Peak Oil Task Force Report - City of Bloomington - State of Indiana

5. Build in physical separation buffers along streets and roadways.
Road systems should be optimized for multi‐modal transportation options, including
bicycling and pedestrian uses. Natural and artificial buffers between transportation modes
Manhattan – A bike lane separated from the road by
way of a 6’ buffer of parked cars.
Report of the Bloomington Peak Oil Task Force
should be incorporated into road design
wherever feasible. Examples of such
buffers include parallel parking
provisions along roadsides that allow
vehicles to act as safety buffers between
pedestrian users of sidewalks and
automotive users of the roadway.
Automotive buffers, in the form of
parked vehicles, can be used to protect
bicycle lanes.
Bloomington designates bicycle lanes
with on‐road graphics but there are no
physical barriers for traffic separation. On some of the wider roads, such as College and
Walnut and Third Street east of Bryan, a narrow concrete walkway built out in the road and
against which automobiles park would provide a dedicated and protected set of bicycle
lanes between the walkway and the associated road shoulder or sidewalk.
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