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New Orleans Mobility and Parking Study Final Report New Orleans Mobility and Parking Study Final Report Downtown Development District New Orleans, Louisiana January 2009 Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates Walker Parking Consultants University of New Orleans Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. Fernandez Plans New Orleans Mobility and Parking Study Final Report Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 1 Street Classification ................................................................................................................... 1 Existing Condition ..................................................................................................................... 2 Desired Condition ...................................................................................................................... 2 Recommendation Sheets ........................................................................................................... 5 Traffic Signals and Signal Phasing ........................................................................................... 8 Traffic Control Devices ............................................................................................................ 10 Crosswalk Design and Maintenance ....................................................................................... 12 Curb Design and Alignment .................................................................................................... 14 Sidewalk Design and Maintenance ......................................................................................... 16 Americans with Disabilities (ADA) compliance ........................................................................ 18 Wayfinding .............................................................................................................................. 20 Creating a Public Parking Authority ........................................................................................ 23 Valet Parking ........................................................................................................................... 25 Creating a Park-Once Circulator ............................................................................................. 27 Bicycle System ........................................................................................................................ 29 Zoning ..................................................................................................................................... 33 On-Street Parking Management ............................................................................................. 36 Camp Street and Andrew Higgins Drive ................................................................................. 38 Julia Street and Convention Center Boulevard ....................................................................... 42 Canal Street at Tchoupitoulas Street at North Peters Street and South Peters Street ........... 48 Canal Street at Basin Street, Elk Place, North Rampart Street, and South Rampart Street ... 55 Triangle formed by Decatur Street, Conti Street, North Peters Street, and St. Louis Street ... 68 Riverfront Streetcar Stop at Esplanade ................................................................................... 73 Elysian Fields Avenue ............................................................................................................. 78 The Riverfront ......................................................................................................................... 80 Future Parking Conditions ....................................................................................................... 84 Five-Year Projection ................................................................................................................ 84 Ten-Year Projection ................................................................................................................ 91 Twenty-Year Projection ........................................................................................................... 98 Future Parking Conditions with Mobility Improvements..................................................... 106 Appendix A: Definitions .................................................................................................... A-1 Appendix B: Street Classification Existing Conditions ...................................................... B-1 Page i • Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates Inc. New Orleans Mobility and Parking Study Final Report Introduction The New Orleans Mobility and Parking Study is being conducted to support New Orleans’ revitalization through a broad focus on the full array of transportation components that serve the French Quarter, the Central Business District, the several downtown historic districts, and the Marigny Triangle/Frenchman Street Area. This document is the Study’s Final Report, presenting the following: z A Street Classification system that describes the streets in the Study Area and their different types of transportation facilities based on the project vision, local land uses, transportation systems, and stakeholder priorities; z A series of Mobility Recommendation Sheets that identify strategy- and place-based improvements across the Study Area. Together these recommendations provide overarching approaches to enhance mobility and multi-modal planning throughout the Study Area; z Analysis of existing and projected auto parking demand assuming no changes to existing transportation policy; z Final parking demand based on reduction of demand due to implementation of the Mobility Recommendations; and z Appendixes presenting an index of commonly used technical terms and the data used for the Street Classification system. Additional work products provided as part of this study (and submitted separately) include: z Development of project goals and objectives; z Analysis of existing transportation conditions; z Review of previous documents and studies; z Meeting notes from the project Kickoff, Technical Advisory Committee meeting, and Focus Group workshops; z Review of mobility plans from peer cities; z Rampart Street Technical Memo; z Summary of results from internet survey, visitor travel information, and driver intercept survey; and z Implementation Matrix. Street Classification The Street Classification system was created to support the goals and objectives endorsed by the project’s Technical Advisory Committee under Project Goal #4, especially: z Recognize that the Study Area includes several distinct neighborhoods which will have varying transportation demands and priorities. Page 1 • Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates Inc. New Orleans Mobility and Parking Study Final Report – Establish a street classification system to accommodate different types of transportation demand. – Apply the street classification in each neighborhood based on the land uses and stakeholder priorities. The Street Classification provides a framework for future development in terms of land use and roadway use. For example, if all streets are treated equal by traffic policy, then each are subject to maximizing throughput. Yet if the community agrees that certain streets are for moving traffic, some are for transit, and others are to be traffic calmed, then investment can be tailored accordingly. It recognizes the many distinct neighborhoods located within the Study Area and provides a system tailored to the unique character, transportation and land use facilities, travel demand patterns, and stakeholder priorities in each. Existing Condition Streets were classified using a two-step process. The first was to analyze each street on a block-by-block basis to establish the existing condition. This analysis included: z zoning and land use; z number of motor vehicle lanes; z transit routes (both bus and streetcar); z bike facilities; z on-street parking; z direct access to major highways; and z direct access to public parks or waterfront. Documenting block-by-block street characteristics provides a detailed, concise street classification system. Often these types of analyses are done with a broad brush; however, the objective of this task was to identify where the street function and street or block characteristics were incongruous. In addition to the existing data set, information was incorporated from the various plans and proposals reviewed in Task 1. These included the 2007 Unified New Orleans Plan, the 2005 Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan, plans for the expansion of the Tulane and LSU medical districts, among others. This layer of information helps to create an assumed condition, which directly informs the next step in the process. The complete table of existing street conditions can be found in the Appendix. Desired Condition The second step was to organize the streets based on the desired condition. For this a set of labels was created which roughly describe the various types of streets in areas such as the CBD and French Quarter of New Orleans. z Travel Streets: – Major Streets: Streets that allow for movement to serve as destinations to commercial, cultural and institutional activities as well as to connect to expressways and other Travel Streets. These streets are wide to carry a high volume of traffic. Page 2 • Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates Inc. New Orleans Mobility and Parking Study Final Report – Minor Streets: Smaller Travel Streets that serve a similar purpose in
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