Useful Resources

Understanding Flexibility in Transportation Design - Summary Document (pdf, 1.17 mb)	Understanding Flexibility in Transportation Design - Washington (pdf, 9.8 mb)

Arterial Design Guidance
Recognizing that the WSDOT Design Manual has traditionally focused on freeway and rural highway-type designs, the companion document (pdf, 9.8 mb) provides conceptual guidance for the application of context sensitive design in the project development process.

Urban Design Alternatives: Medians and Roadsides Brochure (pdf, 933 kb)

WACs and RCWs
The following WACs and RCWs have been referred to in recent meetings:

• RCW 35.78.040 — City streets — Design Standards….approval of deviations
• RCW 46.61.400 — Speed restrictions — basic rule and maximum limits
• RCW 46.61.415 — Speed restrictions — when local authorities may alter maximum limits
• RCW 47.24.020 — City streets as part of state highways — jurisdiction
• WAC 468-18-050 — DOT city/county project coordination — policy on construction, improvement & maintenance of intersections

Related web sites

• FHWA Context Sensitive Design Website
• WSDOT Design Manual
• Bicycles/Pedestrians
• Local Agency Guidelines (LAG)
• WSDOT Community Planning and Development
• Local Programs Safety Management
• Roundabouts
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• WSDOT Standard Plans
• Highway Safety Issues Group
• FHWA Office of International Programs
• WSDOT's Building Projects that Build Communities (pdf, 3.89 mb)
• New Jersey DOT's "Flexible Design of New Jersey's Main Streets" (pdf, 4 mb)