DRAFT
RECOMMENDATIONS
Street
& Sidewalk Improvements in Reservoir Hill
The
following notes were developed from a Housing & Development Team
discussion
and a tour of the community with Department of Transportation personnel
on 7
June 2012.
These have
not been formally proposed.
We encourage everyone to provide feedback on these
suggestions.
l Park Avenue & Reservoir Street
- Poor alignment of roads and sidewalks.
- Community members would like DOT to consider
installing crosswalks at all intersections at this location. Community
representatives site heavy pedestrian traffic, and the presence of a nearby
pre-school.
l Mt. Royal
Terrace
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Presence of the
83 South on ramp makes this neighborhood street feel like a highway.
Community made recommendations for a Green buffer/road diet/bike lane. Reduce
number of travel lanes, maintain parking on both sides of streets, green right
of way in order to slow traffic, improve livability and encourage property
sales.
-
Remove the
designation of Mt Royal Terrace as an on-ramp, and re-direct the traffic from Druid Park Lake Drive
to wrap around to 29th Street
via 28th Street
and Sisson Street. Once this is done, you can close Mt Royal
off from DPLD traffic, or put a stop sign up, or narrow the road, etc. But step one would be to remove the on-ramp
designation.
-
Stop signs or
speed bumps can be placed on Mt Royal Terrace until the on ramp designation is
removed. Should be closed off on north
end so sidewalk is continuous to 28th
Street.
l Lennox & Brookfield
Ave
- Irregular
alignment of streets and sidewalks.
- Community
members are pleased with recent Art in the Public Right of Way Installation
- Busy
intersection with pedestrian foot traffic, and the presence of the neighborhood
recreational center. Community members would like to see new crosswalks added. Adapt
crosswalks to the ways residents use the intersection. There is considerable
diagonal crossings. Include pedestrian paddles with crosswalks.
- Lane markings ( Mr. Habib from Traffic
communicated that intersection could use pavement markings, he noted that there
are no markings currently present at this intersection)
-
Shorten the
distance people have to cross. Mark communicated that planted medians for
traffic calming could be researched for feasibility.
l
Linden
& Lennox
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Located on south
side of John Eager Howard
School. Buses load and
unload just north of this intersection. Speeding cars have been a long standing
problem.
- There are no
crosswalks at this intersection though crossing here is significant.
-
The Community
would like an east-west crosswalk painted here across Linden. The community would also like a pedestrian
island considered for this location.
l
Ducatel/ Linden Ave
- Community members cite heavy traffic at
this intersection. Would like DOT to consider options for slowing traffic and
creating a pedestrian friendly street. Possibilities discussed were cutting off
Ducatel northbound with a green strip, green pedestrian islands at Linden and Brookfield and Linden and Ducatel, and
bump outs.. John Eager Elementary School
is located in extremely close proximity to the intersection. The school proposes creating a bus loop once
a modular building bordering Linden
is removed this summer.
l Linden & Whitelock Ave
- Community members would like
Pedestrian paddles added at this intersection (Traffic)
- The community is interested in knowing
whether or not it is a viable option to convert the 2400 Blk of Linden from one
way to two way conversion possible ( Traffic)
l Whitelock Street
- Community would like DOT to investigate all
intersections for potential traffic calming treatments to make the area safer
for pedestrians and children ( Traffic)
-
This might call
for a traffic calming study for Whitelock
Street from Park Avenue west to Madison Avenue.
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Whitelock is a
broad street. The community wants to shorten the distance people have to cross
Whitelock, which could include pedestrian islands or bump outs.
Whitelock & Brookfield
- Community would like to see crosswalks
installed at the intersection, and the presence of pedestrian paddles. (
Traffic)
-
Sidewalk/curb repair is needed on the south side of Whitlock Street,
including the Westside of the block of Brookfield
immediately south of Whitelock
Street. ( TEC)
-
In addition to
repairing the sidewalk along the south side of Whitelock and east side of
Brookfield, the community requests assistance with its plan to rehabilitate the
vacant lots along the south side of the 900 block of Whitelock into a
resident-built community park. Neighbors designed a site plan in which the
portion of the sidewalk nearest the intersection with Brookfield would be converted into a
bioretention area for storm water runoff coming down Whitelock. As a result,
the community requests DOT assistance with approving the design and assisting
with the sidewalk re-route through the future park site.
l 900
Blk of Chauncey
- Sidewalks and footways in need of
repair.
- Would like two crosswalks added at the
2400 Blk of Linden in front of the Linden Market on Linden Avenue north
and south of Chauncey.
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Linden & Druid Park Lake Drive
- This is an important entrance to the community, and
an important crossing for residents accessing Druid Hill Park.
-
Would like DOT
to consider making this Intersection safer for pedestrians, and make the area
more comfortable to improve access to Druid Hill Park.
-
This might call
for a traffic calming study for Druid
Park Lake Drive from Madison Avenue east to Brookfield Avenue.
- Improve appearance of existing cross walk.
- Extend pedestrian crossing time. It’s
only 18 seconds. ( Traffic)
- Would like DOT to consider
Planting/widening the median on Druid
Park Lake Drive
- 825- 900 Blks of Druid Park Lake Drive (
sidewalks and footways in need of repair). These are many vacant properties
along this stretch. ( TEC)
Make North
Avenue More Pedestrian Friendly
North Avenue is too wide to be pedestrian friendly. There is no
reason it needs to be six lanes (three in each direction) in front of our
neighborhood. At a previous Team meeting the suggestion was made to
narrowing it to two lanes in each direction. This would make the
intersections to cross North Avenue to Bolton Hill safer, and encourage more
cross-neighborhood walking traffic to Bolton Hill, MICA, and the rest of
downtown.
North Ave needs to be narrowed on the sides rather than
expanding median, to connect Bolton Hill and Reservoir Hill. Widened median
won't lessen psychological barrier. Also, that was the original
configuration, and would make more land available possibly on the north and
south sides. Really, it could be two lanes in rush hour and one driving
plus one parking lane on off hours. There isn't enough traffic to justify it,
and I think traffic studies will back that up. Westbound North Avenue lanes would have
two leftmost lanes as right turn only, or else make an island so pedestrians
can cross eastern side of Mt Royal across North without fear of death.
