That's the name of a reference document issued by the Federal Highway Administration last month.
It's got a lot of local flavor since it was put together by Toole Design and their consultant team includes Heather Deutsch - formerly of DDOT - and Darren Flusche - formerly of LAB - among others. DDOT's Mike Goodno and Alexandria's Hillary Poole are thanked up front and several examples in the booklet come from the area.
It talks about the resurfacing planning process and when bike facilities should come into the mix (as soon as the list of streets to be resurfaced is completed, basically). It makes the case that integrating bikeway planning with resurfacing planning is best, and lists Oakland as an example. Some of the ideas for how to add bike facilities include road diets, parking removal, shoulder paving.
It's about 65% cheaper to add bike lanes with resurfacing than to just go in and repaint.
You don't have to go out to Oakland to find this. It's exactly what we do in Fairfax County. As soon as the summer repaving list comes out, the bike coordinator and FCDOT staff are on it, figure out how best to implement the Bike Master Plan via these repaving projects. It does mean that sometimes there are short sections, but eventually, they should all be covered (400 square miles makes a big list)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly but still riding | April 11, 2016 at 09:54 PM
7 of 12 of Alexandria's 2015/2016 repaving projects get some sort of complete streets/bike lanes or about 50% by mileage.
The roads not getting anything for bikes are larger, longer, harder ones such as Eisenhower (which has a trail), Duke St and Van Dorn St although the latter two have long term sidepaths planned.
Posted by: Zack Rules | April 12, 2016 at 03:28 PM
I was going to mention Fairfax as well. Though on at least one project (annandale road) it doesn't seem like they painted a bike lane but just painted an extra wide parking lane. But other places they've done have been pretty nice.
Posted by: drumz | April 13, 2016 at 09:38 AM