DESIGN DETAIL: ROAD REALIGNMENT

The current driveway disrupts pedestrian flow between courts, fields, and playground and the bandstand and Veterans Memorial. In the final design proposal, the driveway is extended past Sylvester School to Route 139. Parking along the length of the driveway, similar to Center Elementary School’s parking, allows visitors to park near their intended use, be it the fields, bandstand, or Veterans Memorial. A one-way loop entering from Route 139 west of Sylvester School allows for public access during school hours; the school’s one-way loop entering from Silver Street can be used as usual for school drop-off and pick-up and by the public when school is not in session. A speed table slows traffic at the main pedestrian crosswalk across the driveway. Speed tables are typically 3 inches high and 22 feet long.¹

The parking lot in the southeastern corner of the site remains, but is reduced in area by 15,300 square feet. Where there were 47 spaces, there are now 20. An additional 40 spaces along the realigned driveway bring the total parking spaces up to 60. There are two universally accessible spaces in each lot, which meets and exceeds federal requirements for one space in a 1 to 25 space parking lot and two spaces in a 26 to 50 space parking lot.²

Do Not Enter Signs

24 parking spaces

2 accessible spaces

Driveway and parking signs

Signs designating vehicle entrances should be at least installed temporarily, if not permanently. While residents become accustomed to the realigned driveway, it may be necessary to use temporary signs to indicate where B. Everett Hall Field visitors can park and where parking should be reserved for Sylvester School visitors. Given the one-way loop of traffic from Silver Street to Route 139 and from the entrance west of Sylvester School to the exit east of Sylvester School, it will be necessary to install two “do not enter” signs where the Sylvester School driveway

16parkingspaces

ROUTE 139

9 parking spaces

11 parking spaces