On a ride into downtown this morning I came across a common sight: People on bikes waiting for a red light in a single-file line at an intersection that has a bike box. The bulk of the bike box — a ...
Bike boxes are a new roadway engineering treatment being used by the City of Portland Office of Transportation to improve bike safety at intersections. They are intended to improve awareness and ...
La Rue Road has only 1 lane now in each direction between Garrod Drive and Hutchison Drive Parallel parking added, bike lanes, too — with a buffer between bikes and car doors 3 green boxes to be ...
While bike boxes deter some types of crashes, they may lead to others. One of the biggest safety problems for bikes and cars sharing the road is right hooks—drivers turning right crashing into ...
A NEW STUDY from Portland State University (PSU) researchers shows that Portland’s experimental green bike boxes painted at busy intersections make both cyclists and drivers feel safer, but the jury ...
If you take your bike on holiday with you, a good-quality bike box or bag can make the difference between it arriving safely or in several pieces. In fact, one of our most important tips for planning ...
After two years, Portland’s green bike boxes are moving out of the experimental phase and into the city’s permanent toolbox of traffic-safety features. Last January, from a Portland State University ...
TAMPA, Fla. — If you’ve been driving around Hillsborough County, you've likely taken note of what appear to be large green crosswalks with the silhouette of a biker on them. Those vivid green “bike ...
Bike boxes were recently installed at the intersections of Broadway/11th and Ocean/California, joining existing installations on Ocean Park at Lincoln and Main. Bike boxes are traffic markings that ...