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URBANA BICYCLE WAYFINDING PLAN | Introduction f Urb y o an it a CITY OF C URBANA URBANA URBANA BICYCLE Bicycle Bicycle Bicycle 4 min 4 min 4 min Wayfinding Wayfinding Wayfinding WAYFINDING Plan Plan Plan PLAN JULY 2020 This page was purposefully left blank. This report was prepared with funding from the City of Urbana by staff from the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission. f Urb y o an it a CITY OF C URBANA URBANA URBANA BICYCLE Bicycle Bicycle Bicycle 4 min 4 min 4 min Wayfinding Wayfinding Wayfinding WAYFINDING Plan Plan Plan PLAN PLAN FUNDED BY & PREPARED FOR City of Urbana PLAN PREPARED BY The Champaign-Urbana Urbanized Area Transportation Study (CUUATS), a program of: Champaign County Regional Planning Commission 1776 East Washington Street Urbana, Illinois 61802 Tel: (217) 328-3313 Fax: (217) 328-2426 Website: http://www.ccrpc.org All photos belong to CCRPC unless otherwise credited. MAYOR Diane Marlin CITY COUNCIL Maryalice Wu, Ward 1 Eric Jakobsson, Ward 2 Shirese Hursey, Ward 3 Bill Brown, Ward 4 Dennis Roberts, Ward 5 William Colbrook, Ward 6 Jared Miller, Ward 7 BICYCLE & PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMISSION (BPAC) Annie Adams Bill Brown Leonardo Covis Kara Dudek Cynthia Hoyle Audrey Ishii Susan Jones Jeff Marino Sarthak Prasad Nancy Westcott STAFF City of Urbana Craig Shonkwiler, Assistant City Engineer (former) Shannon Beranek, Engineer Champaign County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) Rita Morocoima-Black, Planning & Community Development Director Gabriel Lewis, AICP, Transportation Planner Mariane Shen Yin Lin, Transportation Intern (former) STEERING COMMITTEE Marcus Ricci, AICP, City of Urbana Planning Cynthia Hoyle, FAICP, City of Urbana BPAC Kara Dudek, AICP, Urbana Park District Stacey DeLorenzo, University of Illinois Evan Alvarez, Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District Steve Hankel, Champaign County Bikes TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Plan Foundation 1 1.2 Plan Purpose 1 1.3 Policy Framework 2 1.4 Study Area 2 1.5 Steering Committee 2 1.6 Wayfinding Benefits 2 1.7 Bicycle Wayfinding Principles 4 1.8 Urbana Green Loop 4 2. PEER AREA COMPARISONS 6 2.1 Study Area 6 2.2 Primary Cities & Counties Reviewed 7 2.3 Secondary Cities Considered 12 3. EXISTING SIGNS & DESTINATIONS 26 3.1 Existing Signs 26 3.2 Bicycle Destinations 26 4. PUBLIC INPUT 39 4.1 Input Opportunities 39 4.2 Sign Design Votes 39 4.3 Corridor Naming 43 4.4 Corridor Prioritization 43 4.5 Other Comments 43 5. SIGN DESIGNS & PLACEMENT 44 5.1 Bikeway Designations 44 5.2 Bikeway Naming 44 5.3 Sign Design 45 5.4 Sign Placement 63 5.5 Sign Assembly 67 5.6 Prioritization Criteria 69 6. IMPLEMENTATION 75 6.1 Sign Quantity Estimates 75 6.2 Funding Sources 83 APPENDIX A: PUBLIC INPUT REPORT APPENDIX B: ROUTE SIGN DETAILS This page was purposefully left blank. URBANA BICYCLE WAYFINDING PLAN | Introduction ! ! 1 ! INTRODUCTION ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! N Maple St ! ! ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! W Main St Griggs St ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Oval Allee ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! 6 ! ! ! Locust St 1 2 3 4 5 6 Stoughton St ! ! W Water St 1 ! ! RECOMMENDATIONS ! 0 ! ! ! ! ! N Vine St Vine N ! E Main St ! ! ! N ColerAve ! ! Founder's Park 2 7 8 9 10 11 12 Patterson! Parklet ! Springfield Ave N BuseyAve ! 1.1 PLAN FOUNDATION Ave LincolnN ! ! ! ! Phillips Recreation! Center ! Western Ave ! ! ! ! ! E Elm St ! ! ! ! ! 11.2.33 ILLINOIS STREET CORRIDOR W Elm St Downtown! !Mini! Park ! ! Bardeen Quad Victory! Park ! ! ! ! Vine St Vine Ave ! h St h ! Grove St Grove E Green St! ! ! Wright St Wright ! ! ! ! S W Green! ! ! St! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! S S In 2016, the Urbana City Council approved its ! Birc Urbana's Art in the Park ! ! ! E High St W High St ! ! ! ! ! ! ! E Illinois St ! ! S Lincoln Lincoln S W Illinois St !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! second Urbana Bicycle Master Plan (UBMP) Cedar! Aly ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! E! California Ave ! Hallene! Gateway Plaza W California Ave ! ! ! S Mathews Ave Mathews S ! Ave Johnson ! ! ! ! ! ! ! S Coler Ave Coler S ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! E Oregon St ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! W Oregon St ! S Goodwin Ave Goodwin S ! (Figure 1-1), outlining many recommendations !! U of I Main Quad ! ! ! ! ! W Oregon St ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! St Cedar S Race St Race S ! ! W Nevada St ! E Nevada St S Webber St Webber S ! ! ! !! ! S Broadway Ave Broadway S S Maple St Maple S W Nevada St St Anderson to improve bicycling in Urbana. This plan aims ! ! ! ! St Lynn S ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! W Washington St ! ! ! ! ! Ave abash ! ! S Busey Ave Busey S ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! W ! ! ! ! ! ! ! to enhance safety and improve infrastructure ! ! ! ! Use California Avenue via Urbana Avenue to access points east of Vine Street along! the Illinois Street corridor, since Illinois Street ! ! is brick east of Urbana Avenue. ! ! for current bicyclists, while seeking to increase ! ! ! ! ! ! CALIFORNIA AVENUE ! ! ! ! ! ! the number of bicyclists by targeting casual • Grove Street-Urbana Avenue: Bike Route with wayfinding signage! . ! ! ! • Destinations & Intersecting Bikeways: Anderson Street (EB), Downtown (WB)! ! ! ! ! or less confident riders. Implementing the ! URBANA AVENUE ! ! • California Avenue-Illinois Street: Bike Route with wayfinding signage. ! recommendations of this plan will enhance • Destinations & Intersecting Bikeways: Downtown (NB), Urbana City Building (NB), Anderson! Street (SB) ! ! ! Urbana’s Gold Bicycle Friendly Community status ! ! ! ! while putting it on a path to Platinum (or even ! ! Downtown 0.2 ! ! Lincoln Square 0.3 Diamond) designation. ! ! ! ! ! ! Thirteen major recommendations were ! Figure 162 ! CaliforniaDowntown Avenue ! ! westboundLincoln Square at Maple developed for this plan, and one is to “install Existing View (2007) Future! View Street ! Downtown 0.2 ! Lincoln Square 0.3 ! bikeway and trail wayfinding signs to supplement ! ! ! ! Downtown 0.1 existing and proposed bike route and trail signs ! ! Lincoln Square 0.2 ! ! ! in Urbana.” ! Downtown ! Lincoln Square ! ! ! ! Other major UBMP recommendations that can ! Figure 163 be accomplished in this bicycle wayfinding plan CaliforniaDowntown Avenue 0.1 at Existing View (2007) Future View UrbanaLincoln Avneue Square 0.2 include: 231 Figure 1-1 Urbana Bicycle Master Plan bike 1. Improve safety and continuity of existing wayfinding sign renderings bikeways and routes. 2. Enhance Safe Routes to Schools by installing bike routes near the following schools: Dr. Williams Elementary, Leal Elementary, Thomas Paine Elementary, Yankee Ridge Elementary, Urbana Middle School, and Urbana High School. An investment in sign installation by the City of 3. Establish the Urbana Green Loop trail (See Urbana could see a major increase in bicycling, “Urbana Green Loop”), to connect all of as distance signage will inform people about how Urbana’s parks, in concert with the Urbana close they are to destinations and intersecting Park District Trails Master Plan. bikeways. 4. Install bikeways to improve bike access in low-income neighborhoods, especially in 1.2 PLAN PURPOSE areas where bicycles may be a primary form The City of Urbana Bicycle Wayfinding Plan of transportation for people. intends to facilitate bicycle navigation to riders’ 5. Install bikeways to improve bike access to destinations while conveying the community’s employers, especially major employers. identity and encouraging people to ride. 1 URBANA BICYCLE WAYFINDING PLAN | Introduction 1.3 POLICY FRAMEWORK 1.6 WAYFINDING BENEFITS Developing and implementing the bicycle Following are several benefits of installing wayfinding program is a reflection of several of bicycle wayfinding signage based on theUrban the 2014-2017 Urbana City Council and Mayor Bikeway Design Guide developed by the National Goals when this project began in late 2017. Association of City Transportation Officials The Transportation and Connectivity goal “... (NACTO). encourages the development of multiple modes of transportation and transportation centers, • Familiarizes users with the bicycle network including automobile, bus, pedestrian, bicycle, • Identifies the best routes to destinations train, rapid rail and airplane, which encourage • Overcomes a “barrier to entry” for infrequent convenience, fuel conservation and energy bicyclists efficiency to speed residents between home, work, school, shopping and entertainment • Signage that includes mileage to destinations destinations throughout the city and beyond.” may help minimize the tendency to The Environmental Sustainability goal encourages overestimate the amount of time it takes to making Urbana “more pedestrian and bicycle travel by bicycle friendly.” Finally, the Quality of Life goal • Visually indicates to motorists that they recommends “taking the steps necessary to are driving along a bikeway and should use ensure a high quality of life for its residents.” caution • Passively markets the bicycle network by 1.4 STUDY AREA providing unique and consistent imagery throughout the City of Urbana The study area for this plan includes the greater Urbana area. It is roughly bounded by Olympian These benefits should be particularly attractive Road and Oaks Road on the north, High Cross to the 60% of the population that is “Interested Road/IL 130 on the east, Curtis Road and but Concerned” about bicycling1. This is the Windsor Road on the south, and Wright Street target audience of the UBMP, which aims to and the Canadian National Railroad on the west increase the number of bicyclists in Urbana. (see Map 1-1). It includes
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