I. About Louisburg, North Carolina

Location of Louisburg, North Carolina

Court House-E. Nash & Main Historic Home-Middle St.

Town Hall-Nash St. Louisburg College-N. Main St.

II. About Bickett Boulevard between Burke & Nash (Existing Conditions)

Louisburg Zoning Map Nov. 2008

Louisburg, North Carolina

Bickett Boulevard (US 401) from Burke Boulevard to Nash StreetAlong 1.37 Mile Segment-Highway Business, Heavy Industrial &

Single Family Residential

Historic District

Bickett Boulevard Study Area

Louisburg, NC-Annual

Average Daily Traffic (AADT) from NCDOT produced by

the Traffic Survey Group,

Franklin County, 2013

Data and Map from NCDOT Safety Planning Group

Crash Data-Individual Crashes 7/1/2009-6/30/2014

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How Bickett Boulevard, Louisburg Compares to Statewide Average Crash Rates:*

North Carolina Statewide Average Bickett Boulevard, Louisburg

Total Crash Rate 300.78 405.14

Fatal Crash Rate 1.19 1.93

Non Fatal Crash Rate 99.21 138.90

Night Crash Rate 55.31 50.16

Wet Crash Rate 48.74 54.02

Severity Index 4.02 3.90

*This portion of Bickett Boulevard (US Route

401) is classified as a 4+ Lanes Continuous Left

Turn Lane in an Urban setting. The statewide

averages are based on a 3 year crash rate

between 2009-2011. The 1.37 mile section of

Bickett Boulevard located between Burke

Boulevard and Nash Street in Louisburg

compares to the 260 miles of roadways in North

Carolina with the same type lane configurations.

Data Supplied by NCDOT Mobility and Safety Division &NCDOT District Engineer 9/18/14

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III. What We Did• All work done as an in-house

collaboration with the Town of Louisburg & NCDOT

• Working Group presentations, research, field trip

• Questionnaire to public• Public Input Meeting• Production of final document

Working GroupHillandale Road Site Visit

with Follow–up at NCDOT District Offices, Durham

September 29th, 2014

From Ian Lockwood, Toole Design Group

From Danny Pleasant, Director, Charlotte DOT

Designated Pedestrian Crossings Needed

Imagine Bickett Boulevard Working Group Mission Statement and Goals:

Mission Statement:To improve safety for all travelling on Bickett Boulevard between Burke Boulevard and Nash Streets while improving the aesthetics, supporting local economic development and allowing for multimodal transportation choices resulting in reduced congestion and minimized crashes.

Goals:• Improve safety through access management by creating medians

allowing for safe left turns and U-turns as well as creating signalized intersections with pedestrian crossings to accommodate vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians

• Stimulate economic development by infilling vacant or underused sites, considering mixed-use development where possible with buildings closer to the street and parking at the rear or side to enhance the pedestrian environment

• Improve the aesthetics along the route with street trees, planted medians, sidewalks, uniform signage, improved lighting and underground utilities while incorporating shared parking lots and creating the best efficiency of driveways

• Incorporate bus routes with shelters, bike routes and sidewalks along Bickett Boulevard to tie in to the existing network

Safe Access is Good for Business, P.12

Access Management:

Hillandale Road - Planted MedianBenefits: Aesthetics, Unified Streetscape

Benefits: Improving Safety

By reducing conflicts, Access Management reduces crashes

From: Access Management, Florida DOT, P.3

Benefits of Improved Access Management

• Improves vehicular safety and access

• More room for landscaping

• Accommodates a unified streetscape

• Presents an opportunity to organize signs

• Allows space for bike routes with improved safety

• Allows for safer pedestrian access

• Provides potential to connect adjacent parking lots, thus increasing the opportunity for patronage of adjacent businesses for multiple and convenient shopping stops

• Preserves the road capacity and improves traffic flow

Side Street and Sharing Access

Shared Residential Access

From: NCDOT, Policy On Street And Driveway Access to North Carolina Highways, July 2003, P.38

Improve Internal Site Design

Conceptual Ideas:

Before:• No sidewalk• No pedestrian crossing• No stop light at Franklin

Plaza• No landscaping

After:• Signalized and marked

pedestrian crossing• Stop light with arms

added at Franklin Plaza

• Sidewalk added• New landscaping

Bickett Blvd. at Franklin Plaza

Conceptual Ideas:

Before:• No Sidewalk• Center turn lane

allows for multiple conflict points

After:• Sidewalk added on

both sides of road• Lane marked for

cyclists• Planted median

with gap allowing for left turns and U-turn

Bickett Blvd. near McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King (around 328-332 S. Bickett)

Bickett and Nash with Improvements

• Stop Light Arms with Overhead Road Signs• Pedestrian Crossing (Timed)• Planted Median with Pedestrian Refuge• Sidewalks on Both sides of Street• Bike Paths• Mixed Use (Businesses/Apartments) Close to Street with

Parking Behind• Pull in for Buses• Buried Power Lines• Parking Behind Buildings• Consolidation of Driveways

Conceptual Ideas:

Bickett and Nash Indicating Possible Improvements

Before:

After:

29Source: NCDOT Congestion Management Group

A type of intersection in which minor cross-street traffic is prohibited from going straight through or left at a divided highway intersection. *

•Minor cross street traffic must turn right, but can then access a U-turn to proceed in the desired direction.

*Other configurations possible based on site specific conditions.

Hillandale Rd., Durham, NC

Areas of Concern Mentioned in Survey:

Some additional Responses to Questions

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Public Input Meeting

IV. What is happening so far and next steps

• Continuation of ongoing CMAQ projects

• NCDOT safety project/discretionary project

• Successful grant application to CTAA Rural Passenger Technical Assistance Program (draft plan in progress with consultant)

• Inclusion of 1.37 mile segment in current state Prioritization Process (P4.0) (The project scores in the low 40’s at the Regional level and gets more KTRPO local points because of the study-is doing better than in P3.0.)

• Possible breaking of 1.37 mile segment down into fragments to see if the individual parts will score better in next Prioritization Process (P5.0)

Signalized and Marked Pedestrian Crossing with Sidewalk Linking to Ongoing CMAQ Project

Kerr-Tar received funding from the Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA) Rural Passenger Technical Assistance Programtowards developing a fixed route transportation service around Louisburg, equivalent to the Roxboro Uptown Shuttle.

Thank You!