Chapel Hill to accommodate cyclists
Published: Tue, Aug. 19, 2008 10:30AM
Modified Tue, Aug. 19, 2008 10:34AM
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closeCHAPEL HILL -- The Town of Chapel Hill is installing a pilot sharrow project today on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from Estes Drive to North Street.
A sharrow, or shared-use pavement markings, is an experimental road treatment designed to accommodate bicyclists. A sharrow will identify the shared use of a travel lane by bicyclists and passing motorists, indicating the legal and appropriate bicyclist line of travel. It cues motorists to pass bicyclists with sufficient clearance.
The University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center has been studying motor vehicle and bicycle movements within this section of the NC 86 corridor, together with Town of Chapel Hill staff members and other officials.
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For more information, contact Bill Hunter or Libby Thomas at UNC's Highway Safety Research Center, 962-8716 or 962-7802. Or call the engineering department at the Town of Chapel Hill, 968-2833.
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