Bicycle Friendly Communities Official Site
Application
BFC_feedback2012_OxfordMS.pdf View Download >v. 1 May 21, 2012 8:04 AMOverall BFC suggestions
- Expanding the bicycle and pedestrian manager's time focused on bike projects would help in scaling up your BFC efforts
- Pass laws or ordinances that protect cyclists
- BFU application February 5, 2013 for a September 2012 designation.
- Ensure that new and improved bicycle facilities conform to current best practices and guidelines ≠ such as the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities and your DOT's own guidelines.
Engineering
- Consider hosting a Smart Cycling course for city staff
- Consider a membership to the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals www.apbp.org for city Bicycle and Pedestrian Staff
- Consider measuring the bicycle level of service (LOS)
- Develop a system of bicycle boulevards
Education
- Ensure that bicycle-safety education is a routine part of public education
- Add bicycling and motorist education messages to local routine activities such as drivers licensing and testing, or include inserts in utility bills
- Start a bicyclist and motorist ticket diversion program (training instead of fine)
- Bus and Taxi drivers
- public maintenance classes
Encouragement
- Bicycle Friendly Business
- bike mentorship program that teams experienced cyclists with newcomers
Enforcement
- Invite a police officer to become an active member of the bicycle advisory committee
Evaluation
- Consider implementing a trip reduction program/ordinance
- Integrate the implementation of the bike plan into the master plan, all land use plans, zoning ordinances and larger development projects
| WFC Assessment Tool (PDF)
Here is our application from December 2011
Here are 8 pages of feedback from our most recent application (received April 2012)
Walkscore 23 Oxford is a Car-Dependent city
Almost all errands require a car.- Oxford Map
wfc57-58REFERENCES.pdf
wfcAssessmentTool.pdf
WFC feedback - Overall
Expanding your education and encouragement programs
Evaluate
- crash data,
- before/after evaluations of specific transportation projects,
- and using available evaluation tools. system-wide, corridor, or intersection evaluations. measurable performance objects that can be tracked over time.
## Engineering
- street crossings could be improved
- countdown signals,
- accessible pedestrian signals,
- leading pedestrian intervals, and
- timing for an appropriate walking speed.
Enforcement
- Adult school crossing guards
- crossing guard training program,
- crash rate in Oxford is certainly high?
- traffic safety officer to lead a strategic enforcement program
Specifics
Engineering
- sidewalk standards
- width standards difficult to understand. buffers?
- documents should contain graphics to clearly communicate expectations
- level and continuous at intersections
- Accessible Pedestrian Signals guide and the PEDSAFE guidelines
- Crosswalks - move from parallel lines to more effective crosswalk patterns.
- Parallel lines - least visible & require more maintenance
- Amenities around transit stops
- tighter curb radii
- 15 feet for residential streets and
- 25 feet for arterials
Evaluation
- new multimodal level of service models in 2010 Highway Capacity Manual has
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