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Agenda Project Overview & Purpose Design Concepts and Options Process & Timeline Question & Answer Project History SN22 Transportation Plan (2010) Identified Patterson as priority connection Washington Avenue


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Agenda

  • Project Overview & Purpose
  • Design Concepts and Options
  • Process & Timeline
  • Question & Answer
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Project History

  • SN22 Transportation Plan (2010)

Identified Patterson as priority connection

  • Washington Avenue Livable Centers Study (2013)
  • Houston Bike Plan (2017)

Lists Patterson as “short-term retrofit”

  • Safer Streets Initiative (2018)

Washington/Patterson intersection studied in recent Road Safety Audit

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Design Concepts & Options

  • Patterson, Feagan, Jackson Hill cross-sections
  • Washington @ Patterson median refuge
  • Parking and movement impacts
  • The more space yielded to pedestrians and bicyclists, the greater

safety benefit

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Neighborhood Bikeway

  • Quiet, low-speed streets
  • Narrow right-of-way
  • Signage, speed cushions, and other bicycle enhancements
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Existing Proposed

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Dedicated On-Street

  • Dedicated lane for bicyclists
  • Minimum right-of-way requirements
  • Can include buffer between bicycles and cars
  • May impact parking
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Option 1 Proposed Existing (40’) Option 2

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Existing (36’) Proposed

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Issues

  • Bridge over IH-10, crossing frontage roads
  • UP Railroad crossing
  • Jackson Hill Bridge entrance
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Washington @ Patterson

  • Median refuge can provide a safe haven to pedestrian and

bicyclists crossing Washington Ave

  • Different options, impacts to auto movements vary
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Process and Timeline

  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Design
  • Conceptual
  • 50%, 90%, 100%
  • Follow-up
  • Construction
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Questions?