Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 1 Textured & Colored Crosswalks: Are they worth the trouble & expense?

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Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 1 Textured & Colored Crosswalks: Are they worth the trouble & expense? Prepared by Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists LLC Permission to use granted if source quoted

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 2 Textured crosswalks: In theory – more visible. In reality?

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 3 Bird’s eye perspective - before

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 4 Bird’s eye perspective - proposed

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 5 What the pedestrian sees

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 6 What the driver sees

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 7 What the pedestrian sees

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 8 What the driver sees

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 9 What the pedestrian sees

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 10 What the driver sees

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 11 Brick crosswalks: prone to failure, hard on wheelchair users

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 12 Concrete crosswalk: more durable, less visible, hard to build

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 13 Concrete crosswalk: hard to maintain joint between concrete & asphalt.

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 14 Mitigation measures for colored crosswalks

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 15 Supplement textured crosswalks with white lines to increase visibility

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 16 Brick street with asphalt crosswalks

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 17 Idea: imbed white crosswalk within contrasting color

Textured crosswalks – Michael Ronkin Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists 18 Driver perspective: crosswalks show up well