Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Has The Ideal Low-Cost Bike Lane Separator Finally Been Found?

For years, the City of Austin has been on a wonky but important quest for one of the holy grails of bike infrastructure: the perfect low-cost bike lane separator.
Every common bike lane protection option has drawbacks. Plastic posts collapse. Precast curbs are complicated to install. And lots of the other options aren't mountable by an ambulance or garbage truck.
Now, Austin thinks it might have found the grail. Or you might call it the Goldilocks of bike lane protection: not too flimsy, not too pricy.
It's a pre-cast concrete "button."
See pictures and read the rest of the story here.

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