How might more bike infrastructure in Springfield mitigate the impact of the amount of street collisions and injuries for micro mobility user?

context of the problem

THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING RIGHT NOW HAS A HIGH RISK AND ARE UNSAFE FOR THE PEOPLE

PEOPLE DRIVING DONT WANT TO SHARE THE ROAD. THEY THINK THEY ALWAYS HAVE THE RIGHT AWAY

benefits of bike infrastructure

POSITIVE HEATH EFFECTS

IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL USE IT

POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS

THE US FALLS BEHIND IN THE AMOUNT OF CYCLISTS WE HAVE SO WE FALL BEHIND IN INFRASRRTCUTRE AVALAIBLE

COUNTRIES OUTSIDE US: G8-canada: second largest emmison (25%). 1/2 of that comes from cars. "In Canada, transportation is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 25% of total emissions. Private automobile use accounts for about half of all transportation-related emissions. Active transportation, which is any form of human-powered transportation, can mitigate the health effects of the climate crisis by decreasing transportation-related emissions." " data from 7 European cities found that those who switch 1 trip per day from car driving to cycling reduce their carbon footprint by about 0.5 metric tons per year. Thus, if 10% of the population were to change their travel behaviour, the emissions savings would be around 4% of life-cycle carbon dioxide emissions from all car travel. "

BOSTON MA:G7- "More trips by bike is essential to reaching our climate and public health goals. Approximately one-third of Boston's greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation." ~ " Greater biking accessibility means more opportunities for our residents to exercise and explore our city and a reduced carbon footprint that will support neighborhoods that are disproportionately harmed by air pollution.”

Using less of cars and more of bikes can cause emmisons to drop

G7- "Physical activity improves well-being; allows for prolonged independence as we age; prevents development of chronic diseases such as diabetes, coronary artery disease, and depression; and decreases all-cause mortality"

G4" Median bike traffic counts were highest in cycle tracks, bike lanes, and paved multi use paths"

G7- "50 percent of Boston residents probably or definitely would bike more if separated bike lanes were in their neighborhood. And 77 percent of Boston respondents supported building separated bike lanes even if some space for driving or parking was removed. "


EFFECTIVENESS OF TYPES OF INFRASTRUCTURE

SEPERATED BIKE LANES ARE MOST BENIFICIAL

G6- cyclist crash frequencies were higher and more likely at roundabouts with bike lanes, especially compared to sites with separated cycle paths"

G6- "Roundabouts with on-roadway bike lanes performed worse and had greater increases in bicycle crashes than roundabouts with separated cycle paths or no bicycle facilities. "

G2- The two non-intersecting studies examined 87% and 89% crashes on roads with and without marked bike lanes and on sidewalks version roads respectively.

G6- "Crash data and observations suggest that when cyclists “take the lane” and operate as vehicles - as is allowed or even recommended in some current design guidelines - thus leads to conflicts and crashes between circulating cyclists and entering drivers who may have “looked but failed to see” the cyclist."

G6 "roundabouts with more bicycle traffic were perceived to be less dangerous, while roundabouts with higher motor vehicle volumes were perceived to be more dangerous and decreased the perceived satisfaction for cycling at roundabouts."

G4- "Bicycle injury rates are higher in countries where cyclist for transportation is less common". G2-" Higher risk of injury associated with cycling in north america"

IMPLEMENTATION OF BIKE INFRASTRUCURE AND FUTURE PLANS

click to edit

WHEN INFRASTRUCTURE IS ADDED THERE IS A BIG DECREASE OF COLLSION AND INJURY

G3- "Cyclist ksi declined by 17 within the bike share zone after one year of operation"

G1- "found bicycle lanes were associated with reduced crash odds of 48% in streets segments adjacent to 4 exit intersections, of 40% in streets with one or two way stop intersections and of 43% in high traffic volume streets."

HOW SPRINGFILED CAN BENIFIT AND IMPLEMENT

G4- "The following 5 route types had significantly lower risk in the unadjusted analysis: major streets without parked cars and and with no bike infrastructure, major streets without parked cars and with bike lanes, local streets with no infrastructure, local streets designed as bike routes and cycle tracks"

Canada and other countries outside the united states can see many benfitits to adding infratructure because when you have safe places for peple to use they will use it more. What they found was that even a few trips being changed from moter vehicle to a human powered vehicle can go along way and help change the environment.

Boston ( Massachussets and the united states overall as well) has alot of emmisons coming from transportation. They know that with an increase in infrastructure there will be an increase in people using it and that will help decrease some of the transportation greenhouse gas emmisons.

It has been proven that physical activity benifits mental and physical health. adding bike infrastructure will help people move more because they feel safe to do so. so not only does it make people safer it makes people move more and benfitis the climate

half of boston residents want to bike and want to have that avalable to them. They are able to bike now but one thing that is lacking is safty and the citizens of boston agree that they would rather remove some parking to have the safty avalavle for them tp be able to bike and not worry about the collisons

bikers most use cycle tracks and bike lanes because thats where they feel safe, there are less crashes and collisons on bike infrastructure.

click to edit

One of the major problems of collisons is that dirvers think they own the road and they dont listen to signs that say share the road or when there is a bike lane they are driing or parking in these lanes. one of the ways we can fix this is enfore laws as well as make seperates bike lanes so cars are not able to drive or park in them.

Cyclists are supposed to share the road wheather moter speeds are low or high. byclists odviously feel safer when the speeds are lower because drivers are not speeding by and its safer for them. if we cant add bike infrastructre we can at least decrease the speeds.

bike crashes are becomming more common and there is majority of crashes on streets that have no infrastructure. With a growth in cyclists there is a growth in collsions so we need to find ways to mitigate the collison and injury risk. that being bike lanes

Bike lanes are showing worse results than Seperates bicycle tracks are showing. one reason for that may be its harder for cars to get over the seperated cycle tracks and its easier to get into bike lanes becasue they are just apart of the road

For an area like a roundabout it is not benificial for bike lanes to be included in the design. it is more benifical for there to be a seperated cycle track outside of the roudabot for the safty of the peoople.

COLOR IN BIKE LANES

G5- ." In addition, before painting the pavement 63% of the motorists signalled in the area of contention, a behaviour that increased to 84%, and the percentage of motorists that yielded in the affected area raised from 70% to 92%".

G5- Currently streets in Santiago have bike lanes of various colours, including blue, yellow, red, white and green.


G5- "red was consistently related to higher scores of the outcome variables, yellow and blue produced similar effect as well, but slightly lower. White was the weakest colour, except when the intersection was partially painted—like a chess board."

While driving people are more likley to pay attention when there is a color other than white painted on the ground. People are. used to seeing white ont the streets so they are less likley to pay attention look to see what it is for causing collisons to happpen. when paint of another color is added there is an increase in people looking at the road and paying attention.

HIGH VOLUME STREETS SEE THE BEST RESULTS

G1- "Bicycle lanes are most effective on high volume vehicular traffic roadways. High volume traffic street segments have 42.8% fewer injury crashes when bike lanes are present "

cyclists do not feel safe on high volume streets where cars are going fast speeds and driving more recklessly. Bike infrastcture especially on these streets will help alot because the cyclists dont have to share the road with moter vehicles and the road overall becomes safer. when high volume streets did impleemnt bike infrastruclre they saw almost a 50% decrease in collison and injury

G6- "roundabouts with more bicycle traffic were perceived to be less dangerous, while roundabouts with higher motor vehicle volumes were perceived to be more dangerous and decreased the perceived satisfaction for cycling at roundabouts."

in a study conducted around roudabouts they found that when speed limits were higher there is more of a danger for bikers. so when we are thibking about where bike infrastructure should be implemented and benifit the most high volume streets shoule be near the top of the list because we will see a large decrease in collsions, mot studes show by at least 50%

They added multipe colors to roads and they all saw good resluts other than white because people are used to seeing white.

The united states has less cyclists than other countries, too see a higher number of cyclists we need to see bike infrastructyre because people will use it if they build it

THIS IS WORKING IN MANY CITIES SO AND SO CITIES ARE HAVING PLANS TO IMPLEMENT MORE

G3- NEW YORK"Continue to implement 50 lane miles of bicycle facilities a year, including at least ten lane miles of protected bicycle lanes"
"Create or enhance 75 lane miles of bicycle facilities in Priority Bicycle Districts by 2022"

G7- "Build speed humps in 30 neighborhood zones, starting with ten neighborhood zones next year. "
"Grow our public bike share (Bluebikes) by 40 percent, adding more than 100 new stations. "
"Expand our bike network so that 50 percent of residents will be a 3-minute walk from a safe and connected bike route, prioritizing links with a history of safety incidents. "

G1- PHILADELPHIA "in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia has invested in substantial new infrastructure, has an increasing volume of cyclists, a variety of road types, and a relatively high number of collision across a variety of types of road conditions."

They are seeing positive resluts quickly. in just a year they are seeing declines and postive results from adding bike infrastructure to cities

Bicycle lanes are decreasing street collisons and injuries by almost 50% when they are implemented

Therre are many cities aroud us and many big cicties implemeting bike lanes into there future plans. they see all of the benifits from heath to climate to bliss. and they know that when they implementet bike infrastructure people will use it.

Springfield has many streets that could benifit from bike infratruture. we have many 4 lane high volume streets like Parker st, State st, and Boston rd. Springfield has started implementing bike lanes in some places like bay st where there is alot of people on foot and on car. they also added color so ive also seen people pay more attention while driving.

Springfield has dangerous streets, for everyone. we have people driving crazy on high volime streets which are also the streets where people are biking and walking to get to the same places. if we implement bike infrastructure it will make cyclists safer because they dont have to take side walks away from pedestrians and they dont have to bike in streets where they are unsafe. m m

G9- " MassDOT's crash data indicate that Springfield's streets aren't just dangerous for pedestrians: the city is home to about 2.2 percent of the Commonwealth’s population, but the 2,883 injury- or death-causing crashes that happened in the city during 2020 and 2021 represent about 5.9 percent of the Commonwealth’s total number of serious crashes."

G9- "In 2021, four of Springfield's 9 pedestrian deaths occurred on just one street: State Street, a four-lane arterial that extends east from the city's downtown area and divides residential neighborhoods that are home to high proportions of Black and Hispanic residents."