How-To Guide to Street, Sidewalk and Bike Improvements

HOW-TO GUIDE TO STREET, SIDEWALK & BIKE IMPROVEMENTS CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA

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STREETS & SIDEWALKS Dwayne Cooper, City Engineer | [email protected] HOW-TO GUIDE TO STREET, SIDEWALK & BIKE IMPROVEMENTS CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA

How does the City prioritize sidewalk installation? CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA SIDEWALKS Secondary assessment for for assessment Secondary way, of right constructability, etc. All All streets without sidewalks are ranked NSTEP (Neighborhood Sidewalk Expansion Targeted Program) • • • CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA SIDEWALK EVALUATION FORM EVALUATION SIDEWALK transportation type occupancy Building connectivitySystem facilities, public type Street public facilities, medical Distance from schools, schools, from Distance • • • • Criteria includes:Criteria CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA Willard Street Willard Clark Street – – SIDEWALK PROJECTS SIDEWALK Visit website at www.greenvillesc.gov/NSTEP Some sidewalk projects get SCDOT funding All newAll development requires sidewalk NSTEP Round 15 NSTEP Round 16 • • UPCOMING: • • • HOW-TO GUIDE TO STREET, SIDEWALK & BIKE IMPROVEMENTS CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA

How does the City prioritize street resurfacing? CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA yrs STREET PAVEMENT STREET Condition, Condition, street classification, andvolume trafficto used determine when itwill be resurfaced All streetsassessed every 5 Streets are given a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) score and accordingconditionranked to • • • CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA mill and fillmill and – Rejuvenator place Hot in recycling Maintenancecourse • • • STREET PAVEMENT OPTIONSSTREET PAVEMENT For more information, visit www.greenvillesc.gov/streets Fulldepth reclamation Fulldepth patching Preservationmethods Resurfacing • • • • • HOW-TO GUIDE TO STREET, SIDEWALK & BIKE IMPROVEMENTS

How do I get a pothole fixed? CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA

How do I request to have a street resurfaced?

How do I report overgrown landscaping and shrubs that extend into the sidewalk? CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA

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TRAFFIC CALMING HOW-TO Allen Reid, Traffic Engineer | [email protected] CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA most driven - TRAFFICCALMING approved by by residents approved Speed are humps device popular Initiated by a resident by Initiated and developed is Plan Neighborhood process • • • • CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA 4360 467- [email protected] Call: 864- Email: • • visit information, more For www.greenvillesc.gov/trafficcalming To request traffica To calming application: traffic counts - online/paper 70% to 70%to pass – – off Meeting off -

Kick Collection Data Plan Development Voting Installation Request Application Petition TRAFFICCALMING

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How can we get a streetlight in our neighborhood? CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA CARE (2273) - [email protected]

STREET LIGHTING

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• • Streetlight considerations:Streetlight • • To request street lighting or to have a streetlight repaired: a streetlight have to or lighting street request To CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA case - by - 4360 467- OTHER FAQs Evaluated with an engineering withengineering an Evaluated study Evaluated on a case on based basis, need • • Can we get crosswalks? Canget we Engineering Traffic Contact at864- Canwe change the speed limit? CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA 5307

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http://greenvillesc.gov/addresslocator ContactEnergyat Duke 1 What about streetlighting outside the city? Check to yourif see location is within city limits: https://www.greenvillecounty.org/PublicWorks/Traffic.aspx Greenville County has its own traffic calming program: calmingtraffic its own County has Greenville What about trafficcalming outside the city? CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA

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BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE Calin Owens, Mobility Coordinator | [email protected] CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA BIKE LANES BIKE 3 SHARROWS 2

BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE TYPES BIKE ROUTES BIKE 1 Less separation between cyclists and vehicles cyclists between separation Less CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA SHARED USE PATHS 6 WAY BIKE LANES BIKE WAY - TWO 5 BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE TYPES

PROTECTED BIKE LANES BIKE PROTECTED 4 More separation between cyclists and vehicles cyclists between separation More CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA $ Funded Concept Refined Engineering + Design Design + Engineering 5 4 $ Referenced Permits Obtained Master Plans Cross 6 3 $ $ Feasibility Assessed Feasibility Construction Funded 7 2 $ TYPICAL PROJECT FLOW Open Open to Public Need Identified 8 1 CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA TYPICAL SIDEWALK TYPICAL SHARED TYPICAL SHARED USE PATH 15’ wide - 8’ wide - SIDEWALK vs. SHARED USE PATH vs.USE SHARED SIDEWALK Designeduse all for types A ‘roadway’ for humans Typically 10’ Typically Typically adjacent toroadway Typically 4’ Typically Designed pedestrians for on ride bikes to Illegal • • SHARED USE PATHS ARE: USESHARED PATHS • • • • • SIDEWALKS ARE: SIDEWALKS CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA or a named trail a named or Nature Preserve* Conestee Begins near Swamp Rabbit Café, connecting toward North area* Main North toward connecting Café, Rabbit Swamp near Begins end dead and eventually segment on trail begin a named that segments Trail to themselves back loop and trail on a named begin that segments Trail Main spine of trail, connecting Travelers Rest to Cleveland Park to Cleveland Rest Travelers connecting of spine Main trail, to connecting Park, in Begins Cleveland SWAMP RABBIT TRAILSWAMP

Spur Lines Spur Loops Spur Orange Line Orange Blue Line Blue Green Line Owned + maintained by the jurisdiction in which resides which in it by the jurisdiction maintained Owned + Swamp Rabbit Trail is the name of the network, not an individual trail segment trail not individual an name of network, the is the Trail Rabbit Swamp

• • HOW-TO GUIDE TO STREET, SIDEWALK & BIKE IMPROVEMENTS CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA How does the City decide where to put protected bike lanes? CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA 1 2 6’ Bike Lane Bike 6’ Zone Min.6’ Pedestrian 8’ Parallel Parking (if applicable) (if Parking Parallel 8’ 3’ Min Protected Zone 11’ LaneTravel Space Determines Viability Determines Space PROTECTED BIKE LANES BIKE PROTECTED HOW-TO GUIDE TO STREET, SIDEWALK & BIKE IMPROVEMENTS CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA

Can the City install a bike lane on ______Street? CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA Buncombe Road Road Buncombe Inquiry unknown No 30 mph + SRT, neighborhoods, Unity Park Unity neighborhoods, SRT, Mixed, but Mixed, SCDOT mostly Discuss project with SCDOT + Greenville County + Greenville SCDOT with project Discuss Only25% of corridor – Approximately 40’

BIKE LANE CRITERIA

Road ownership? Road connections? Possible in plan? Identified master Road width? Road Existing speed + traffic? Located in city?

• • • • • • QUICK LOOK Recommendation due to jurisdiction, road ownership, and lack of master plan plan recommendations. of and lack master ownership, road jurisdiction, to due Additional study is needed, but this project would be difficult for the City to prioritize prioritize to City the for difficult be would but project is this needed, study Additional CONCEPTUAL PROJECT ASSESSMENT

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TO GUIDETO TO STREET, - HOW SIDEWALK &SIDEWALK BIKE IMPROVEMENTS

Cleveland Park? Cleveland

Swamp Rabbit Trail from Trail Rabbit Swamp Will Will the Citybe expanding the CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA CLEVELAND PARK CONNECTOR PARK CLEVELAND ICAR, currently planned for December 2022. 2022. December for planned currently ICAR, - PROJECT TIMELINE in documents progress Construction to Extension Laurens SRT with opening Planned CU PROJECT FUNDING PROJECT $800,000+ Greenways Fund +allocated from Trails PROJECT SCOPE PROJECT Extension SRT Road the to Laurens Park Cleveland within SRT existing Connect Project CITY OF GREENVILLE • SOUTH CAROLINA

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