On the other hand, today while driving I stopped at a mid-street crosswalk wheere a pedestrian was stopped at the entrance to it, and the car behind me laid on their horn, without stopping, even after I eventually passed through the crosswalk.  They kept continuously blaring while speeding (in excess of the speed limit) off to the distance.  The more things change....

I hope it helps.  The share of commuters who use bicycles has been stuck at 1% for decades.

Of course, with excessive heat being the new normal, it's hard to imagine many people being interested in bike commuting for several months of the year now.

https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2 … ailblazer/

With Speedway, they also closed it to *bicyclists*.  That ruined a thoroughfare for me.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/s … 982/?amp=1

But based on your suggestion, I just tried to go comment, and found that the comment period is closed.  The comment period opened on Jan. 27, but who would know?  The draft plan isn't even on the City's website.  I would have known about the comment period had the City posted on Nextdoor way earlier, or even posted here, but the City never posts here, even though the email list for the forum has a couple hundred transportation-interested members (though few participate).  The City never even posted here back in the day when there were double or triple the number of members, and I begged them to post their news.  They said they were too busy.  (Annick's administration excepted, she was awesome.)

Appendix H, the "Shared Streets Manual", is ENTIRELY BLANK, yet this was the one and only comment period before the plan before they revise the plan and send it to boards and Council for approval.  Incredible.

Austin Outside's feedback was perfect.  In the absence of the City explaining exactly what the hell they're suggesting, then AO's comments are about whatever it might be.

19 intersections changed

Changes:

• Increased crosswalk visibility
• Bicycle signage and added bicycle detection
• Protective green or flashing yellow arrows for left turns
• Adjusted stop light cycles and adding warning signals

https://communityimpact.com/austin/cent … tin-lives/

On the other hand, traffic fatalities are up overall, so we're heading in the wrong direction to reach "Vision Zero".

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/20 … in-austin/

https://www.kxan.com/traffic/traffic-bi … tal-metro/

I'm surprised it's getting much ridership given that dockless is so much more convenient.  Am I missing something?

(1) Austin ranked a pathetic 430th of 480 U.S. cities for its bicycle network by People for Bikes. (2020)

(2) In People for Bikes' City Rankings of North American cities, Austin ranked an embarrassing 35th for Ridership, 39th for Safety, 145th for reach, and...wait for it...307th for its bike network.  It ranked 20th overall, and its only decent score was 6th for how fast it's improving. (2020)

https://austintexas.gov/HealthyStreets

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/20 … vers-room/

Regarding resources, there is not any single one I could point out as I've always been interested in civil infrastructure so I get a lot of info from various places including city codes, TXDOT, FHWA, etc.

One place that I've seen a lot more approachable information is on citylab.com.  Lots of good article and videos there:
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/ … es/593320/

If you want something a bit more technical you could spend a lot of time reading documents from the FHSA: https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/tools/

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/20 … rsections/

https://www.bicycling.com/news/a2728786 … re-recall/

Me too, Percy, me too.

I really like how they made an effort to make the message "all road users need to be more aware" instead of "car drivers need to look our for cyclist and pedestrians" but even so the first NextDoor post after the city announced this was "but, but , but I saw a cyclist run a stop sign so they all must die horrible deaths" (I might be paraphrasing here).

Good solid tips though, including "Claim your space at intersections".

Right turns are prohibited* while bikes are cleared for going north over next to the crosswalk. That is how it should be for this kind of thing.  Trying to place myself in the pedals of a new rider, navigating the intersection is pretty easy to understand and better than trying to creep by slow motorists on their right--a danger new riders rarely appreciate.  On the sidewalk part, I've already had minor conflicts with pedestrians/scooter riders (touch the brakes, steer around, ring the bell) and though I'm aware of the problems with the curb cuts that cross the sidewalk-bound lead-up to the intersection, so far I haven't experienced any conflict there.  So long as I slow down to a sidewalk speed instead of proceeding along the street at a normal speed (I'm not terribly fast, but, still, I have to slow down for this little detour to the crosswalk), it's not a big problem.  The signalization + markings make it safer than the too-often installed set up of painting a bike lane all the way to the intersection where motorists may be turning right across the bike lane, because the new set up doesn't lure cyclists into an unsafe road position.  I've seen scooter riders and cyclists ignore the stop signal and run the intersection anyway, but that's the same problem as a regular intersection.  It delays some right-turning motorists and it delays some cyclists, of course, but that's not a huge deal .

To mitigate the potential trouble with conflicts with motorists at the curb cuts, I think the curb cuts across the sidewalk part should be closed -- put curbs there.  That wouldn't be a problem for most businesses--Compass Bank on the south side of the street would be the one with the most legit complaint (it would limit bank access to Oltorf only).  As it is, it's not really a "protected" facility. 

Pretty expensive as compared to putting cyclists over to the left of a turn lane, but from a standpoint of being well thought out, it's as good as Austin has done, AFAIK.

*Edit: I now note that motorists who want to turn right from west-bound Oltorf to Congress cross the bike-crosswalk without warning while cyclists have the green to cross Oltorf.