Bike Highway / Greenway
COL-BHG-04 Bike Highway / Greenway
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Typical at: Undeveloped Rural Suburban Compact Urban
Core is an edge case, since a dedicated separated path competes for limited right-of-way with other demands at the highest density tier.
#Modal hierarchy
Modal hierarchy
#Design notes
Distinct from Local's Bicycle Boulevard, which shares the roadway with calmed vehicle traffic, this Typology is physically separated infrastructure, closer in function to a linear park path or a rail-trail than to a shared street. It is realistic across nearly the full density range, since a separated path is not dependent on the surrounding street grid the way a shared-roadway Typology is.1
#Related patterns
Bicycle Boulevard / Neighborhood Greenway (LOC-BBG-12) (explicitly distinguished on this page: shared calmed roadway vs. this pattern's physical separation), Multi-Use Trail / Greenway (COL-MUT-06) (a similarly-named Collector-scale pattern this one is specifically distinct from)
#Getting there: Retrofit path options
Protected bike lane retrofit via lane-width reallocation (RFT-CDR-07), via lane removal (RFT-CDR-08), via parking reduction (RFT-CDR-09)
#References
- Precedent-based CROW, Design Manual for Bicycle Traffic, English ed. (2016), Ch. 4.5 "Bicycle highways."(opens in new tab)