West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance

6 safer road crossings are coming soon

Tuesday, July 14 by silvia

Those pedestrian-activated yellow flashing lights are being installed at 6 more crucial crossings around town.

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Tags: crosswalk, pedestrian safety, rapid flashing beacon, RRFB, walkability, walkable community
Posted in Advocacy, Safe Routes to School, Safety, visibility, Walkability |

Mercer County makes it safer to cross Edinburg Road

Monday, April 20 by silvia

Back in the fall, the WWBPA arranged a “walk and talk” with Mercer County’s engineer to discuss the new multi-use path on Edinburg Road by Mercer County Park. Part of the feedback was the need for pedestrian-activated flashing lights (rectangular rapid-flashing beacons to engineers) at the new crosswalk from Howell Court to help residents safely cross Edinburg Road (a county road).

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Tags: Edinburg Road, pedestrian safety, Rabbit Hill Road, RRFB, walkability, walkable community
Posted in Edinburg Road, Safety, Walkability |

Township budget: What’s in it for walking and biking?

Monday, April 13 by silvia

West Windsor government officials have proposed a capital improvement budget for FY26-27 that once again includes money for biking and walking projects — but also makes a cut in one key area.

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Tags: crosswalks, RRFB, walkability, washington road
Posted in Advocacy, Capital Budget, Cranbury Road, North Post Road |

A proclamation in honor of the WWBPA

Tuesday, February 10 by silvia

This proclamation from West Windsor Township honors the 20 years of work done by the West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance to make our community more walkable and bikeable.

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Tags: bikeability, walkability
Posted in Advocacy, Bikeability, Safety, Walkability |

20 years of WWBPA: Thanks to all those who made it happen

Monday, January 12 by silvia

20 years ago today — on Jan. 12, 2006 — the West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian held its first meeting. As we celebrate our 20th anniversary, we give a special shout-out to all those who have served on our board as well as on our predecessor organizations.

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Tags: bikeability, walkability
Posted in Advocacy, Trustees |

A special ‘walk and talk’ about a new bi-directional path

Thursday, September 25 by silvia

The West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance invites you to a special “walk and talk” with the head of Mercer County’s engineering department this Friday afternoon.

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Tags: bikeability, biking, Community Walk, Edinburg Road, Mercer County Park, mercer county roads, walkability, walkable
Posted in Advocacy, Bikeability, Edinburg Road, Mercer County Park, Pedestrian, Walkability |

Learning to Love Your Traffic Engineer ? Standards

Wednesday, December 11 by JerryFoster

To learn to love our traffic engineers, we have to understand why they don?t feel they have the authority to design roads to meet citizens? needs ? the standards won?t let them.

Marohn notes that standards are ?the engineering profession’s version of defensive medicine.?

Gary Toth invites us to ?marvel at how thoroughly the transportation establishment delivered on its perceived mandate?, including ??language/terminology; funding mechanisms; curriculum at universities; values; and policies. Common professional organizations? reinforce and standardize this? at a scale that has rarely been matched by any other profession.?

Citizens should note that engineers are required to follow the standards for traffic signals (Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices) – the others are guidelines.

Toth advises ?Design manuals often present standards in ranges from minimum to desirable. Has the designer selected the desirables instead of minimums?? Residents will want the minimums, as the ?desirables? are from the point of view of creating a wider, straighter and faster roadway.

In this series, we?ve set up a ?straw man? based on traditional engineering practices. The critique reported here comes from within the profession, however, and context sensitive standards such as NJDOT?s Smart Transportation Guidebook have been published that, if implemented, will significantly improve livability, which is the goal of the WWBPA.

We?ve seen how standards? flexibility enable engineers to design bike and walk friendly roadways, so in our next installment, we?ll look at liability concerns.

Tags: AARP, AASHTO, bike friendly, bikeability, charles marohn, confessions of a recovering engineer, fhwa, Gary Toth, how to engage your transportation agency, learning to love your traffic engineer, livability, Livable Communities, livable streets, NACTO, roadway design standards, Smart Transportation Guidebook, standards, strong towns, traffic engineers, walk friendly, walkability
Posted in Advocacy |