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NODE 1 – TIDEWATER TRAIL - SOUTH 78TH STREET CORRIDOR
Figure 7-5 Current Conditions: Tidewater Trail
At Tidewater Trail, the current conditions are typical of the corridor. The majority of the right-of-way has been dedicated to the automobile, while pedestrians and bicyclists use a narrow sidewalk that has no buffer to protect them from flying debris such as pebbles or noise and pollution from the moving traffic of trucks and large vehicles as illustrated in Figure 7-5. Homes here generally front on streets running perpendicular to 78th Street, but more than twenty of the homes front directly on the Street with driveway or sidewalk access. 78 th Street is planned to evolve into a mixed use, pedestrian-oriented street per the Community Plan, but the land use in this area is primarily Residential-9, so an Urban Neighborhood Typology is applied. The recommended plan and section for the corridor is shown in Figures 7-6 and 7-7. The arrangement of the travel lanes, turn lanes, flex zones, and parking lanes, all meet those expectations expressed in the plans as shown below. The repurposed travel lanes accommodate the expected user mix identified in the Urban Neighborhood C4 typology and all the optional and required elements of the typology. With high numbers of expected pedestrian and bicycle users, excess right-of-way is given to sidewalks that are wider than normally called for in the Urban Neighborhood Typology, and on-street parking is provided on one side only. Raised crosswalks (discussed in Chapter Five) are used at intersections to indicate areas where high pedestrian volume is expected. Two additional pedestrian
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