Chapter 4: Street Design a) Street Design b) Bike Lanes in NYC c) Working Bike Lane Systems d) Bike Lanes for New York City e) Elements of a NYC Bicycle Lane System f) Side Streets and Residential Areas — The Need for Traffic Calming g) Chapter 4 Recommendations Sidebar: The Lanes That Failed Figure 4a) Riding Infrastructure Figure 4b) Suggested Bike Lane Configurations

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Proposed avenue and cross-street configurations.
One-way avenue has bike lane, bus lane, and shared-use ped-bike lane. Bikes may use other lanes as well. Removed: two mixed-traffic lanes and one parking lane.

Median-divided two-way avenue; each direction has a lane for walking, cycling, buses and mixed traffic.
Cross streets employ traffic-calming features — traffic throttles, raised crossings, sidewalk widening, and chicanes.

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