal crest circulates once per tidal period (approximately every 12 hours). Tidal amplitude increases, though not ...
See three-way junction 5-1-1 A transportation and traffic information telephone hotline in some regions of the United States and Canada that was initially designated for road weather information. A Access road See frontage road Advisory speed limit A speed recommendation by a governing body. All-way stop or four-way stop An intersection system where traffic approaching it from all directions ...
sharrows on a shared lane: Canada [14] The use of bikelanes is not obligatory for cyclists in any Provinces. [15] [16] shared lanes, car lanes with shared lane markings ("sharrows"). Czech Republic [17] vyhrazený (cyklistický) jízdní pruh or "reserved (cycle-) lane", limited by a continuous line, signed "cycletrack"
A shared-use path in Budapest, with a typical European shared use sign Cyclists are often permitted to use rail trails and bridleways, such as this rail trail in Germany.. A shared-use path, mixed-use path or multi-use pathway [1] is a path which is "designed to accommodate the movement of pedestrians and cyclists". [2]