Review Revised Design: Wake Towne Drive
Review Revised Design: Wake Towne Drive
Welcome back! We have heard feedback from your neighborhood on the proposed safety improvement to Wake Towne Drive. We are excited to share the revised design. All feedback was taken into consideration while also using best practices to make sure we provide the safest option for your neighborhood. Please review the final design by 5 PM on October 16.
Why this project?
The City has identified Wake Towne Drive for a traffic calming project, which will improve safety for those driving, walking, and biking in your neighborhood. Our goal is safer streets for all! Your street was identified because:
- There have been two speed-related crashes in the last year.
- Typical driving speeds are 34 MPH (Speed limit is 25 MPH).
We have already shared education materials with neighbors and had one open comment period on proposed safety improvement.
Design
City staff are recommending speed cushions to slow speeding on Wake Towne Drive. These devices would be placed every 500 feet along Wake Towne Drive from Wake Forest Road to The End.
Below is a summary of the feedback gathered when the neighborhood was asked to react to the proposed design.
What We Heard from the Community
- The neighborhood conversation and ballot question showed the neighborhood supported Speed Cushions.
- There were concerns about the final location on the dead end side of the street and wanting to remove until the street is extended.
- Staff reviewed this request and is recommending that it remains. Traffic calming projects in Raleigh focus on resolving issues on a street and typically do not phase implementation. The inclusion of this device is spaced appropriately so that when the street is extended, the entire street will remain effectively calmed. This device is preparing this street for the future.
- There was a desire to relocate the first treatment from where it is shown and move it closer to the Wake Forest Rd intersection.
- Staff reviewed this request and is recommending against relocation of this device because of the hill and sight distance concerns. In early iterations of this project proposal, the treatment was shown in the location requested, but after meeting with the design team in the field to review it was identified as a non-viable location and was relocated to the current location.
This map shows the chosen locations of the devices. You can also view a larger PDF of this map.
Purple font will signify plan alterations
