abstreet/docs/index.md

Case studies

See the main page for now. I'll probably organize everything here eventually.

Ideas to explore with A/B Street

Note: Most of these still aren't started, because the baseline simulation in the relevant area isn't working. Unknown traffic signal timing, bad guesses at the amount of off-street parking, lanes tagged incorrectly in OpenStreetMap, and simulation bugs cause unrealistic gridlock. It's hard to evaluate a change without a realistic baseline.

In progress:

• Stay Healthy Streets: Lake Washington Blvd
• West Seattle mitigations
• Simplify where the Burke Gilman crosses Corliss and Pacific
  • No write-up yet, but the proposal is included in A/B Street

TODO:

• Close Broadway and Pine to through-traffic
  • proposed here
  • partly happening already
  • another proposal
• Traffic signal timing at Montlake/520 and Montlake/Pacific
  • Walking around here is frustrating, and pre-COVID, vehicle traffic got fairly stuck
• Pedestrianizing the Ave (u-district)
  • I can't find the proposal anymore; maybe this?
• Eastlake bike lanes / RapidRide J
  • See here and here
  • Need to audit lanes in OSM along Eastlake
  • Especially with the Fairview Ave bridge out, detouring to the Cheshiahud loop isn't as useful
• Madison / RapidRide G
  • See here
• Bus lanes on Denny
  • Proposed here
• Bike Master Plan
  • Prototype the planned network
• Downtown one-way snake
  • An old crazy idea I've always wanted to try
• Unsorted ideas
  • Parking
  • Bus lanes
  • John and Broadway
  • Bad intersections
  • Bus routes