MTGA Trails Toolkit

Design guidelines for roadway cross sections (including sidewalks and bike lanes), tee intersection crosswalks, refuge islands, and roundabouts.

The manual is designed to assist transportation planners and engineers in selecting roadway design treatments to accommodate bicycles. This is the first attempt to provide comprehensive guidelines for this process. The recommendations are based on assumptions regarding policy goals and the types of bicyclists to be accommodated, the state of the practice, and professional judgement.

Safe, convenient and well-designed facilities are essential to encourage bicycle use. This guide is designed to provide information on the development of facilities to enhance and encourage safe bicycle travel.

A list of contacts and web links for Michigan trail advocates. If you know of a publication, photos or other information that you don’t see listed, contact Josh DeBruyn @ 517.335.2918 or Cindy Krupp @ 517.335.2923 for assistance. The publication may be available online or via the League of Michigan Bicyclists.

The following reasons are what AASHTO has to say about the benefits of shoulders in three important areas: safety, capacity and maintenance. Most of these benefits apply to both shoulders on rural highways and to marked, on-street bike lanes on urban roadways. See other side for other benefits specific to urban areas.