Lunch & Learn Event: Charlotte Street Road Diet
Presented by Traffic Planning and Design, Inc. (TPD)
After nearly twenty years of study and analysis, the City of Asheville kicked off the Charlotte Street Road Diet Project in 2018. The project set out to provide multimodal connections and safety improvements to a half-mile section of the corridor that is the spine to an active historical business and residential district. The road diet is a traditional 4-lane to 3-lane conversion with bike lanes and ADA improvements on a vibrant and well-travelled corridor. An accelerated contract pushed the Traffic Planning and Design, Inc (TPD) design team to move from concept to design, and then to construction bidding, in just eight months while navigating complex community engagement with varying stakeholders.
In this session, Christy Staudt, PE and Kristy Carter, AICP will share the following for this corridor improvement project: community engagement; ADA prioritization; project design within an accelerated schedule; and short-term results from an ongoing evaluation study to better understand how the project is meeting stated goals.
Lunch is included in the cost for this event. If you plan to bring your own lunch you can use Promo Code: MYOWNLUNCH for a discounted rate. If you need a vegetarian meal, please send a request to [email protected] by 10 am on July 20th.