Champlain Parkway: Stop! Re-Evaluate! Re-Imagine!
Burlington residents committed to supporting highest quality and safest walking, bicycling and car facilities for all who live in and visit Vermont's most popular urban destination.
Burlington residents committed to supporting highest quality and safest walking, bicycling and car facilities for all who live in and visit Vermont's most popular urban destination.
Like
the famous Church Street Marketplace with the highest level of safety
of any street and all of its intersections in Vermont, the principles
of safe busy streets do not stray from separate walk, bicycle, and
vehicle facilities, or shared space approaches to urban
transportation design.
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Church Street Marketplace Early in the Morning |
The
three principal ingredients for safe streets:
1.
Sidewalks--sidewalks bring the safest environment for walking,
cutting accident rates about 90% for the walking mode over streets
without sidewalks.
2.
Cycle track--protected bike lanes--along street sections afford
for bicyclists of all abilities and ages safe conditions. Cycle
track on busy streets is the newest and most popular street component
since the advent of the sidewalk.
3.
Modern roundabouts in single lane configuration also reduce
all-modes serious and fatal injuries by about 90%. The
roundabout is the "sidewalk" of the intersection, the
"intersection safety belt for all modes", and outshines a
traffic signals in all respects, such as, capacity to move
traffic, reduction of gasoline use and pollutants, and delay for
all users.
A
completely "safe street" with moderate to high levels of
traffic features sidewalks and cycle track along street sections
along with roundabouts at major intersections.
Champlain Parkway: Stop! Re-Evaluate! Re-Imagine!
The Roundabout
The roundabout in single lane format cuts pedestrian, car occupant and bike serious and fatal injuries by about 90%. With 3,500 roundabouts in U.S. and Canada, built since 1990, not one pedestrian fatality through June 2015 -- 25 years Burlington! Burlington has 75 signalized intersections and there have been two pedestrian fatalities in 18 years!
Roundabouts also calm speeds outward along each approach one to two blocks. Champlain Parkway: Stop! Re-Evaluate! Re-Imagine!
The Roundabout
The roundabout in single lane format cuts pedestrian, car occupant and bike serious and fatal injuries by about 90%. With 3,500 roundabouts in U.S. and Canada, built since 1990, not one pedestrian fatality through June 2015 -- 25 years Burlington! Burlington has 75 signalized intersections and there have been two pedestrian fatalities in 18 years!
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Montpelier's Keck Cirlce (Spring and Main Streets) 1st U.S. Roundabout East of Colorado, North of Maryland--1995 |
Cycle Track (protected bike lanes)

Cycle track demonstration fall 2015 on North Union Street
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