PORT ANGELES — The city of Port Angeles will host an open house to share preliminary concepts for safety improvements to Lincoln Street on Wednesday.
The open house will be from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Vern Burton Community Center Meeting Room, 308 E. Fourth St.
City engineers have begun preliminary designs for traffic and pedestrian safety improvements on Lincoln between First and Eighth streets.
Planned changes could include:
• Restrict left turns and reducing driveway widths.
• Add bike lanes.
• Improve the bus stop near Safeway for bicycle and pedestrian safety.
• Install a traffic signal at Third Street and a flashing pedestrian crosswalk at Fourth Street.
• Add Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-accessible pedestrian curb ramps with curb extensions and reduced crosswalk lengths.
• Reduce street parking.
“Improvements on this corridor are especially important since over 100 pedestrians per hour walk along or cross Lincoln Street between Third and Fourth Street,” Project Manager Jonathan Boehme said in a news release.
“It is also the location of two serious or fatal pedestrian injury collisions between 2012 and 2016.”
City staff will be at the open house to answer questions about the design alternatives.
A survey will be provided.
One of the survey questions asks whether the speed limit on Lincoln Street should be reduced from 30 mph to 25 mph.
For those who cannot attend the open house, the survey is available on the city’s website, http://www.cityofpa.us/.
The Lincoln Street safety project is listed as a $700,000 project in the city’s Capital Facilities Plan.
The estimated design cost is $100,000 and the estimated construction cost is $600,000. Construction is scheduled to occur in 2020, according to the plan.
“The city is actively seeking funding to advance this project from the current planning stage into the design and construction stage,” Boehme said.
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Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 56450, or at rollikainen@peninsuladailynews.com.
