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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