Curbs, Medians, Tables
Stevens Avenue Project: Tables, Medians, and curbing
 |
This is a
shot of the Pleasant-Stevens intersection / speed table looking North, Nov. 1998.
This is the only known speed table under a signal in the U.S. The original traffic calming plan would have specifically eliminated parking within 50 feet of the table, which would have meant no parking anywhere in this area, to the North end of the orange building. |
I passed out a flier about the no parking situation, and I gather that the business owners got on the phone, not to mention bending the ear of the mayor when he walked around one day, talking to shop owners. Guess what specifically got dropped from the ordinance! Parking has been unaffected since.
Right: July, 1997: Remember,
according to the original CMAQ funding request from the city to
the Federal Highway Administration, the project was to "beautify
the avenue", amongst other things. This the view from opposite
New St. looking North. This chicane eliminated all the
parking that Catherine McCauley HS used to have. The "bike lane"
looks a little rugged, no matter what side of the curbing
you are on! The point of the curb is about 18" from the original
curbing- just right to catch a pedal on!
Notice that the asphalt forces bikes out closer to moving traffic-- more
safety! |
|
 |
This was cute: the median on the very north end of the avenue blocked off access to a church when approaching from the south. To get to church if you were headed North, you had to go about 400' further, and pull a U-turn, or circle in and out of a bakery store parking lot. This is a high accident area without the curbing! If you wanted to go North out of the driveway, you had to go about 200' South, and U-turn, or 3-point in a driveway! People were not too happy about this.
|