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Local Transit

LOC-LTR-10
Recommended Local

Local Transit

A Local street carrying a fixed transit route, most often a local bus line, where transit priority is layered onto the base pedestrian and bicycle priority rather than replacing it.

Typical at: Suburban Compact Urban Core

Undeveloped and Rural are unlikely pairings, since Local Transit assumes a rider base a low-density area typically cannot support.

#Speed and modal hierarchy

Design speed & speed limit

SPEEDLIMIT20
Follows the Local default: 20 mph hard maximum, no exceptions. Transit priority in the modal hierarchy below does not change the vehicle speed cap.

See Design Speed & Speed Limits.

Modal hierarchy

Transit Pedestrian Bicycle Vehicle Freight
This is an override of the Local base order, justified by the Typology's stated purpose: a designated transit route.

#Design notes

This entry is the Local-scale sibling of Collector Transit and Arterial Transit. All three follow the same override logic, moving Transit to the top of their respective base order once a route is designated, rather than treating transit priority as automatic on every street a bus happens to use.1

Collector Transit (COL-CTR-05) and Arterial Transit (BRT/LRT) (ART-ATR-04) (this pattern's siblings across Functional Classification, following the same override logic per this page's own Design notes)

#Getting there: Retrofit path options

Parking-lane reallocation (RFT-CDR-05), Transit priority lane retrofit (RFT-CDR-06)

#References

  1. Precedent-based NACTO, Transit Street Design Guide, 2016.(opens in new tab)

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