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Both Cambridge and Boston need more shared bus-and-bike lanes. Common in the UK, but rare in the US, they've proven suprisingly successful. As it turns out, bikes and buses mix well in part because buses don't make crazy lefts or U-turns and rarely even turn right.
Buses, even at 5 minute headways end up being pretty "rare" in the lane and have more predictable speeds (they physically can't do jackrabbit starts). So the bikes are like tick birds swarming around the elephants.
http://planfortransit.com/wp-content//Shared-Bicycle-and-Bus-Lanes.pdf
Personally, I think we also need more "rush only" lanes. In DC it is quite common for parking to be prohibited on the curb lane in the rush direction, but just for the peak, and act as parking the rest of the time (This is rare in Boston...or at least not used where it is needed.
Mass Ave in Cambridge should have this inbound in the AM from, say Rindge (the outer end of Porter Sq) to Waterhouse (the tunnel portal), and outbound in the Evenings from Harvard Law to the Arlington Line.
Most "Mom & Pop" storefront merchants who want parking "out front" should actually like the idea that at 10am, when their store opens, the curb will change back into parking
Buses, even at 5 minute headways end up being pretty "rare" in the lane and have more predictable speeds (they physically can't do jackrabbit starts). So the bikes are like tick birds swarming around the elephants.
http://planfortransit.com/wp-content//Shared-Bicycle-and-Bus-Lanes.pdf
Personally, I think we also need more "rush only" lanes. In DC it is quite common for parking to be prohibited on the curb lane in the rush direction, but just for the peak, and act as parking the rest of the time (This is rare in Boston...or at least not used where it is needed.
Mass Ave in Cambridge should have this inbound in the AM from, say Rindge (the outer end of Porter Sq) to Waterhouse (the tunnel portal), and outbound in the Evenings from Harvard Law to the Arlington Line.
Most "Mom & Pop" storefront merchants who want parking "out front" should actually like the idea that at 10am, when their store opens, the curb will change back into parking