Project Description
The purpose of this project is to evaluate improvements to make it easier and safer for people of all ages, abilities, and modes of travel to use Sanger Avenue.
Project Area Map
Project Background
Sanger Avenue, between North Beauregard Street and Van Dorn Street, is a four-lane east-west roadway that provides access to various high-density residential neighborhoods, schools, and bus lines.
There have been over 60 traffic crashes since 2016 on this stretch of Sanger Avenue alone. Of those, over a third resulted in people being injured. Speeding is also common on this corridor, presenting a high risk of injury to people walking, biking, and taking transit.
Safety improvements are being considered for this stretch of Sanger Avenue to improve safety for children and adults walking to the William Ramsay Recreation Center and Ferdinand T. Day Elementary School, protect bus riders boarding/alighting the new West End Transitway, and make it safer for vehicles traveling between North Beauregard Street and Van Dorn Street by decreasing the likelihood of dangerous weaving patterns and angled crashes.
A Safe Routes to School (SRTS) project was recently approved for William Ramsay Elementary, with curb extensions, crossing improvements, and a raised crosswalk coming soon. Multimodal safety improvements to Sanger Avenue are also recommended in the Safe Routes to School Walk Audit for Ferdinand T. Day Elementary.
Sanger Ave will be a key artery of the West End Transitway. Traffic safety improvements are needed to protect riders and bus operators, and also to ensure safe transit operations.
Project Development
Community Engagement
Status: Initiated
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Planning & Concept Design
Status: Initiated
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