NACTO, which released the influential Urban Bikeway Design Guide a few years ago, has now completed a Transit Street Design Guide. It's not out yet, but you can pre-order them.
Developed over the past year through the work of a new peer network of city and transit agency experts, and with the generous support of TransitCenterand the Summit Foundation, the Transit Street Design Guide empowers practitioners to design transit streets as linear public spaces. Sections highlight transit as the centerpiece of transformative street projects, integrating transit-walk-and-bike-friendly design elements like boarding islands with best-practice strategies - like multi-door boarding and transit-friendly signals - that can speed up an entire system.
That would make a nice K Street or Connecticut Avenue.
For more, the Green Lanes Blog has a sneak peak.
As long as peak capacity and 85%ile speed are used by DDOT as the most important variables in evaluating streets, NACTO standards have little chance of being used. One can always dream.
Posted by: eawrist | February 03, 2016 at 08:14 AM
Hard to see that street design becoming common in America. You've got a nice wide public boulevard and only 2 traffic lanes for cars?
Posted by: Jeffb | February 03, 2016 at 09:03 AM
I like the red paint for bus lanes. Apparently they aren't allowed by the FHWA for bike/bus lanes (and at the moment require an exception even for bus-only lanes), but they're a good idea. Drivers just drive in the bus/bike lanes around here like they know MPD won't do anything about it or something.
Posted by: DE | February 03, 2016 at 10:22 AM