Late last month, the Portland Bureau of Transportation received approval from the Federal Highway Administration to use red coloring on bus-only lanes. Since the use of red to designate bus-only lanes hasn’t been fully adopted into the FHWA’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), cities that want to use the treatment have had to “request to experiment”. After going through an application process, Portland is now on the list of cities sanctioned to use the color. — Bike Portland
Bus-only lanes are sweeping the nation.
With recent federal approvals in hand, Portland, Oregon is set to become the latest major American city to implement bus-only lanes in its downtown and suburban districts.
Portland joins New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Seattle, among others, in instituting the lanes. The recent implementation of bus-only lanes in New York City has transformed one of the city's notoriously traffic-choked cross-town streets into a pedestrian paradise.
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