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172 Avenue NE
Traffic Calming Project
No. 101183
Construction of the
172 Avenue NE
Traffic Calming Project No. 101183 begins the week of
September 15. (Click on the link provided to see the
complete timetable.) This project constructs some of the
features that were identified in the City Council approved
preferred design concept for the 172 Avenue NE corridor.
Other traffic calming, safety, and road design elements will
be constructed later - some by the City of Redmond and
others by private developers. The goal of the project
is to create future traffic conditions that support
controlled vehicular speeds along the corridor, discourage
regional through traffic, and protect the character of this
North Redmond neighborhood.
The link provided will allow you to view the
July 15
City Council meeting Award of Bid memo and the project
vicinity map.
The work to be performed under this contract shall
include the construction of traffic calming improvements on
172 Avenue NE between NE 111 and NE 122 Street and on NE 111
Street approximately 300 feet west of 172 Avenue NE.
Specific traffic calming improvements are listed below.
Specific improvements by the City that will be
implemented on 172 Avenue NE include:
- half-street speed humps adjacent to existing medians on
NE 111 Street near 172 Avenue NE
- curb extensions and landscaped medians on the south and
east legs at the intersection of 172 Avenue NE and NE 111
Street
- a raised crosswalk at the Puget Sound Energy trail
- five speed cushions at selected locations along the
corridor
- a landscaped median on the west leg of NE 115 Street
- curb extensions at NE 119 Street, NE 121 Street, and NE
122 Street
- pavement markings and striping to narrow the vehicle
lanes, to add on-street bicycle lanes from NE 111 to NE 116
Street, and to define zones of on-street parking from NE 112
to NE 116 Street
Features that the City will also be responsible for, but
that are NOT part of the present traffic calming project
include:
- a roundabout
with marked crosswalks at the intersection of NE 116 Street
and 172 Avenue NE (tentatively planned for construction in
2010, this project is currently in design)
- opening the extension of 172 Avenue NE to all traffic no
later than 2016
- traffic calming from NE 124 to NE 128 Street at the time
of the extension opening to maintain residential speeds
- full City street improvements from NE 124 to NE 128
Street following possible annexation
Future improvements along the corridor that are not part of
the City's current traffic calming efforts, but that will be
funded by future private development include:
- on-going developer frontage improvements on 172 Avenue
NE and NE 122 Street which implement the corridor study
preferred alternative including traffic circles at NE
112 Street, NE 117 Way, NE 122 Street, and NE 123 Street
- on-going developer construction of the 172 Avenue NE
extension for emergency vehicles and pedestrian access
- a traffic signal at the intersection of NE 124 Street
and 162 Avenue NE (planned for 2011, provided that signal
warrants are met in 2010)
- full street improvements on the extension of 172 Avenue
NE (with interim restriction of through traffic to emergency
vehicles and non-motorized traffic)
- incremental construction of traffic calming and street
design on both corridors as development occurs
This page was last reviewed on September 15, 2008. |
