Hillsborough County Complete Streets Guide

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Safer Roadways: A Complete Streets Guide

approaching an intersection. This treatment can also be used on intersections without dedicated bus lanes; in this case, a bus can still use a right-turn lane and will instead continue directly through the intersection. QUEUE JUMP LANES A queue jump lane creates a short, dedicated transit lane in combination with a dedicated transit priority signal. In this instance, a bus will approach an intersection in the queue jump lane and trigger an early green light, like a Leading Pedestrian Interval. This allows the bus to bypass traffic queued at the intersection and can also be used to help a bus merge back into traffic from a nearside bus stop. For congested intersections, this treatment can greatly improve on-time performance and reliability of the route.

Top row: Fletcher Ave Crossings, Tampa Center row: Rural Crossing, FHWA STAR; Denver Bike Crossing, denvergov.org Bottom row: Mid-block Crossing, SCCRTC.org; Mid-block Crossing NACTO

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