The City of Pensacola has released the Active Transportation Plan (ATP). Though I have just started to review the document, it is impressive and meets its goal of creating “a framework to help maintain the unique historic character of Pensacola while transforming the transportation network to be accessible, connected, comfortable, and safe for people walking, cycling, and using other self-propelled modes of transportation.”
A few interesting facts:
The City of Pensacola contains:
• 420 Total Miles of Roadways
• 53 miles of State Roadways (13% State Roadways)
• 3 Miles of County Roadways (1% County Roadways)
• 330 Miles of City-Maintained Roadways (82% City Roadways)
• 34 Miles of Private Streets (4% Privately Maintained Roadways)
Why this matters: In the last five years, 28 people died (including 10 that were walking or bicycling) and 115 were seriously injured (including 36 that were walking or bicycling) on Pensacola streets. This equates to about six (6) deaths and 23 serious injuries on our streets every year.
Dig Deeper: The ATP goes in-depth into various design elements and gives guidelines for various types of roadways.
On page 68, the authors look at the top 10 high-crash intersections within the City and share which tools for traffic calming and safety can be implemented.
Read ATP.
Gary, wait until they road diet Pace from the foot of the Barrancas bridge and stick a roundabout at Jackson with people trying to turn off one way to Community Health and access Saigon Market at the other. I can assure you the people on the West Side trying to get actually get somewhere don’t want that, either. Sure will choke up traffic good though, in advance of the push of gentrification and development headed for Jackson and the waterfront along Pace.
Glad to see they are caving to a few….so guys like Jared Moore can walk to Baskin Robbins. Geez… I am curious as to the repurposing they are thinking about on Firestone. Its two lane now with what appears to be a parking lane on each side. Those parking lanes are used a lot. Especially by work crews. The people don’t want this, but a man must have his ice cream.
Thanks for highlighting the Active Transportation Plan. Its passage is a historic event for Pensacola that will make our community safer, better, more environmental, more equitable and healthier economically. Now comes the hard work of actually implementing the Plan’s projects and priorities, which will take strong political leadership.