A Transportation Plan for the Greenleaf Terrace Neighborhood

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• If the city is not pursuing sidewalk construction, a paint stripe along the roadside to narrow the vehicular roadway and provide a designated area to walk would be a cheaper alternative. • Speeding is an issue that compromises pedestrian safety. Correlate speed limit with the presence of sidewalks to increase walkability and bikeability. • Rose Hill Drive needs new crosswalk • Indicate crosswalks with paint or surface texture. In general there is a need for better maintenance of crosswalks. Use reflective paint to make lines more visible. • Re-evaluate speed limits. Other potential traffic calming measures include speed humps and one-way streets. • Create pedestrian and bicycle connections to McIntire Park in general and from Greenleaf Park following the stream corridor. • Connect Greenleaf Park to McIntire Park through a possible pedestrian bridge over 250. • Downsize Dairy Road and install a better traffic calming design. • Improve the bus system by coordinating the University buses and CTS, placing a bench at each bus stop, combining the School bus and CTS stops and using smaller buses that make more frequent trips and run longer hours.” 12 The 2007 Comprehensive plan identifies a number of general issues city-wide that apply to Greenleaf Terrace, including: • “The capacity of the arterial roadway network is stressed by high usage, resulting in congestion and increased traffic on local streets. • Vehicles are traveling at high speeds on local streets and cutting through neighborhoods rather than using the arterial and collector roadway network in place for this type of travel. • The majority of the roadway network within the City was designed to accommodate vehicular travel and does not adequately address safety and user comfort for pedestrians, bicyclists or citizens with disabilities. • Many residents live within a reasonable walking or biking distance to retail and commercial destinations within the City. However, residents choose to drive 12 2006 City of Charlottesville Barracks/Rugby Neighborhood Plan
ather than bike or walk due to a lack of trails, paths, sidewalks and bike lanes connecting the residential and commercial areas” 13 . In order to deal with the aforementioned issues, the Comprehensive Plan identifies the following local goals: • “Efficiently manage the capacity of the arterial roadway network, relieving congestion and increased traffic on local streets. • Reduce the high vehicle speeds and limit cut-through traffic on local streets as this type of travel is intended for arterial and collector roadway networks. • Increase safer accommodations for pedestrians, bicyclists and citizens with disabilities while within existing roadway network. • Establish connectivity between residences and commercial destinations that are located in close proximity to one another to promote the option of walking and biking rather than driving” 14 . The 2006 Charlottesville Transit Development Plan 15 recommends changes to Charlottesville Transit Service bus route 3B, the route that serves Greenleaf Terrace. The proposed changes include bringing the western reach of the route in from the portion of Rugby Road near the University of Virginia campus to 10 th street, approximately 9 city blocks further east. The change is recommended in part to eliminate duplication in service between CTS and the UVA bus service. This change effectively eliminates Route 3 service to the UVA campus, requiring a route transfer. The recommended alteration to the route was implemented in 2007. 13 2007 City of Charlottesville Comprehensive Plan 14 2007 City of Charlottesville Comprehensive Plan 15 2006 City of Charlottesville Transit Development Plan
Page 1 and 2: A Transportation Plan for the Green
Page 3 and 4: Introduction The following document
Page 5 and 6: Existing Conditions General Neighbo
Page 7 and 8: The table indicates that, while all
Page 9 and 10: Existing Road Infrastructure Map 2,
Page 11 and 12: Map 3: Traffic Signals and Signs 25
Page 13 and 14: Map 4: Bicycle &Pedestrian Accommod
Page 15 and 16: Map 5: Public Transit Service HOLID
Page 17 and 18: Map 6: Average Daily Traffic Volume
Page 19 and 20: A close examination of directional
Page 21 and 22: Traffic Speeds All roads within the
Page 23 and 24: Accident Statistics Traffic acciden
Page 25: Greenleaf Terrace in Existing Trans
Page 29 and 30: Neighborhood Assets & Liabilities A
Page 31 and 32: Goal 3: Vehicles in Greenleaf Terra
Page 33 and 34: sidewalk installation. Installation
Page 35 and 36: The third and final high priority p
Page 37 and 38: Objective Implementation: The City
Page 39 and 40: Map 10: Proposed Bicycle Accommodat
Page 41 and 42: Objective 2.2: Extend bike lanes on
Page 43 and 44: Map 11: Proposed Traffic Calming Me
Page 45 and 46: Traffic Calming Device Implementati
Page 47 and 48: scale lighting should also be used
Page 49 and 50: Goal 4: Public transit is a conveni
Page 51 and 52: population, many Greenleaf Terrace
Page 53 and 54: Action Install traffic circle at De
Page 55 and 56: Appendix A Traffic Count Data Sheet
Page 57 and 58: Nu-Metrics Traffic Analyzer Study C
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Page 72: Appendix B Traffic Calming Analysis
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Figure 2: Criteria for determining
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