Thoughts on when/why to install both a stop sign and a signal for shared use path users at road crossings? A cursory search of #MUTCD didn't turn anything up. #BikeSky #RoadSafety

Can someone ELI5 why we require traffic warrants before we install signals which keep pedestrians (and in most cases, drivers, too) safe?

#MUTCD

🧐 Everytime I pass this sign, I think there needs to be a more appropriate message. What could it say instead?

(This is a construction zone for a creek bridge & the shoulder bike lane ahead is in the work area. Construction expected to last through the summer.)

#BikeTooter #MUTCD
#WeAreTraffic

Just sent a note to NYC DOT Commissioner. DOT-646556-R7W This HHP / Route 9A Northbound Exit 12 exit ramp is two lanes wide. Why does a road posted at 50mph require an exit ramp that is two lanes wide? One can only make the turn onto the exit ramp from one lane so we have a case of parts of one lane expanding to two lanes. Seems very wasteful.

#RoadWaste
#ExitRamp
Neglected to ask if this ramp is #MUTCD compliant. Will find out myself. If unsatisfactory answer this becomes FOIA request.

Prettier streets are safer streets, and the MUTCD update makes them easier. https://wapo.st/3HEm1Q5 (WaPo gift link) by Janette Sadik-Khan and Kate D. Levin.

#transportation #RoadSafety #MUTCD #Art #PublicArt #AsphaltArtInitiative #AsphaltArt #infrastructure #VisionZero #TowardZeroDeaths #pedestrian #crosswalks

I'm very disappointed that the new #MUTCD is only available as a PDF: https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/kno_11th_Edition.htm

Sure, the PDF might be compatible with a screen reader, but you know what it's not compatible with:

- hyperlinking to specific sections
- narrow screens, such as phones

#accessibility #a11y

I know this is just the boring-sounding "I Hate Fun" kind of answer, but I can't see how highway signage that often displays important safety messages is an appropriate platform for jokes.

Would love to hear some different opinions on this.

#MUTCD #NHTSA

https://apnews.com/article/ban-humorous-messages-electronic-highway-signs-3c7b0d11475d2b255f7edd197af771cc

People don't seem to understand that the point of a traffic control device such as an electronic message board is to convey a message (sometimes a very important one!) as unambiguously and clearly as possible. The funny signs, while humorous, do not fall into that category. Driving is a very serious and dangerous activity, no matter how much we try to convince ourselves it's safe and normal, and these message signs can cause distraction and ambiguity.

#MUTCD #NHTSA

Mainstream media outlets covering boring things like revisions to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways? Yes please. This is a matter of literal life and death, and went ignored for way too long.
#NPR #MUTCD #JoelRose
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/31/1222174861/road-street-design-traffic-mutcd

@rjsheperd You may be on to something here... Alternately, maybe the lack of bike-specific #signeage & #CyclingWayfinding for us who #bike makes us better thinkers hehehe #MUTCD

New #MUTCD mostly fixes problems I found in definition of "intersection." But it opens new cans of worms by defining "site roadway" to include any road on a university site, with "site" undefined. What, eg, are the boundaries of the site of Harvard?
Any road maintained by a public agency (including a public university?) is also a "public road." Junctions of site roadways & public roads w/o signals or stop signs are not intersections, so pedestrians don't have right of way to cross.

Ooh a new Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices dropped: https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/

#MUTCD

Via StreetsblogUSA, here are some early reactions to the new edition of the #MUTCD , the federal manual that standardizes designs for signs and traffic signals on America's notoriously deadly roadways:
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/12/19/feds-advocates-talk-about-whats-in-the-new-mutcd-and-what-isnt
#VisionZero

#MUTCD BMUFL DNF. Good riddance "Share the Road". Hello "Bicycles Allowed Use of Full Lane" (BAUFL) (new sign) #BikeTooter

The 11th version of the MUTCD is live!

https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/kno_11th_Edition.htm

#roadgeek #mutcd

Santa did not bring me my #MUTCD present (a much clearer Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon sign, like the kind they have in faraway lands like Fremont) 😭