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<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">April 21, 2017</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:200%;"><h3 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 170%;">Columbia Public Works partnering with FHWA in conducting survey on experimental bike pavement markings</h3>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Columbia Public Works announced on Friday that it is asking the public to view experimental bike pavement markings at four Columbia intersections and then take an online survey. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The experimental bike markings are currently located </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">on the northbound and southbound approaches of Garth and Broadway, Garth and Worley, West Boulevard and Worley, and West Boulevard and Broadway.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The survey is available on the Public Works website at </span><a href="http://www.como.gov/publicworks/biking"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.como.gov/publicworks/biking</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as well as <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ColumbiaMissouriPublicWorks/photos/a.491386420893844.114936.476187885747031/1521160357916440/?type=3&theater">Facebook</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/pub_works"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Works is working in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) who produces the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) to test the effectiveness of the markings. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Feedback from the survey will be provided to the FHWA and if successful could be included in future editions of the MUTCD manual," said Traffic Engineer Lee White. "They were previously tested in a bicycle simulator at the University of Missouri-Columbia's ZouSim testing lab in 2015."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All public agencies and owners of private roads open to public travel rely on the MUTCD to bring uniformity to the roadway.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The survey will close on July 5, 2017. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you have special needs or do not have electronic access to the survey, please contact Ted Curtis at (573) 489-8853.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Any bike pavement markings added to Columbia intersections as a result of this survey would be paid for through the Federal Highway Administration's Non-Motorized Transportation grant that Columbia received in 2012 known as Getabout Columbia. </span></p>
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<p><strong>Getabout Columbia</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a collaboration of Columbia Public Works (infrastructure and capital improvement) and Columbia Parks and Recreation (education and outreach). </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">More information is available online at: </span><a href="http://www.como.gov/publicworks/getabout/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.como.gov/publicworks/getabout</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<p><strong>MUTCD</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has been in existence for 80 years and provides national standards for all traffic control devices. More information is available at </span><a href="http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><strong>Direct Link to the Survey:</strong> <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/s8ahD4NUovNGi9dl1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://goo.gl/forms/s8ahD4NUovNGi9dl1</span></a></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Photo Courtesy of Alta Planning + Design, Inc.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Student completing a simulated course at the MU ZouSim testing lab.</span></li>
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