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Green Wave

Lane Removal on Williams Avenue?. Green Wave. Cameron Alexander Jacob Andrade Connor Lamb Dave Knutson Lauren Shumaker. 1973 - Portland Bicycle Plan Promote Cycling and Cycling Infrastructure 1996 - Bicycle Master Plan Planned 600 miles of Bikeways 2009 - Updated Master Plan

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Green Wave

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  1. Lane Removal on Williams Avenue? Green Wave Cameron Alexander Jacob Andrade Connor Lamb Dave Knutson Lauren Shumaker

  2. 1973- Portland Bicycle Plan • Promote Cycling and Cycling Infrastructure • 1996- Bicycle Master Plan • Planned 600 miles of Bikeways • 2009 - Updated Master Plan • Increase Bikeway miles • Make bicycling more accessible to noob riders

  3. Four Basic Attitudes Towards Bicycling in Portland

  4. Unseperated vs. Seperated Bike Lanes n. Williams, Portland 23rd Ave., New York City Vassar Street, Cambridge

  5. Williams Ave:The facts YOUneed to know One-way road Two lanes of traffic Parking on both sides of the street 4 foot wide bicycle lane on the right side of traffic Home to major bus routes Popular alternate route to I-5 during afternoon rush hour Fun Facts!

  6. Major Concerns with Current Conditions on Williams: High volumes of cyclist and narrow bike lanes create dangerous passing conditions Busy bike lane directly subjected to opening doors of parked vehicles Leap frog with busses Not a low-stress avenue

  7. Methodology • North bound one way street • Vehicles traveling away from downtown • Peak hour in PM • Multiple Users • Cars • Bikes • Busses

  8. What We Did. • We counted cars on Williams Ave. at major intersections. • The data was compared to the Synchro model data • The Synchro model was manipulated to represent more limiting circumstances • Research and brainstorming for practical changes to the road section at intersections • We picked the most viable and safety conscious option.

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  10. LOS Analysis Current LOS D A A A B B LOS D D F F E E LOS D B D E E D

  11. Left Side Bike Lane (Against Curb) 9th Ave. New York Williams Redesign Portland

  12. Left Side Bike Lane (Away from Curb) Somewhere, USA Williams Redesign, Portland

  13. Right Side Bike Lane (buffered from parking and traffic) Williams Ave., Portland (with bus stopped in the bike lane) Williams right-side redesign Bus Stop! Bus Stop Bus! Bus Waiting Zone

  14. What We Chose Left Side Bike Lane (Away from Curb) Why we chose this: Easier for cars to pull over and park. A larger buffered bike lane than current conditions. Model currently exists in Portland. Bus/Bike conflicts reduced

  15. Acknowledgments We Give thanks to the following people: Robert “the voice” Roisum Matthew Machado-PDOT Rob Burchfield-PDOT Rolando Melgoza Dr. Monsere Our Families The P Pyramid!

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