Municipal engineers design the roads in your city. Those local engineers draw influence from two federal guides: AASHTO and MUTCD. To make a long story short, those two guides are behind the curve on bikeway designs, and that’s why cities like Portland and NYC have gone out of their way to implement “experimental” designs, the same type that have been accepted in Europe for decades.
That’s where this NACTO guide comes in handy. Your local politicians, city engineers, and citizens can peruse a comprehensive (yet succinct) menu of bikeways. See which options are approved or experimental. Study the research that backs up the designs.
It’s powerful, elegant, and it’s written in human language (not engineer-speak). City council members and internal champions have needed this forever, and now they have it.