Blount Street Person Street Corridor Study Final Report
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1 What We Heard | Section 01 BP Blount St • Person St Corridor Study Corridor Plan Report - Executive Summary 0 Mile 1/4 1/2 Final ReportNorth Adopted by Raleigh City Council: July 16, 2013 Blount St • Person St | Corridor Study BP Table of Contents ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT 03 ALTERNATIVESALTERNATIVES DEVELDEVELOPMENTOPMENT + DESIGN - This report is organized into the following sections that document Illustrates the translation ofof the vision to design alternatives the process, design development and technical analysis of the corridor study. Each section functions as a stand-alone document 3.1 DDesignesign Vision and as part of the overall report. 3.2 What ChanChangege is Possible? 3.3 Design AAlternativeslternatives SummarySummary 3.4 RoadRoad DietDiet EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - 3.5 Two-WaTwo-Wayy Restoration Provides an overview of the vision, design, evaluation, and implementation The Vision 04 ALTERNATIVES TRAFFIC EVALUATIONEVALUATION - The Choice SummarizesSummarizes the tratraffiffi c analysis and conclusionsconclusions How Do We Get There? 4.1 MethodologyMethodology + AssumptionsAssumptions Acknowledgements 4.2 Summary ConclusionsConclusions 0101 ISSUESISSUES + OPPORTUNITIESOPPORTUNITIES - 4.3 No Build (2020) - Intersection / Corridor LOS + DelayDelay HighlightsHighlights thethe corricorridor’sdor’s unique conditionsconditions andand contextcontext 4.4 RoadRoad Diet (2020) - Intersection / CorridorCorridor LOS + DelayDelay 4.5 Two-Way Restoration (2020) - Intersection Corridor LOS + Delay 1.11.1 WhatWhat We HeHeardard Prepared for: 4.6 Blount / Person Alternatives ComComparisonparison 1.21.2 LandLand UseUse + UrbanUrban FormForm City of Raleigh, North Carolina 4.7 Partial Two-WayTwo-Way EvaluationEvaluation 1.3 Traffi c + Multimodal MobilityMobility Raleigh Urban Design Center 4.8 Roundabout Analysis 1.4 ExistinExistingg Street DesiDesigngn The Honorable Mayor Nancy McFarlane SUPPORTSUPPORT DDOCUMENTSOCUMENTS - STREETSTREET DEDESIGNSIGN - 02 Blount St-Person St Corridor Study - Traffi c Capacity Analysis ReportReport Raleigh City Council Details the streetscape designdesign alternativesalternatives Eugene Weeks, Mayor Pro Tem Blount St-Person St Corridor StudStudyy - Road Diet Conceptual Design Plan Blount St-Person St Corridor Study - Opinion ooff Probable CosCostt Mary-Ann Baldwin 22.1.1 WhWhatat MMakesakes a GreGreatat StreetStreet?? Thomas G. Crowder 2.2 Purpose ooff the Design Guidelines Bonner Gaylord 2.3 Components ofof a Streetscape John Odom 2.4 Sidewalk SSpatialpatial StandardsStandards Randall K. Stagner 2.5 Green Street DesiDesigngn Russ Stephenson 22.6.6 Bulb-OutsBulb-Outs 2.7 Street Furnishings + Materials Prepared by: 2.8 VeVehicularhicular RoadwayRoadway AECOM 2.9 Intersections + Roundabouts Alta/Greenways Susan Hatchell Landscape Architecture, PLLC Adopted: July 16, 2013 Blount St • Person St | Corridor Study 4 | Executive Summary EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Vision Theme: Walkable + Multimodal Theme: Traffi c + Mobility The Blount St.-Person St. Corridor can be seen through multiple lenses: as a major urban thoroughfare, as a Vision: A Complete Street... Vision: A Functional Street... commercial and business street, and as a neighborhood address. The corridor extends over fi ve miles from Capital The corridor has the potential to encourage and serve a wide range of users, The corridor provides valuable and needed access to Downtown Raleigh, adjacent Boulevard to Interstate 40, including Wake Forest Road, accommodating motor vehicles is just one. The community sees a future corridor neighborhoods, and major regional destinations such as the State Capital. Blount Street, Person Street, and Hammond Road, with the that is safe and highly attractive to pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users. A Providing this important access is a fundamental role of the corridor yet, the speed core of the corridor being the one-way pair of Blount Street complete street balances the range of mobility needs by providing a place for all and behavior of vehicle traffi c can be managed without signifi cantly reducing and Person Street. It runs through distinct communities with users. accessibility or capacity. A functional street provides needed access and yet calms strong histories, diff erent priorities and a range of needs. traffi c. Yet it strives to serve each of these communities in diff erent capacities, just not always successfully. The community’s vision dictates change in the corridor. Through the public process hundreds of ideas were collected about the community’s values, vision, and desired change for the Blount St.-Person St. Corridor. This collective “voice” Wake Forest Road has been sorted into a set of themes and translated into a The road diet for Wake Forest Blount & Person Street (Person Street Business District) practical vision for the corridor. These themes are critical to Road balances the function of the The three-lane to two-lane road diet accommodates traffi c the process, guiding the proposed street design and serving street to serve a range of users. while integrating bicycle lanes and additional on-street parking. as the touchstone for evaluating potential alternatives and The new street section integrates Landscaped bulb-outs visually narrow the roadway, provide needed making future decisions. cyclists, and provides safe and tree canopy, and create added sidewalk space for street-oriented attractive pedestrian crossings, businesses. while appropriately accommodating vehicles. Blount St • Person St | Corridor Study 5 Executive Summary | Theme: Business + Economic Development Theme: Neighborhood + Historic Character Vision: A Vibrant Street... Vision: A Beautiful Street... The corridor connects existing neighborhoods, retail districts, downtown offi ces, The corridor is a unique link to Raleigh’s rich history and urban character, and and a growing number of new mixed-use and residential places. The community is home to many historic and neighborhood resources. Strengthening and envisions a thriving corridor with a wide range of housing, shopping and working protecting this character is a primary goal of the community. A beautiful street opportunities. A vibrant street attracts a range of users and development as a is the result of continued investment in streetscape, tree planting, and street place to go “to” and not just “through.” character. Blount & Person Street (South Park) Narrowed travel lanes serve to better manage vehicle behavior through the South Park Neighborhood while integrating space for on-street parking and bicycle lanes. The redefi ned street provides landscaped bulb-outs for street trees and shorter pedestrian crossings. The result is a more valuable address for existing homes and future investment. Blount St • Person St | Corridor Study 6 | Executive Summary Alternatives Summary Existing Conditions One-Way Road Diet Two-Way Restoration Partial Two-Way Alternative Peace Street Peace Street Jones Street Edenton Street Edenton Street The Choice Hargett Street Real change will require rethinking and repurposing the role Number of Lanes and function of the roadway. Lenoir Street 4 Lanes Lane Diagrams 3 Lanes The corridor’s issues and opportunities and community MLK, Jr. Blvd. MLK, Jr. Blvd. 2 Lanes (off peak) / vision have uncovered two basic design alternatives; (1) a 3 Lanes (peak) one-way road diet and (2) a two-way restoration. The design 2 Lanes process focused on developing these alternatives in order 2 Lanes + Center to understand their traffi c implications and urban design Turn Lane opportunities. The strategy that emerged was to view these alternatives not as mutually-exclusive but rather as steps in a longer-term process to reshape the corridor to fi t the community’s vision. Each step will require a choice. The choices initially are relatively clear, while later steps (such as potential two-way restoration) will require more investigation and the setting of new priorities. A Framework for Decision-Making Edenton Street In order to make informed choices the alternatives have been developed, tested, and compared to each other based on the stated themes and vision for the corridor; business and economic development, neighborhood and historic character, traffi c and mobility, and walkable and multimodal. For each theme a set of measures has been summarized Facilities Bicycle MLK, Jr. Blvd. Bike Facility Confi gurations and compared. Some are easily measured and quantifi ed None while others are more subjective. For each measure, their Bicycle Lane relative impact has been color coded for summary purposes: Sharrows dark green – positive, light green – neutral, and orange - potentially negative. The resulting implementation strategy is based on viewing the full range of alternatives (existing conditions, one-way (+2) Blocks (+2) Blocks (+2) Blocks (+2) Blocks road diet, two-way restoration) as a continuum that describes (1 side) (1 side) (1 side) (1 side) the corridor’s ultimate evolution. Achieving the vision is possible through a series of small steps and critical choices. Some initial steps will be relatively easy, requiring only Peace Street Peace Street Peace Street (-2) Blocks (-2) Blocks action and investment. Some choices, namely committing Oakwood Avenue Oakwood Avenue (1 side) Oakwood Avenue (1 side) to two-way restoration, will be more challenging, requiring a (-4) Blocks collective agreement that the community benefi t outweighs Jones Street Edenton Street Edenton Street (1 side) Edenton Street the transportation trade-off . Not every choice needs to be (+2) Blocks (+2)