City Park Esplanade Bikeway
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1 CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK 2 PROGRAM PURPOSE & PHILOSOPHY All Denver residents, regardless of how they choose to get around, deserve a safe, accessible, reliable and connected transportation system that provides access to jobs and amenities. CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK 3 WHY WE ARE HERE TODAY • Elevate Denver bond program approved by voters in 2017 to enhance roads, sidewalks, parks, recreation centers, libraries, cultural centers, public-owned buildings, health and safety facilities. • Included: $18 million toward the design and construction of 50 miles of high comfort bikeways citywide (neighborhood bikeways and protected bike lanes) from phases 1 and 2 of CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK Denver moves bicycles plan 4 HOW DENVERITES FEEL ABOUT BICYCLING CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK INDICATE THEY COULD RIDE A BICYCLE ON DENVER’S 16% STREETS TODAY Source: DRCOG statistically valid survey of Metro-Denverites 5 HOW DENVERITES FEEL ABOUT BICYCLING INDICATE THEY WOULD RIDE A BICYCLE IF THEY HAD CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK THE OPTION OF A NETWORK OF HIGH COMFORT 75% BIKEWAYS Source: DRCOG statistically valid survey of Metro-Denverites 6 WHAT’S A HIGH COMFORT BIKEWAY? BUILDING BLOCKS OF A PROTECTED BIKE LANE Horizontal Buffer Vertical Element High visibility CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK markings of conflict areas Photo Source: Minneapolis Public Works 7 HCB’S FURTHER VISION ZERO GOALS CURRENT TRENDS MOBILITY GOALS POPULATION HCBs SUPPPORT THESE GOALS 2010 2017 Increase mode shift What is Vision Zero? CRASHES To reduce all transportation related CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK fatalities and serious injuries to ZERO. Decrease crashes 2011 2018 8 BENEFITS OF HIGH COMFORT BIKEWAYS Reduce/Eliminate Design dooring issues. Impacts: Reduce/Eliminate SAFETY parking and loading conflicts. COMFORT Reduce conflicts/slow turning vehicles RIDERSHIP Reduce stress for all road users by CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK providing space for ALL. SHIFTED TRIPS Source: Monsere et al. Lessons from the Green Lanes: Evaluating Protected Bike Lanes in the U.S. NITCRR-583. Portland, OR: Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC), 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/trec.115 9 YOUR HIGH COMFORT BIKEWAY IN CONTEXT Links to other bikeways Transit stops Schools Parks EXAMPLE East High School High East CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK Bus Stop 10 BIKEWAY DEMAND CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK 11 CITY PARK ESPLANADE EXISTING CONDITIONS Include existing cross-section of bikeway CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK Door zone conflict Intersection Conflicts Loading issues Vehicles blocking bikeway 12 WHAT WE HEARD - CONSIDERATIONS SCHOOL VERTICAL INTERSECTION PARKING/LOADING ELEMENT DESIGN PARKWAY OPTION PROJECT EXTENTS CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK 13 WHAT WE HEARD – MAJOR TOPICS Parkway Option Project Extents Loading/Parking Vertical Element Intersections Bicycle Safety Project Need? CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK Project Configuration 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 14 WHAT WE HEARD … AND HOW WE ADDRESSED IT Maintaining most existing parking Impacts to Parking spaces. Examining existing parking/loading plan, and will reevaluate after installation. Adding robust buffer between bike lane School Loading and parking/loading. Working with school on loading education and enforcement. CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK Design accommodates large number of Intersection Design turning vehicles. 15 WHAT WE HEARD … AND HOW WE ADDRESSED IT Support for Parking Protected Moving forward with this design. Bike Lanes Off-Street or Median- Running Currently not supported by Parks. Could Bike Lanes be reconsidered in future. Currently no funding for extension, but Extend Bikeway South City will continue discussing bike lane extension to Elizabeth/Columbine CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK Currently no funding for additional Extend Improvements onto materials, but City will continue 16th Ave discussion on adding physical barrier on 16th Ave west of Esplanade 16 SELECTED ALTERNATIVE Insert Proposed Bikeway Cross-Section Call-out how your design minimizes impacts heard: Call-out how it improves safety: The project improves safety by: The project minimizes impacts heard by: • Providing protected space (parked cars • Using robust vertical protection CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK and concrete median) for people on bikes (concrete buffer median and flex • Creating clear delineation of parking and posts) travel lane • Single travel lane width discourages • Improvements are within existing roadway illegal loading 17 CITY PARK ESPLANADE SELECTED ALTERNATIVE - SOUTH RIGHT TURN SHIFT/BEND “IN” LANE NO PARKING OR LOADING PARKING CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK CURB/MEDIAN REDUCED AT PROTECTION DRIVEWAYS 18 CITY PARK ESPLANADE SELECTED ALTERNATIVE - NORTH WILL ADD FIELD PAINTED CURB EMERGENCY ACCESS EXTENSION NO PARKING OR LOADING CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK RIGHT TURN SHIFT/BEND “IN” LANE 19 NEXT STEPS TIMELINE Next Steps: • Update plans and finalize • Demonstration project? • Construction – Summer 2020 pending contractor availability November 3rd Round Input from EHS December Public Meeting #2 October January Summer 60% Plans 100% Plans Construction December Update Plans March Plan Finalization CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK Fall Winter Spring Summer 2019 2020 20 WEBSITE: denvergov.org/bikeprogram QUESTION & ANSWER Michael Koslow [email protected] CITY PARK ESPLANADE CITY PARK THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!.