Corridor 6: Pennsylvania Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue runs east to west between S Main Street and 8 th Avenue. It is on the Pedestrian HIN and Motor Vehicle HIN. Context Pennsylvania Avenue functions as a minor arterial with mostly commercial use s. There is a large medical campus that includes Cook Children’s Medical Center and Harris Methodist Hospital at the corridor’s western end. The roadway consists of three to five lanes with marked on -street parking at the eastern end. The corridor is a designated bike route and t here are directional bike lanes present for much of its length , though these are intermittent . There are continuous sidewalks present on both sides of the road. A Trinity Metro bus route runs on this corridor. The corridor is approximately 1.04 miles in length. The speed limit is 35 mph. The typical pavement width ranges from 50 to 60 feet, while the right -of- way width is approximately 80 to 84 feet. The Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) for this corridor is 12 , 250 , according to the 2023 NCTCOG Travel Demand Model. Crash History A crash data analysis was performed for the Pennsylvania Avenue corridor to understand the contributing factors and identify focus areas for countermeasures. From 2019 to 2023, 124 total crashes occurred on Pennsylvania Avenue between S Main Street and 8 th Avenue. Forty -eight percent of the crashes occurred at intersections, making both intersection -related recommendations and corridor - focused recommendations focuses of this evaluation. Four crashes involved a pedestrian, two of which occurred at S Jennings Street when vehicles were turning left. Overall, there were no fatal crashes, there were four severe injury crashes, and 24 crashes that resulted in in minor injuries. Figure 16 shows the spatial distribution of crashes in the Pennsylvania Avenue corridor. Table 77 shows the summary of the crash data by collision manner for the Pennsylvania Avenue corridor. Table 78 shows the top five contributing factors as noted in the crash reports on Pennsylvania Avenue. Tables 79 summarizes the KSI crashes ( four) that occurred on this corridor.
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