http://bicycledriving.org Cycling skills, good roads, public awareness. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:01:00 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://bicycledriving.org/bikeways/sidepaths/comment-page-1#comment-2648 Richard C Moeur Fri, 22 May 2009 21:56:31 +0000 http://bicycledriving.org/bikeways/sidepaths#comment-2648 Signal phasing may not mitigate the conflicts at sidepath intersections, as the signal phase given to bicyclists on the path may be so short (to avoid excessive delay for road users) as to create severe delay for path users (or more likely, path users will ignore the signal, as observed in Montreal). Special devices such as rapid-flash beacons triggered by passive detection could be effective in changing conflict behavior, but are as yet untested, are expensive, and would need to be installed at every crossing street and driveway. Signal phasing may not mitigate the conflicts at sidepath intersections, as the signal phase given to bicyclists on the path may be so short (to avoid excessive delay for road users) as to create severe delay for path users (or more likely, path users will ignore the signal, as observed in Montreal). Special devices such as rapid-flash beacons triggered by passive detection could be effective in changing conflict behavior, but are as yet untested, are expensive, and would need to be installed at every crossing street and driveway.

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