Action Item D.2.1 – Survey existing signage to determine its successes and failures. Prepare a sign guideline manual specifying the design of standard signs and design parameters for non-standard ones. Include guidelines for the use of Environmental Cues as an alternative to graphic signage. Also include controls to regulate temporary signage.
Pattern Language: Sign Program (CMPL13), Environmental Cue (CMPL14)
Problem: There Are Numerous Conflicts Among Pedestrians, Autos, Bicycles and Skateboards The traffic pattern that has evolved on the campus distinctly favors the automobile despite the large volume of daily pedestrian traffic. Where roads are sufficient to connect destinations, commonly no other provisions have been made for pedestrians, who simply walk in the roads sharing the roadway with vehicles. Adopting the patterns Walking Campus and Pedestrian Core will improve this situation greatly, but there will remain places in which roadways are maintained at least for emergency use and continue to be shared by pedestrians and occasional auto traffic. There will also be places at which pedestrian and vehicular arteries intersect, such as the two principal foot crossings on Warren Wilson Road. In such places measures should be taken to calm or otherwise control auto traffic and to provide environmental indicators that pedestrians have primacy in a portion, or all, of the pathway. Traffic calming devices, designated paving for pedestrian paths, horizontal separation and modulation of path width are examples of tools that can be brought to bear to this end. In all cases in which roads are reduced from open-access, two-way streets to one-way or limited-access routes, existing paving should be removed to limit vehicular path width to the minimum required for function. Area thus relieved of asphalt paving can be re-configured as pedestrian paths, converted to bio-swales for drainage control or otherwise softened and made greener. Bicycles and skateboards are a special case in the vehicle/pedestrian interface in being capable of speeds comparable to automobiles on campus streets, with the resulting risk and consequences of collision, but also in being able to negotiate the narrowest footpath. Traffic calming devices such as speed humps and bollards should be used to govern bicycle speed, and to an extent the provision and location of attractive bicycle storage facilities can influence choice of route.
Action Item D.2.2 – Develop a plan for minimizing conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles that emphasizes separation, Ownership of
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