A Complete Streets Approach to Shellard Lane Reconstruction - City of Brantford

The Shellard Lane corridor is an important arterial roadway link in the City of Brantford. The road provides an east-west connection from the Brantford West City Limits to Colborne Street West, providing access to the Shellard Lane Neighbourhood. The need and justification for improvements to the Shellard Lane corridor were established in the Brantford Transportation Master Plan (February 2007). The City of Brantford’s Master Plan includes a recommendation to incorporate a Complete Streets approach to road reconstruction. This project provided several valuable lessons learned related to active transportation and safety. This project included several raised median planters, installed to enhance aesthetics and to provide traffic calming. In designing raised planters careful attention must be paid to potential obstruction of sight distance for turning vehicles. On this project a late change was required to one planter design to provide adequate decision sight distance for the design speed. A further lesson learned related to the median fencing provided to prevent student pedestrian crossings. Some nimble students took the fencing to be a personal challenge – scaling the fencing in spite of the obstacle imposed.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

  401-1111 Prince of Wales Drive
  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada 
• Authors:
  • Sinke, D
  • Di Pietro, D
• Conference:
  • TAC 2015: Getting You There Safely - 2015 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada // ATC: Destination sécurité routière - 2015 Congrès et Exposition de l'Association des transports du Canada
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: 1 PDF file, 1.5 MB, 20p.
• Monograph Title: TAC 2015: Getting You There Safely - 2015 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada // ATC: Destination sécurité routière - 2015 Congrès et Exposition de l'Association des transports du Canada

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Automobiles; Bicycles; Case studies; Conferences; Layout; Planning; Traffic restraint; Transportation modes; Urban areas; Walking
• Uncontrolled Terms: Selection
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 1211: Bicycle; 8018: Canada; 1243: Car; 8531: Case study; 8525: Conference; 2885: Layout; 2748: Main road; 143: Planning; 9072: Selection; 633: Traffic restraint; 1145: Transport mode; 313: Urban area; 758: Walking
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01591583
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Feb 26 2016 10:44AM