GDOT Annual Report 2019

B I K E S & P E D E S T R I A N S

• Lees Chapel Road fromYanceyville Street to Brightwood School Road • West Friendly Avenue from College Road to West Market Street, • New Garden Road from Ballinger Road to Guida Drive • Lindsay Street from Murrow Boulevard to Bessemer Avenue and • Holden Road from Spring Garden to Gate City. The Horse Pen Creek Road widening and the improvements to the College / Guilford College Road and Market Street intersection that are currently under construction will add an additional six miles of new sidewalks. The sidewalk construction program emphasizes connecting people to transit, schools, higher education, employment, parks, high density residential areas, and other destinations. Improving safety, accessibility, and mobility are key considerations, as is responding to community priorities and neighborhood sidewalk requests. Greenway Construction GDOT is also working in partnership with Engineering and Inspections and Parks and Recreation on planning and implementing greenway projects across the community. The current push is to complete the Downtown Greenway. Recently completed sections include 1B and 1C from Elm-Eugene Street across Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to Gate City Boulevard. Work is under way to complete section 3C Smith Street from Prescott Street to Spring Street and Phase 2 along Murrow Boulevard and Fisher Avenue from Gate City Boulevard to Greene Street.

Yadkin Greenway extension to Markland Drive. In the meantime, construction will begin in late 2019 on a related project to upgrade sidewalks on Hill Street to full greenway width to connect the Latham Park and Lake Daniel greenways with the Atlantic and Yadkin and Downtown greenways. Assessing Greenways and Sidewalk Conditions In 2018 GDOT staf collected feld data and created computer mapping and a database inventory of conditions and features along the City’s greenway system. This was the frst such efort to comprehensively assess greenway conditions in the city. The project collected information on pavement conditions and whether there were signs, bridges, lighting, benches, curb ramps at intersections, and more. This data allows the City to pinpoint and prioritize sections that are in need of repair. Based on this information, Parks and Recreation has already funded some of the priority repairs, and Guilford County has made much-needed Bicentennial Greenway repairs between Battleground Avenue and Old Battleground Road. GDOT is working with Engineering and Inspections and Parks and Recreation to develop design plans for greenway repaving, the replacement of bridges, and the replacement or supplementing of existing lighting, amenities and features at other priority greenway locations. Projects in development include reconstruction of the Latham Park Greenway between Hill Street and Wendover Avenue, Lake Daniel Greenway from Friendly Avenue to Elam Avenue, and the Atlantic and Yadkin Greenway from Lake Brandt Road to BurMil Park. In 2018-2019 GDOT also completed a similar data collection process for sidewalk conditions. This was a mammoth undertaking given the current sidewalk network is over 530 miles long. The goal is to enable a comprehensive and prioritized plan for repairs and upgrades. GDOT and Field Operations will study the data and use it as a basis for future repair contracts. This data also enabled the City to complete a federally- mandated update to the its Americans with Disabilities Act Transition Plan by the deadline of June 30.

Planning continues for the future construction of the Downtown Greenway Phase 4 and the Atlantic and

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