Bicycling on 16th Street NW

Bicycling on 16th Street NW
Originally uploaded by rllayman.

This photo is by Steve Pinkus. Steve calls this a LOS F.

LOS means levels of service. Traditionally, traffic engineers use the LOS scale to refer to traffic flow.

Others such as Dan Burden argue for a broadening of thinking about LOS to something more like LOQ, or levels of quality, for multiple modes, rather than only focusing on automobility.

I was talking with a friend-colleague-city planner about my "transit first" paper (more ideas than words at this point), and she said "walking first, biking second, transit third."

So there are other perspectives after all.