Cycling, traffic safety, traffic justice, and legal topics; energy, transit and transportion economics
Bicyclist advocates have been pointing out for years that the “Share the Road” message is problematical for bicyclists — that nobody really understands what it’s supposed to mean — the meaning is, at best, unclear and therefore readily mis-interpreted. Continue reading “What’s wrong with sharing? What’s wrong with courtesy?”
From wiki:
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is a document issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to specify the standards by which traffic signs, road surface markings, and signals are designed, installed, and used…
Here is the MUTCD home page, where full versions of the document are published.
Most of what is of particular interest to bicyclists is in Chapter 9. Walkinginfo.org has a webinar presentation that outlines the changes in the 2009 version of MUTCD.
H. Gene Hawkins, Jr., Ph.D., P.E. has an extensive history of the MUTCD.