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The Williamsburg Civic Association
Arlington, Virginia 22207
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About Williamsburg Civic Association
Funding Sources
Conservation Plan
Little Falls Project
Minor Hill
Williamsburg Boulevard NC Project
Sycamore NC Project
Neighborhood Signs
Zoning & Infill
Traffic Calming
  List of Traffic Calming Recommendations in the WCA Conservation Plan
  Traffic Calming on Arterial Streets
    Traffic Calming on Arterial Streets – WCA October 2001 Letter
    Arterial Transportation Management Study (ATM)
    July 2003 ATM Task Force Meeting
    Arterial Transportation Management Background
    Draft Tool Box (2003)
    October 2003 ATM Workshops
  Powhatan Street Traffic Calming Project
    County Response to Powhatan Traffic Calming Request
  Traffic Issues on 35th Road and Somerset
    County Response to Somerset Traffic Calming Request
  Little Falls Traffic Calming Project
    County Response to Little Falls Traffic Calming Request
    County's 15 August 2003 Letter
  County Response to 27th Street Traffic Calming Request
  County Response to 28th Street Traffic Calming Request
  County Response toNorth Nottingham Traffic Calming Request
  County Response toKensington Traffic Calming Request
  East Falls Church Traffic Calming Project
    East Falls Church Traffic Calming Project Map (August 2001)
  Traffic Enforcement
  Bicycle Lanes
    Bicycle Lanes - County Manager's 20 July 2001 Recommendation
    Arlington Bicycle Lane Network
    WP Article on County Board Approval
Neighborhood Issues

Site Map

 

Traffic Calming on Arterial Streets

MEASURES TO ALTER AN ARTERIAL STREET
Draft Tool Box


Continuously

  • Reduce number of travel lanes
  • Reduce width of travel lanes
  • Introduce on-street parking
  • Add edge treatments
  • Plant street trees
  • Introduce bike lanes
  • Construct medians for pedestrian refuge
  • Regrade streets to allow valley gutters with catch basins between parking and travel lanes
  • Change pavement texture and color
  • Widen sidewalks and planting strips
  • Decrease posted speed limits in combination with geometric street changes
  • Create chicane with alternating sides of parking
  • Speed control with traffic signal progression


Periodically

  • Add tree nubs
  • Construct raised intersections
  • Add pedestrian refuge islands
  • Color pavement in bike / auto conflict areas
  • Worm islands to replace two-way turn lanes
  • Add bus stop nubs, with ample intersection clearance
  • Add ladder style crosswalks
  • Construct roundabouts instead of multilane intersections
  • Add "rest on redsignal control
  • Add speed activated signal control
  • Add pedestrian only phase
  • Paint perpendicular hash-marks at 3' spacing

 

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