REQUEST FOR DECISION
DATE: September 27, 2017 Report No. EPW-17-049
TO: Laurie Hurst, Chief Administrative Officer
FROM: Jeff Miller, Director of Engineering and Public Works
SUBJECT:
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Determination of locations and priority for crosswalks along the Esquimalt Road Corridor between Admirals Road and Fernhill Road
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
That Council directs Staff to undertake the upgrade of the Renaissance and Fraser Street crosswalks within the current project budget.
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RELEVANT POLICY:
Not applicable
STRATEGIC RELEVANCE:
Well Managed and Maintained Infrastructure - Identify infrastructure repair and proactively plan for replacement needs.
Healthy and Liveable Community - Ensure multi modal strategies consider and reflect business and residential growth and development.
BACKGROUND:
One of the capital projects contained within the 2017-2021 Financial Plan was a request for $110,000 to upgrade the Renaissance crosswalk to an overhead pedestrian controlled crosswalk. This crosswalk would be located midblock between Fraser Street and Fernhill Road in the 1100 block (the Renaissance).
The current types of crosswalks and locations along this stretch of Esquimalt Road are:
* Signalized intersection at Admirals Road
* Uncontrolled crosswalk at Park Place
* Uncontrolled crosswalk at Fraser Street
* Uncontrolled crosswalk at the Renaissance
* Pedestrian controlled crossing at Fernhill Road
A study was undertaken to review all potential and existing crosswalk locations from Admirals Road to Fernhill Road. The intent of the study was to review the usage of the existing crosswalks and potential locations of future crosswalks within this segment of the Esquimalt Road corridor. Information on current usage was gathered by user counts and ICBC accident data. A summary of this data is located in Attachment 1.
Based on the study, the existing crosswalks were rated in usage. Fraser Street is the busiest followed by Park Place and the...
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