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Project Purpose

Provide a diverse arterial that will improve the quality

• f life for all stakeholders; residents, business owners,

bicyclists, pedestrians, motorists and all others.

• Improve functionality and flow for all users
• Upgrade traffic signals
• Redesign curb cuts to meet ADA requirements
• Install amenities such as plants, shrubs, benches and trash

receptacles, bus shelters and trees to enhance the users

• verall experience
• Improve subsurface utilities as necessary so new roadway will

not need to be excavated for utility repairs

Beacon Street Users

Automobiles: 12,000 vehicles per day, 900 vehicles per hour at peak hour Bicycles: No daily total, 300 bicycles per hour at peak hour (the Inman Square area ranks first

• n MassDOT’s list of Top Bicycle Crash

Clusters) Pedestrians: No daily total, approximately 200 pedestrians per hour at peak hour

Existing Conditions

Existing Conditions

Proposed Conditions

Parking information

Beacon Street currently: 212 legal spaces

• Observed overnight parking 84 cars
• Peak demand noon to 2pm: 121 cars
• Version 1: maintained 101 spaces
• Version 2: maintained 117 spaces
• Version 3: added 6 more spaces
• Total spaces on street: 123
• Off‐street parking in negotiation: 35
• Additional potential off site: 25
• Total with full off‐street: 183
• 212‐ 183= 29 space loss, 14%
• 64 spaces (33%) over peak demand

Parking reduction: Was >100 Now <30

Whose parking?

• Not all parking is equal:

resident and customer parking should be preserved.

• All day “storage” parking is

more optional and takes up spaces that could go to customers and residents.

• How to regulate parking for

positive effect? Regulatory improvements: Better regulatory enforcement would improve options for residents and businesses:

• Better enforcement of 2

hour limit?

• Add meters?
• Local resident zone?

Beacon Street at Oxford

Beacon Street at Oxford Slow the” right hook” onto Oxford. Hold onto as many parking spaces as possible Move crosswalk

Beacon at Star Market

Beacon Street at Sacramento: Move crosswalk back to O’Sullivan’s Raise crosswalks at side streets – (will try to get DOT approval) Improve connection under tracks Improve streetscape

Beacon Street at Washington

Beacon at Washington: Improved continuity of crosswalk Improved bike track to lane transition Sidewalk bump out at Dali.

Revision to Beacon/Washington intersection

Beacon at Forest St

Proposed Conditions

Proposed Conditions