After 14-year delay, neglect, and a surge in pedestrian deaths, the nation's highway and road building manual got a make-over and was published yesterday Tuesday 12/19.
What is a MUTCD? The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices is a guide for road building across the US, it is a recipe book for making our roads and traffic control on those roads uniform and consistent across the United States. It sets down the standards for design of street signage, markings to make driving as uniform and familiar as possible whether a motorist is in New York City, Los Angeles or Laguna Beach.
So What? Given the change in vehicle types, micromobility vehicles, electric cars bikes and autonomous cars the
nation's highway and road building manual got a make-over to set a new standard for accommodating different types of vehicles on our roadways.
For more details see Bloomberg CityLab here
-LS
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