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Examples of Quick-Build Bicycle Improvements

Bike Lanes (Class II or Class IV)

A green-painted bike lane is bordered by a white-striped buffer and plastic posts
Image: Metropolitan Transportation Commission
A bike lane with a bicycle stenciled in white paint is bordered by white-painted concrete curbs, plastic posts, and a brightly painted sidewalk
Image: City of Orlando, FL
A road with two lanes of car traffic and a lane of parking, with a bike lane between the sidewalk and the parked cards. A white striped buffer and some plastic posts are between the parking lane and the bike lane.
Image: Bike PGH

Protected Intersections

A large 4-way intersection with green-painted bike lanes along all streets, protected at the corners by green plastic posts
Image: CalBike

Intersection Daylighting

An urban intersection with yellow striped paint prohibiting parking on either side of the street near the corner
Image: Streetfilms

Traffic Volume Management or Filtering for Bike Boulevards

A person bikes between concrete planters with traffic signs in them on a tree-lined street
Image: BikePortland

Bike Parking

A city street between mostly brick, 3-story buildings has a row of metal inverted-U shaped bike racks in a converted parking spot, with low plastic humps and flexible posts between the bike parking and the street, and a bike lane between the bike parking and the sidewalk
Image: CRTP

Signage on Existing Posts

A sign with a stencil of a bike and the words "bike lane" is attached to a decorative post
A bike wayfinding sign from San Francisco is attached to a metal post
Image: San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

Some Available Materials

Paint

Bollards

Delineators

Concrete or water-filled plastic barriers

Planters

“Armadillos” and other low plastic barriers

Bike racks

Regulatory and way-finding signs

More in the Quick-Build Toolkit

The Quick-Build Process
A large 4-way intersection with green-painted bike lanes along all streets, protected at the corners by green plastic posts
Funding Quick-Build Projects
A black car on a residential tree-lined street drives over a plastic black-and-yellow speed table
Quick-Build Designs and Available Materials
A yellow ladder-style crosswalks crosses a wide intersection. Plastic posts surround the ends of the crosswalk and refuge islands in the middle
Pedestrian Improvements
Concrete planters next to the curb at an intersection are surrounded by white paint and plastic posts
Traffic Calming Improvements
A street with a bike lane, a parking lane, a landscaped buffer and a sidewalk. The parking lane includes white paint marks to delineate individual spaces.
Parking Management Improvements
A bike wayfinding sign from San Francisco is attached to a metal post
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