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TAP Druid Hill Auchentoroly / Mondawmin Report PDF Download Druid Hill The Access Project for Druid Hill Park Auchentoroly / Mondawmin Complete Streets Report Spring 2020 Druid Hill The Access Project for Druid Hill Park envisions a future where residents of all ages and abilities are able to reach the recreational, public health, and cultural benefits of Druid Hill Park using safe and accessible complete streets. Written & designed by Graham Coreil-Allen, Auchentoroly Terrace Resident, Public Artist, and 2018 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow. With input from the New Auchentoroly Terrace Association, the Mondawmin Neighborhood Improvement Association, Friends of Druid Hill Park, and Bikemore. Spring 2020 | tapdruidhill.org @tapdruidhill | [email protected] Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction 4 Historical Context 8 Demographics 13 Community Engagement 14 Challenges & Solutions 20 Shared Goals 27 Appendix A: Related Efforts 28 Appendix B: Walk Audit Reports 35 Endnotes 41 Executive Summary Druid Hill Park is the most valuable asset for our community. Many residents utilize the many amenities: Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, Howard P. Rawlings Conservatory, Swimming pool. basketball and tennis courts, Farmer’s Market, Pavilions for festivals, etc. It’s imperative that residents of Historic Auchentoroly Terrace community have safe, improved, and increased access to Druid Hill Park. Immediate action is needed to improve pedestrian safety. — Ms. Barbara Anderson-Dandy President, the New Auchentoroly Terrace Association The Access Project for Druid Hill Park (TAP cultural benefits of Druid Hill Park using Druid Hill) is a campaign to better connect safe and accessible “Complete Streets.” residents of West Baltimore with Druid Hill Park. A coalition of residents, city officials, and community partners are working Complete streets are streets together to increase access to the park designed and operated to be safe through transportation planning, a public and accessible for all, including health survey, and creating public art for pedestrians, transit users, pedestrian safety. We seek to convert the wheelchair riders, and people who dangerous, five-to-nine-lane-wide barrier rely on bicycles and e-scooters to highways around Druid Hill Park into get to work, school, and family. calm, liveable streets safe and accessible Each complete street is different for all. Census data shows that about half and based on the needs of the of neighbors living around Druid Hill Park surrounding neighborhood. do not have access to cars.1 As pedestrians, wheelchair riders, transit users, people who This community-based report identifies rely on bicycles and escooters, and drivers; the transportation safety and accessibility all of our neighbors also deserve priority needs on the west side of Druid Hill Park, access to the park. specifically between Auchentoroly Terrace and Mondawmin Mall / Metro Station. In TAP Druid Hill envisions a future where 2017 the Baltimore City Department of residents of all ages and abilities are able to Transportation announced the Druid Park reach the recreational, public health, and 2 Lake Drive Complete Streets Design Effort. ▶ Install protected “micro-mobility Our goal is to ensure that this planning lanes” connecting residents who process is as reflective of community rely on wheelchairs, bicycles, and voices as possible and draw additional escooters for transportation from attention to the transportation safety and Mondawmin to Druid Hill Park and accessibility needs of residents who live the Big Jump shared-use pathway. and work along Reisterstown Road. ▶ Complete the West Baltimore segment of the Baltimore This document is based on four years Greenway Trail Network. of community engagement, including pedestrian safety walks, resident ▶ Construct sheltered bus stops interviews, a public health survey, along Gwynns Falls Parkway and community events, and public art Auchentoroly Terrace serving MTA and projects. TAP Druid Hill has identified the Baltimore City Public School buses. following priorities for improving roadway safety and park access for our neighbors: ▶ Expand the free Charm City Circulator bus system with a Druid ▶ Slow car speeds to 25 miles per Hill line connecting Mondawmin hour or less and reduce car wrecks Mall / Metro Station to Druid Hill by converting Auchentoroly Park, including the Maryland Zoo in Terrace and Reisterstown Road into Baltimore and recreational facilities neighborhood boulevards safely like ball fields, the disc golf course, accommodating all users. and the Druid Hill Aquatic Center. ▶ Create protected, signalized crosswalks to Druid Hill Park for all side streets. 3 Introduction Maryland Zoo Druid Hill Park Conservatory e Rawlings v Holmes Ave Parks & A People s t h ig e H y Libe rt Westbury Ave Woodbrook Ave Mondawmin Auchentoroly Terrace Metro Station Bryant Ave Woodbrook Ave Mondawmin Gwynns alls Pkwy Mall Whittier Ave Reisterstown Rd Orem Ave Ruskin Ave Edgemont Ave Parkwood Ave Coppin Avalon Ave Douglass Woodbrook Ave State High niversity School ulton Ave The neighborhood identified on maps Association. Gwynns Falls Parkway bisects as “Parkview / Woodbrook” but better the historically walkable neighborhood known as “Auchentoroly Terrace” and and serves as a main connection between “Mondawmin” is framed by Auchentoroly Baltimore’s oldest large urban park, Druid Terrace on the east, Fulton Avenue on Hill Park, and its second largest transit the south, Reisterstown Road on the hub, Mondawmin Mall / Metro Station. west, and Liberty Heights Avenue on the Widening of the surrounding streets to north. The area is served by two active accommodate high-speed car traffic community associations, the Mondawmin has significantly impacted the lives of Neighborhood Improvement Association residents who do not drive. and the New Auchentoroly Terrace 4 From the 1940s through the 1960s, over around Druid Hill Park have some of the protests of the local NAACP and the city’s highest mortality rates of neighborhood associations, city-led, cardiovascular disease and cancer. car-oriented planning deprived local residents of safe and easy access to the These are some of the dangerous recreational, cultural, public health, and conditions that pedestrians, people with economic benefits of Druid Hill Park. disabilities, and residents who rely on Paving the way for white flight, highway transit, bicycling, and e-scooters face: projects cut off working class African American and Jewish neighborhoods ▶ 8-10 lane highways up to 143’ in width from the park. The city’s goal was that hinder park access for people faster commute times that proved to who do not have access to cars. benefit predominantly white suburban residents. Construction of the 1948 Druid ▶ Extra car lanes that induce Hill Expressway and 1963 Jones Falls motorists to drive at dangerous Expressway resulted in the widening of speeds resulting in injury and death Auchentoroly Terrace and Druid Park to motorists and pedestrians. Lake Drive from two lane, park-front ▶ A loss of 16 historic park entrances, residential streets into roaring five-to- leaving West Baltimore residents nine-lane-wide highways equipped with with only a handful of marked only a handful of crosswalks routinely crosswalks to reach the park on foot. ignored by motorists. More than twenty neighborhood side streets once served ▶ No crosswalks to Druid Hill Park as gateways to the park. Now neighbors from smaller side streets. on foot can only get into the park at five traffic signals where they face turning or ▶ Existing crosswalks are unsafe, speeding cars. poorly marked, or not marked at all. ▶ A majority of pedestrian signals do Around Druid Hill Park approximately not provide enough time for people 50% of residents do not use a personal to walk all the way across. car for transportation yet 90% of the public right-of-way is dedicated to ▶ A lack of designated MTA and vehicular traffic. Residents who don’t public school bus stops at key drive rely on public transit, walking, park access and neighborhood biking, rented escooters, and ride sharing intersections. to move around the city. Druid Park Lake Drive and Auchentoroly Terrace are not ▶ Shelters needed at existing safe to use for most residents and make bus stops. it difficult for pedestrians, seniors, and ▶ Lack of protected, connected children to get to Druid Hill Park. “micro-mobility lanes”, also known as bike lanes, for people The prioritization of traffic flow over who rely on wheelchairs, bicycles, neighborhood value and pedestrian safety and escooters. has health and environmental impacts. Baltimore’s asthma hospitalization rates ▶ No transit lines connecting are far higher than the state and national neighborhood residents with average. The Baltimore City Health amenities in Druid Hill Park such as Department’s 2017 Neighborhood Health the pool, playgrounds, basketball Profiles2 shows that the majority working courts, and tennis courts. income, African American communities 5 been constructed. A brief summaries of these plans and their practical impacts can be found in the appendix. In 2017, 7th District Councilman Leon F. Pinkett, III convened the Druid Hill Park Access Stakeholders group, including the Cars driving at speeds above 25 miles-per- New Auchentoroly Terrace Association, hour put pedestrians at risk of significant Mondawmin Neighborhood Improvement injury and death.3 Roadways around Association, Reservoir Hill Improvement Druid Hill Park induce motorists
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