RUGGLES STREET RECONSTRUCTION TREMONT STREET TO WASHINGTON STREET D ECEMBER 9, 2019 WELCOME TO THE RUGGLES STREET OPEN HOUSE Open House 6:00 – 6:30 Presentation 6:30
RUGGLES PROJECT UPDATE MEETING AGENDA December 9, 2019 6:00 PM Open House 30 Minutes Presentation 25 Minutes Discussion and Open House
RUGGLES STREET PROJECT LIMITS
RUGGLES STREET REDESIGN: Public Meetings May 16, 2018 Open House #1 August 23, 2018 Open House #2 October 15, 2018 Walking Tour November 15, 2018 Open House #3 September 4, 2019 Project Update
RUGGLES STREET DESIGN: Concerns We Heard • Pedestrian Safety and Accessibility • Traffic Calming • Lighting Tree Preservation • • Bicycle Accommodations • Parking • Traffic Flow • Beautification and Public Art
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND ACCESSIBILITY • Wider Sidewalks • Additional Marked Raynor Circle Crosswalks Narrowed Travel Lanes and Roadway • Raised Crossings at Accessible Design Side Streets Wider Sidewalks Raised Intersection • Raised Intersections • Narrowed Travel Lanes Ruggles Street and Roadway Curb Raised Crossings Bus Bulb • Bus Bulb-Outs Extensions on Side Streets Out • Accessible Design • Cross slopes • Surface Raised Crossings Width • at Side Streets Raised Intersection • Pedestrian Ramps Curb Extensions Accessible Design
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND ACCESSIBILITY Ruggles Street and Dewitt Drive New Light Fixtures Narrowed Roadway and Pedestrian Crossings Curb Extensions Raised Accessible Design Intersection
TRAFFIC CALMING • Narrowed Roadway • Raised Crossings at Raynor Circle Side Streets • Raised Intersections Additional Marked Narrowed Roadway Raised Intersection • Tighter Curb Radii Ped Crossings • Curb Extensions Ruggles Street Raised Tighter Curb Radii Crossings on Curb Extensions Side Streets Raised Intersection Curb Extensions Narrowed Roadway
LIGHTING • New Ornamental Lighting Raynor Circle Ruggles Street
TREE PRESERVATION, STEWARDSHIP, GREENING • Design Developed to Accommodate Raynor Circle Preservation of Mature Trees • Extensive Tree Protection Methods During Construction Ruggles Street New Tree Planting • • Improved Tree Planting Conditions • Green Infrastructure • Permeable Pavers • Porous Asphalt in Cycle Tracks
TREE PRESERVATION, STEWARDSHIP, GREENING • Site walk with Boston Parks and Recreation staff in October 2019 Raynor Circle 22” Cal. 26” Cal. • Identified trees for Blue Stain Dead 26” Cal. 26” Cal. Fungus possible removal due Central Blue Stain Blue Stain Leader Fungus to health and design Fungus X X X X reasons Ruggles Street • Removal of 6 Trees X 24” Cal. Recommended Conflict with New Curb Ramp • Tree Board Hearing December 5, 2019 – Contact Parks with 2” Cal. Concerns Conflict with Street light X STREET TREE COUNT ? Existing 46 ? ? 2” Cal. 14” Cal. Removed 6 Conflict with Sidewalk 12” Cal. Street light and New 36 Buckle Sidewalk existing Oak Buckle Total 76 Net New 30
BICYCLE ACCOMMODATIONS • Two-Way Bicycle Accommodations Raynor Circle Raised Cycle Track • where Possible Contra Flow Contra Flow • Connection to Cycle Track Cycle Track Connection to Ruggles Station and Southwest Ruggles Station and Corridor Park Southwest Corridor Ruggles Street Park Buffered Bike Buffered Lane Bike Lane Buffered Contra Flow Bike Lane Bike Box Shared Lane Shared Lane
Parking • Ample Resident Parking (<50% Raynor Circle Occupied) • Two-thirds of Cars in Unrestricted Zones are from Outside of Roxbury Zip Codes Ruggles Street Maintain Critical • Parking (adjacent to Park and Haynes House) • Reallocate Parking New Parking Regulations Proposed Regulations to Accommodate Residents and Visitors and Not Long-Term Parking for those Going Elsewhere
Traffic Flow Community Concerns with one- Raynor Circle way flow: • Difficulty making a left from Williams Ruggles Street to Shawmut • Concern about travel time • Concern about circuitous travel route
RECOMMENDATION: Keep Two –Way Flow Two-Way Flow Existing
Beautification and Public Art • Street Trees • New Ornamental Raynor Circle Lighting Fixtures • Public Art Gateway Public Art Piece Ruggles Street Streetscape Public Art Streetscape Public Art Dewitt Playground Public Art Installation
PUBLIC ART UPDATE: Streetscape Public Art Preferences What Art Elements Do You Prefer? Wayfinding Signage 17 Classic Benches 16 Thematic Seating 16 Signage with Lighting 15 Art Integrated into the Park Fencing 13 Special Paving 12 Flexible Seating 8 Other 7 Interpretative Signage 7 Vertical Elements 5 N=40 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18
PUBLIC ART UPDATE: Streetscape Public Art
PUBLIC ART UPDATE: Streetscape Public Art Preferences THEMATIC SUGGESTIONS FOR STREETSCAPE ART • Local History • People of the Community • Local Culture N=40
PUBLIC ART UPDATE: Ruggles Area Public Art Installations 5 Sculpture – Helion – Madison Square New Gateway Art – 2 Whittier CNI 6 Mural – Ruggles at Washington Development 18 7 7 Sculpture - ‘Airfoil’ – Ramsay Park 1 8 8 Mural – Tropical Foods Ruggles Streetscape Art 9 Mural – Hamill Gallery of African Art 3 5 New Art – Dewitt 10 Sculpture – Criss-Cross Signal Spire Playground 4 New Art – 11 Mural – Ziegler and Warren Street Madison Park High School 12 Mural – Boston Community Capital 9 6 13 Historic Marker – Palladio Hall 13 14 New Art – Boston Public Library – Dudley Branch 17 15 Mural – Washington at Malcolm X Blvd. 10 11 16 Historic Marker – Spooner Lambert House 15 1213 16 17 Memorial – Korey Grant and Charles Copney 14 18 Sculpture – Boston Police Headquarters
DESIGN UPDATE: Tentative Schedule Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter Spring 2020 2020 2020 2020 2021 2021 FINAL PLANS RUGGLES STREET RECONSTRUCTION Artist Community Construction Final Selection Meetings with Coordinated Design Design Team with Street Reconstruction
DISCUSSION https://www.boston.gov/ruggles-street-project Project Website: Contact: Zach Wassmouth, Boston Public Works Department Zachary.Wassmouth@boston.gov
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