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MOBILITY LIVE DATA, INVENTORY, AND ANALYSIS WORK PLAY GROW Comprehensive Plan | 2019 MOBILITY ELEMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction_________________________________________________________________________ MBL DIA - 1 Existing Conditions __________________________________________________________________ MBL DIA - 1 Complete Streets in Delray Beach ____________________________________________________ MBL DIA - 1 Roadways_ _________________________________________________________________________ MBL DIA - 2 Level of Service _____________________________________________________________________ MBL DIA - 6 Alternative Modes of Transportation _________________________________________________ MBL DIA - 11 Trends and Challenges ______________________________________________________________ MBL DIA - 13 2024 Conditions _____________________________________________________________________ MBL DIA - 14 2040 Conditions _____________________________________________________________________ MBL DIA - 17 TABLES Table MBL-A Palm Beach County and Delray Beach Thoroughfare Roadways ___________ MBL DIA - 4 Table MBL-B Roadways Level of Service Thresholds ____________________________________ MBL DIA - 6 Table MBL-C Generalized Peak Hour Directional Volumes for Roadways _________________ MBL DIA - 7 Table MBL-D Existing (2018) Daily Roadways Level of Service ____________________________ MBL DIA - 8 Table MBL-E Existing (2018) Peak Hour Peak Direction Roadway Level of Service _________ MBL DIA - 10 Table MBL-F Journey to Work Data – Delray Beach and Surrounding Jurisdictions ________ MBL DIA - 12 Table MBL-G Palm Tran currently serves Delray Beach with Seven Routes ________________ MBL DIA - 13 Table MBL-H 2024 Roadway Level of Service ___________________________________________ MBL DIA - 16 Table MBL-I 2040 Roadway Level of Service ___________________________________________ MBL DIA - 20 REFERENCED MAPS Roadway Connectivity______________________________________________________________ DIA-10 Existing Roadway Laneage___________________________________________________________ AD-6 MBL DIA | i MOBILITY ELEMENT Functional Classification & Maintenance Responsibility_________________________________ AD-7 2018 Daily Level of Service____________________________________________________________ DIA-8 2018 Peak Level of Service___________________________________________________________ DIA-9 2024 Daily Level of Service____________________________________________________________ DIA-11 2024 Peak Level of Service___________________________________________________________ DIA-12 Bicycle Network_____________________________________________________________________ AD-8 Pedestrian Network__________________________________________________________________ AD-9 Existing Transit and Future Transit Opportunities_________________________________________ AD-10 Downtown Parking__________________________________________________________________ DIA-15 Transportation Concurrency Exception Area (TCEA)___________________________________ AD-11 Long Range Laneage as anticipated in the TPA’s Plan_________________________________ DIA-13 2040 Daily Level of Service____________________________________________________________ DIA-14 Evacuation Routes___________________________________________________________________ AD-12 Automobile-Only Crashes____________________________________________________________ DIA-16 Bicycle-Involved Crashes_____________________________________________________________ DIA-17 Pedestrian-Involved Crashes_________________________________________________________ DIA-18 MBL DIA | ii MOBILITY ELEMENT INTRODUCTION City of Delray Beach Complete Streets Policy This document provides the relevant data, The City adopted a Complete Streets Policy inventory and analysis of transportation conditions (GA-50), effective November 1, 2016. in support of the City’s Mobility Element of their Complete Streets will “enhance Delray Beach’s Comprehensive Plan, as described in Florida quality of life over the long-term by advancing Statutes (FS) 163.3177(1)(f). This information was mobility, economically-sound compact and considered in developing the Goals, Objectives connected development patterns, public and Policies in the City’s Mobility Element. health and safety, livability, environmental protection and enhancement, sustainability, EXISTING CONDITIONS neighborhood equitability, affordability, To effectively guide and direct future economic activity, climate resiliency, and transportation plans within Delray Beach, a clear excellence in urban design and community understanding of existing transportation conditions character while taking into consideration is necessary. This section examines the existing context-sensitive design.” transportation conditions, including an inventory of complete streets, bicycle facilities, transit service, The eight Complete Streets principles observed functional classification, jurisdiction and traffic by the City are: counts. This information was used to identify existing levels of service for the roadways. Complete Streets serve all users and modes. COMPLETE STREETS IN DELRAY BEACH Complete streets are streets that are meant for Complete Streets require connected everyone. These streets are designed to travel networks. accommodate all users of the roadway: Complete Streets are beautiful, pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders. interesting and comfortable places for No one specific characteristic defines a complete people. street because each is unique and built to respond to the needs of the surrounding area and Complete Streets require best-practice community. Some common elements of a design criteria and context-sensitive complete street in a downtown area may include approaches. wide sidewalks (with lighting), bike lanes or Complete Streets protect Delray sharrows, public transportation shelters, pedestrian Beach’s environment and promote refuge islands, bulb-outs, on-street parking, sustainability. buildings positioned to frame the street, crosswalk signage, and formal landscaping designs that Complete Streets are the work of all shade pedestrians. Complete streets in residential City Departments. neighborhoods provide sidewalks, on-street bike Complete Streets include all roadways lanes, multi-use paths or trails, formal or informal the city’sand main all projectseast-west and thoroughfare phrases. to the landscaping, and may incorporate traffic calming recreational opportunities at the beach. In the elements, such as landscape islands or bulb outs, downtown Complete area, Atlantic Streets requireAvenue appropriate is a two-lane to maintain appropriate neighborhood speeds. street withperformance sidewalks measures. and other pedestrian amenities. On street parking, the near-constant While complete streets can be thought of as pedestrian activity, and sidewalk dining results in something new, Delray Beach has many examples slow speeds on Atlantic Avenue. Local transit of complete streets already in place. The following serves the length of the street, providing access to are examples of complete streets in Delray Beach: Palm Tran and the Tri-Rail station with its associated multimodal options, as well as to downtown Atlantic Avenue businesses and workplaces, as well as the Atlantic Avenue is synonymous with Delray Beach. recreational opportunities at the beach. It should It is the heart of downtown and provides vehicular be noted that Atlantic Avenue was not always a and pedestrian access to a host of retail and two-lane street with on-street parking and restaurant establishments. Atlantic Avenue is also pedestrian amenities; historically, Atlantic Avenue MBL DIA | 1 MOBILITY ELEMENT was a four-lane street with narrow sidewalks. a more inviting environment for bicyclists, the City Delray Beach decided to intentionally narrow the has implemented colored bicycle lanes between street in the 1980’s, to provide on-street parking, George Bush Boulevard and NE 4th Street. enhance pedestrian amenities, and preserve the Landscape islands have also been added along street from future widening. Atlantic Avenue in the the street to provide a more inviting pedestrian downtown area successfully meets the needs of experience and to promote slower vehicular multiple users of this roadway. speeds. 5th Avenue / 6th Avenue Eastern Delray Beach The one-way pair of 5th Avenue and 6th Avenue, The residential areas of Delray Beach located east which also serve as US 1 through the city, was of Interstate 95 are almost exclusively served by a recently rebuilt as complete streets. Previously, the gridded network of two-lane streets. These streets provided three vehicular lanes in each residential streets meet the transportation needs of direction, with sidewalks and no specific bike automobiles, cyclists, and pedestrians. The typical facilities. The streets were redesigned to provide cross section of one of these residential streets is two vehicular lanes in each direction and added two vehicular travel lanes with sidewalks on both on-street parking and bike lanes, as well as sides, separated by a swale. The presence of additional landscaping and pedestrian amenities, driveway connections and the nature of the such as benches and decorative street lighting. gridded network encourages lower vehicular speeds, creating an environment that Delray Beach temporarily tested the lane accommodates bicyclists in the street network. reduction prior to the ultimate implementation. By collecting speed, volume, and crash data prior to Gridded Connectivity