The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) and Governor Christie have maintained, since it was first announced, that the 12.5 mile Route 35 rebuild project in Ocean County would follow NJDOT’s award–winning Complete Streets policy. Unfortunately, when asked how cyclists would be accommodated into the project, NJDOT has been elusive. While NJDOT recently launched a website dedicated to the project that provides maps and plans and proposed improvements, advocates remain concerned about the lack of Complete Streets designs in the project.
That’s because, according to the site, there are no plans to include dedicated bike lanes anywhere long the 12.5 mile corridor, and some areas currently without sidewalks will remain that way.
Using the new web application Streetmix, Tri-State decided to have a little fun and re-imagine a few of NJDOT’s Route 35 cross-sections into a truly “complete” street.
Now it’s your turn. We invite you to try other ways to redesign Route 35 incorporating Complete Streets on these and other cross-sections put forth by NJDOT. Let us know what you come up with, and remember to only use the existing right-of-way (don’t make streets any wider than they are currently). Share your designs via Twitter @Tri_State or on Tri-State’s Facebook page .
I’ve thought about this b/c I’m in Bay Head almost every weekend. Here is why the 9.0-12.5 section design that you present may not work: on-street parking. The road through bay head is usually parked 60-75% on weekends. Very prominent sharrows would probably be the best option as there isn’t room to accommodate a lane with on street parking as the travel lane is relatively tight as it is.
I love your proposals Janna but you got the bike lane on the wrong side in the second diagram. Yes I know its currently VERY fashionable to put the bike lane on the left side of one-way streets but the proponents for that design have yet to provide a shred of empirical evidence that such a layout is actually safer. My years of cycling experience including riding in left side bike lanes have left me convinced that they create more confusion and make drivers feel more comfortable passing cyclists at much less than three feet than lanes that are on the conventional ride side.
Sorry for the nit pick but I just don’t want you to give NJDOT too many ideas! :)
Correction: “conventional RIGHT side!”
Can’t let this one go, Andy ;-)
For our reading audience: left side bike lanes on one way streets provide at least two advantages: 1)as the driver is sitting in the left side of the car, they can more easily judge distance between their vehicle and a cyclist traveling on the left side, and 2) cyclists are safer in left side bike lanes because there are fewer parked vehicle passenger doors being opened into their path than if the bike lanes were on the right side, where driver side doors are being opened into their path.
Your turn, big guy ;-)
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my name is Ana isabel, I’m an architect and a researcher at grupo Indisciplinar, from Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
I’m writing my masters dissertation on open source urbanism and digital tools for civic participation and collaborative design and space production. One of the tools I approach on my work is StreetMix.
I can see you used the platform for the simulations displayed here, and also that you made a call for the readers to send their own proposals. It would be great to learn more about the experience with the software, to know if you have data concerning the replies you got with readers’ proposals and to know whether you had further experiences with the tool in different contexts. Any information you could have concerning this proccess would be very useful for my research.
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Ana
isabelanastasia@gmail.com
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