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Visualizing a better Standish Street

Visualizing a better Standish Street

Standish Street is a gateway to Provincetown’s waterfront. It’s also a designated bike route to the Cape Cod National Seashore. And it carries thousands of visitors on foot, buses on their way to the bus stop, sightseeing vehicles, and lots of cars heading to the MacMillan Pier parking

What is Daylighting?

What is Daylighting?

Daylighting is creating “clear zones” at intersections so that everyone can see each other. Doing this can reduce injuries by up to 30% (Bloomberg, FHWA) In Provincetown, there are already laws and local regulations in place to support this approach… they’re just not implemented. Key Daylighting Tactics • Daylighting Best

Reimagining Standish Street north of Bradford Street

Reimagining Standish Street north of Bradford Street

Standish Street is part of a low-traffic bike route from MacMillan Pier to the bike trails at Beech Forest in the Cape Cod National Seashore. Recent retail development has increased the number of motor vehicles using this intersection. When CVS came to town, it was required to build sidewalks and

Reimagining Winthrop Street at Bradford Street

Reimagining Winthrop Street at Bradford Street

There’s a lot of bike traffic across this intersection in both directions. It’s the primary low-traffic route to and from the Stop & Shop supermarket on Shank Painter Road, and is commonly used as a two-way route despite part of the street being marked as one-way for cars.

Reimagining Howland Street at Bradford Street

Reimagining Howland Street at Bradford Street

This intersection has the first stop sign coming into town from the east, and there are always lots of people walking and biking year-round to travel to and from the East End Market. In this visualization, painted sidewalks and curb extensions define the space to shorten the crosswalks, a bike

Reimagining Conwell Street at Route 6

Reimagining Conwell Street at Route 6

Here’s another of our 1950s-era intersections that is in need of updates, and this time the focus is on bicycling. (Google Map) When Conwell Street was rebuilt a couple of years ago to add bike lanes and a sidewalk, they gave up when they got to this intersection. The

Reimagining Ryder Street at Bradford Street

Reimagining Ryder Street at Bradford Street

Corners with lots of people walking and biking should be clear of visual obstructions so everyone can see what’s going on around them. Parked cars often block these sightlines and make people waiting to cross the street invisible to drivers. In this visualization, a parking space blocking the sightline

Reimagining Province Lands Road at Bradford Street Extension

Reimagining Province Lands Road at Bradford Street Extension

This 1950s-era former state road has never been updated to provide any space for walking and biking. It’s a beautiful location along the tidal marsh and connects the rotary at Commercial Street to the Moors Road entrance to the Province Lands in the Cape Cod National Seashore. (Google Map)

Reimagining Route 6

Safer Streetscape

Reimagining Route 6

Route 6 as it is today. Shank Painter Road intersects at the lower left, and the signalized intersection with Conwell St is about 2000 ft to the upper right. (Google map) Request for Proposals The town issued a request for proposals last week for a consultant to come up with