Page 21 of this TCRP synthesis on the interplay between BRT and people walking and bicycling gives you a flavor for #ArlingtonVA transportation planning. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27007/chapter/5#21
if i showed you this statement, followed by this cross-section, would you say this was a place that's planning for more bicycling?
@bikepedantic ... is that a 111' ROW with zero dedicated cycling space?
Because it certainly looks like that's what it is, but that feels like I must be reading it wrong.
@crschmidt @bikepedantic there are some *very* wide lanes there.
12'6" for buses (11 is fine, buses ate 8'6" wide), 11'6" for GP (11 probably fine, at least apart from the bus stop). 12' for a bus stop (could be 9'). So that's a bike lane right there, and you get another one by only having parking on one side. 18' sidewalks are wide, too, although a lot of bikes will probably wind up on them!
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@Ofsevit @crschmidt @bikepedantic Holland St in Somerville is I believe 10' lanes with the bus traffic. And the city only had worries for the bus traffic at that width last I recall.
@max_in_somer @Ofsevit @crschmidt all of these reason-based arguments died an ugly death in #ArlingtonVa, where they doggedly stick to old plans that ignore bicycling out of principle. And thus, no direct bikromobility connection from a heavy rail transit station, past Amazon HQ2, to a trail that someday is going to bridge over the Potomac
