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Title: RHODE ISLAND AVENUE: MOUNT RAINIER, MARYLAND
Accession Number: 00977180
Record Type: Component
Availability: N/AFind a library where document is available Abstract: U.S. Route 1 (Rhode Island Avenue) split the commercial town center of Mount Rainier with a six-legged intersection and four lanes of traffic with an average daily traffic of 21,000. This division created numerous transportation and urban design problems that hindered commercial revitalization in the heart of the community. The basic issues were pedestrian safety, environmental enhancement, the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority bus turnaround area (with 8 routes and 1,352 passengers daily), storm drainage inadequacy, the lack of a clean, safe, and welcoming mixed-use town center, and vehicular and bicycle safety. This project replaced the six-legged intersection and four lanes of cars rushing through two blocks of liquor stores and abandoned buildings with a simple traffic roundabout, landscaped plazas, pedestrian lighting, easy pedestrian crossings, bus shelters built on early 20th-century designs, new business, and with public art including two blue-glass sculptures that will be lighted at night at opposite ends of the roundabout and bas relief sculptures of some of the diverse faces that make up the community of Mount Rainier. A wide range of context-sensitive design issues was addressed in the design and development of this project including addressing scenic values, aesthetics, historic issues, environmental concerns, and multimodal needs.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research E-Circular E-C067, Context-Sensitive Design Around the Country: Some Examples. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
Report/Paper Numbers: E-C067
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Oldham, S GVaughan, JPagination: p. 15-19
Publication Date: 2004-7
Serial: Features: Photos
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TRT Terms:
Aesthetics; Art; Bicycles; Bus stop shelters; Businesses; Central business districts; Context sensitive design; Crosswalks; Drainage; Environmental design; Environmental impacts; Historic preservation; Landscaping; Lighting; Multimodal transportation; Pedestrian safety; Roundabouts; Small towns; Traffic safety; Urban renewal
Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; History; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Aug 20 2004 12:00AM
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