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Pedestrian Transportation Facilities

List of pedestrian facilities, amenities, and street design elements that can help enhance communities' pedestrian-friendliness, livability, and the efficiency of the overall transportation system.

2.1.1 Pedestrian Transportation

 

As the Atlanta Region population continues to grow, many communities strive to enhance livability by offering a diversity of transportation alternatives, including pedestrian facilities. Communities can improve the efficiency of the existing transportation system by creating pedestrian-friendly streets through traffic management and by incorporating street design elements that enhance the safety, security, comfort, and efficient mobility of pedestrians. Pedestrian Transportation Facilities include:

 

• Sidewalk

• Off-Road Path and Trail

• Curbs and Curb Ramps

• Ramp and/or Stair Connection to adjacent property

• Traffic Control Devices; Pedestrian signal heads

• Pedestrian Bridge or Tunnel

• Mid-block Street Crossing with signage and crosswalk

• Pedestrian Refuge (In Street Median)

• Bus Stop; Shelter

• Landscaped Plaza or Pocket Park

• Weather protection features, including storefront awning, street tree and entry canopy

• Way-finding Sign; Street Identification Sign

• Benches, Trash Cans

• Pedestrian Scale Street Lights

• Bollard, low fence, handrail

• Crosswalk; Marked, Raised and/or Material Enhanced

• Level driveway area




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