Civil Engineering Reference
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Curb bus lanes are needed during peak hours (i.e., 40 buses per hour)
Where curb parking is prohibited throughout the day, it is essential to provide
access to impacted facilities
either on opposite sides of a street or off-street. It
is sometimes desirable to provide
—
during morning and
evening off-peak periods when good delivery and pickups are permitted
“
access windows
”
16.5.3 Congestion Relief Benefits of Curb Parking
Management
Congestion is relieved by:
Providing additional travel lanes during busy traf
c periods
Implementing dynamically variable parking rates where curb parking demand
exceeds curb parking supply thus ensuring parking space availability [
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Restricting curbside loading and unloading to midblock locations (Fig.
16.2
)
Effective enforcement of parking and loading and loading restrictions.
Fig. 16.2 Illustration of
delay caused by Double
Parker.
Source
Reference [
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