Reviewed by: Amelia Pilgrim
Governors Drive traffic study approved by City Council
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If you ask Huntsvillians what their biggest concern is regarding the city’s exponential growth in the last decade, traffic comes up more often than not. Specifically, Governors Drive is mentioned in that conversation more than any road in the city.
Well, The Huntsville City Council has apparently heard the pleas for solutions because it approved a study on Governors Drive traffic at Thursday’s meeting.
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Traffic study on Governors Drive
The City Council approved a new contract with Alta Planning + Design for the Governors Drive Corridor Study + Medical District Safety Action Plan.
The study will begin later this spring.
The project is part of the federal “Safe Streets for All” (SS4A) Planning grant. The city has been awarded similar grants for the Pedestrian Access & Redevelopment Corridor (PARC) project as well as for multimodal improvements on Holmes Avenue.
The SS4A grant is for $640,000 with the city providing $160,000 in matching funds.
The study area is an 8.85-mile stretch along Governors Drive from 14th Street on the west end to Caldwell Lane in the Big Cove area with an emphasis on a one-square-mile area in the Medical District that includes the Huntsville Hospital campus.
The project goals are to improve safety and accessibility of the city’s medical corridor and prevention of fatal and serious injuries in automobile crashes as part of Huntsville’s Vision Zero initiative. Keeping traffic moving effectively and safely for all modes of transportation is another objective.
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