The final report for “Greening Jefferson Avenue” (PDF) was recently released. It is a beautiful, entirely unfunded, vision of what Jefferson Avenue could be.
In 2014, the city applied to EPA’s Greening America’s Capitals Program “to create a plan for Jefferson Avenue that would help remedy confusing and unsafe traffic patterns caused by the street’s alignment.” Goals included improving safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users, and also to improve stormwater management and spur economic revitalization.
Earlier in 2015, a team from the EPA met with area stakeholders and residents in developing design options for Jefferson Avenue. The design options include:
- Adding bicycle lanes and narrowing travel lanes.
- Incorporating roundabouts and traffic circles to calm traffic.
- Creating curb extensions and perpendicular crosswalks to shorten crosswalk length.
- Adding rain gardens throughout the corridor to reduce stormwater runoff.
- Reconfiguring some intersections to make pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicle traffic patterns more clear.
- Creating a new gateway to the neighborhood at Jefferson Park.
- Providing porous pavements in parking lanes and some minor streets.
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Those roundabouts they installed are going to kill us all. Pedestrians and bikers will be the first to go…
wheres the monorail?
This is a project that deserves full funding…. https://t.co/BPRA5x8mGy
The rendering also portrays flowerbeds and leading to the roundabouts that would severely improve safety and reduce driver confusion. Also, it shows proper pedestrian crossing.
RT @BikeWalkRVA: This is a project that deserves full funding…. https://t.co/BPRA5x8mGy
RT @BikeWalkRVA: This is a project that deserves full funding…. https://t.co/BPRA5x8mGy
I like the roundabout by Alamo.
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RT @BikeWalkRVA: This is a project that deserves full funding…. https://t.co/BPRA5x8mGy
The new roundabouts were a terrible idea and most people don’t seem to even know how to use them. 4-way stops are much safer.
The biggest problem I’ve had is when you take a right from Clay St. and cross Jefferson traffic to go onto 22nd St. southbound. I’m already starting to hear fender benders.
I love the new roundabouts! Maybe additional signage is needed to remind folks to stay to the right of the circle, even when turning left onto Jefferson.
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I had to come back to this post… First I’ll say I’m a huge fan of roundabouts. But I think the ones they have been putting in have a few issues. They don’t have anything leading traffic into the round about. The one on Jefferson by the Alamo is really confusing for people. I saw someone today go backwards around it. There are no lanes leading into it. The other main issue, usually a problem with the mini ones they have put all over Church Hill, is they are all different. Some have thru traffic that doesn’t stop, some are 4 way yield. They really need to be all the same, probably a 4 way yield. I don’t think it’d have a huge impact on thru traffic, but would be more practical. My 2 cents, sorry about writing a book.
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I love the proposals. Im kinda stuck in the middle about the recent roundabouts…some issues are strictly driver related, some deal with the construction of the roundabouts themselves and some are pedestrian related. Mainly the rounds at 24th and Jefferson and the one at Jefferson-Clay-22nd. Poor markings and once the bushes grow that wont help with the vision. And the drivers just need to be educated on how to drive them and what a bike lane is. And pedestrians…use the crosswalks! DUH!!
Michael T: I agree with you. The round about are not the problem, it’s people jay walking, cyclists not obeying the traffic laws, and drivers speeding or generally not knowing what to do.
No amount of signage is going to correct this bad behavior, only clutter up the round a bouts.