A community workshop to discuss the railroad crossing improvements at Candler and McDonough Streets and the North McDonough streetscape improvements will be held on Thursday, September 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the City Commission meeting room of Decatur City Hall, 509 North McDonough Street, in downtown Decatur.
In addition to the railroad crossing improvements, funding recently has been obtained to design streetscape improvements to North McDonough Street between Howard Avenue and Trinity Place. Both projects have similar goals — to improve safety and accessibility for pedestrians, bicyclists and others using these facilities. The streetscape improvements will join the railroad crossing improvements where North McDonough meets the CSX rail crossing.
We hope you will be able to join us to learn more about preliminary plans for the railroad crossing improvements and to help start the planning for the North McDonough streetscape improvements.
These projects are based on Decatur’s 2008 Community Transportation Plan. A major goal of the Community Transportation Plan is to encourage healthy lifestyles and active living in Decatur.
The City has retained URS Corporation of Atlanta, a planning and engineering design firm, to help plan both projects. Sprinkle Consulting of Lutz, Florida, a nationally-recognized design firm that specializes in bicycle and pedestrian planning, is assisting URS in the work. The projects will be funded through the City’s Capital Improvements Bond program and grants from the Georgia Department of Transportation, the Atlanta Regional Commission and MARTA.
Is there a narrative of the improvements here? for the corssing at s.candler & RR to Dairy Queen to Trinity?