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Community Mitigation Fund – Washington Street, Pleasant Street, and West Wyoming Avenue

On Wednesday, August 19th at 7 PM, the City will be conducting a remote public input session to present the recommendations for spending the City’s Community Mitigation Fund grant money. The grant has approximately $74,000 allocated for pedestrian, bicycle, and accessibility improvements in the neighborhoods of Washington Street, Pleasant Street, and West Wyoming Avenue between Main Street and Cottage Street. We are interested in your feedback as we select the final project list for implementation. The link for the meeting can be found at www.cityofmelrose.org/remote-meetings.

Click here for the full report 

Click here to see the presentation from the 8/19/2020 meeting

The above report from our consultants, Stantec, describes the roadways that were part of this analysis and identifies and prioritizes needs in these areas for pedestrian, bicycle, and accessibility improvements. From this report, the City has identified the following priority list, which we will present at the public meeting. At the meeting, we would like to gather your input on whether there are items that should be added or removed from this list, and the relative priority to the community of each of these items. We will likely not have enough funding to perform all of these items, so it will be important to rank them in priority order so that we can accomplish those that are most important to the community:

  •          Paint all missing crosswalk markings at cross streets within the entire corridor. (This refers to crosswalks that are parallel with the main roads, some of which are missing.)
  •          Make the bus stop at Wyoming and Cottage accessible; presently bus riders exit onto a grass strip with curbing, rather than onto a sidewalk.
  •          Repaint Washington Street to have 11-foot travel lanes and a 3-foot shoulder, for traffic calming, and paint bicycle sharrows. Repaint Pleasant Street to have 11-foot travel lanes and shoulders with varying widths as allowable. This will allow for a safer riding environment for cyclists, as well as slower traffic. There is not enough room anywhere within the corridor study to add bike lanes.
  •          Ensure that there is a consistent corridor of sidewalks and ADA ramps on both Pleasant Street and Washington Street on at least one side of the road for the entire corridor.
  •          Evaluate whether there is a safe location (or two) to add curb ramps and crosswalks across Pleasant Street between Wyoming and Stone Place. The north entrance to Converse Lane has been identified as one safe location.
  •          Relocate crosswalk across Washington Street from Trenton Street to Clinton Road, where sight lines are better.
  •          Consider adding a crosswalk on Washington Street at Pebble Road.
  •          Add a pushbutton rapid flashing beacon to the crosswalk across Washington Street near #99.

 

If you have comments on this meeting, or the project, that you would like to highlight please email the City at publicworks@cityofmelrose.org with the subject line "Community Mitigation Fund Comments". Please submit all comments by September 15th, 2020!