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CDOT presents tactile directional indicators and shared boarding concepts to reduce bike–pedestrian conflicts at bus stops
Summary
CDOT’s Brad Topol presented design options to the CTA ADA advisory committee to separate bike lanes from pedestrian and bus‑loading spaces using raised bike lanes, vegetation, and tactile directional indicators (TDIs) that guide blind and low‑vision travelers to designated crossings.
Brad Topol of the Chicago Department of Transportation described updated street design standards intended to reduce conflicts between bicyclists and people walking or boarding buses. His presentation emphasized physical separation where space allows (raised bike lanes at street level, vegetated furniture zones, and bus‑boarding islands at sidewalk level) and tactile directional indicators (TDI) to provide positive wayfinding cues for blind and low‑vision…
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