Stop lights can... RUIN a street for bicyclists?
Crossing the street on your bike should be easy and safe. Stop lights to help you, also invite cars onto your bike route. Engineers in Tucson, Arizona solve this dilemma with two special signals just for bicycles (Toucans and BikeHAWKs). Learn more about how HAWK beacons are fantastic: • Can this "HAWK" STOP LIGHT make walking fe... Buy me tacos 😀🌮► / roadguyrob Ask a road question ► https://www.roadguyrob.com/interchange ------------------------- Sources cited: ------------------------- Crash statistics, City of Tucson. https://www.roadguyrob.com/wp-content... "BikeHAWK: Adapting the pedestrian hybrid beacon to aid bicyclists crossing busy streets," Ped-Bike-Info (Federal Highway Administration, University of North Carolina). https://www.pedbikeinfo.org/examples/... "University Course on Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation," Federal Highway Administration. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications... "Bicycle Boulevard Signs and Pavement Markings," National Association of City Transportation Officials. https://nacto.org/publication/urban-b... ------------------------- Time sections: ------------------------- Bike Boulevards (0:00) Stop Light Dilemma (1:30) Tunnel Trouble (2:46) Toucan Crossing (4:00) BikeHAWK Beacons (5:38) Split Crossing Time (7:57)

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