Augusta Street Safety Improvements

On June 29, City leaders hosted a neighborhood meeting to provide data, listen to concerns and receive community feedback.
On June 29, City leaders hosted a neighborhood meeting to provide data, listen to concerns and receive community feedback.
On June 29, City leaders hosted a neighborhood meeting to provide data, listen to concerns and receive community feedback.
On June 29, City leaders hosted a neighborhood meeting to provide data, listen to concerns and receive community feedback.
On June 29, City leaders hosted a neighborhood meeting to listen to concerns and receive community feedback.
On June 29, City leaders hosted a neighborhood meeting to provide data, listen to concerns and receive community feedback.
On June 29, City leaders hosted a neighborhood meeting to provide data, listen to concerns and receive community feedback.

The city recognizes the need to immediately address safety along Augusta Street and has engaged Stantec, a traffic engineering consulting firm, to perform a pedestrian, bicycle, and traffic safety audit, and Urban Design Associates, a firm specializing in planning.

City Council approved a resolution to assume ownership of a 3.2-mile stretch of Augusta Street from the South Carolina Department of Transportation. SCDOT must approve the request. The City already maintains the area from Mauldin Road to River Street. Ownership of the road will allow the City to more easily implement portions of the South Downtown Master Plan and safety improvements on Augusta Street.

Citizen-identified Solutions

Timeline

Completed
✓ Enhanced enforcement to
include a total of 393
citations and 780 warnings
since January
✓ Engaged planning and traffic
engineering consultant
✓ Analyzed and communicated
feedback from residents

In Progress
✓ Performing pedestrian,
bicycle and traffic safety audit

Next Steps
• Develop a plan with
detailed recommendations
• Hold neighborhood meetings to review safety audit, options and implementation of draft plan

Traffic Calming Terms

Road diet: Lane reduction technique to reduce the total number of travel lanes via use of a center, shared turning lane or median.

Roundabout: Circular roadway improvement used on higher volume streets to allocate right-of-way between competing vehicle movements. Roundabouts limit vehicle speeds and control flow on multiple streets simultaneously.

Landscaped Median: Area at the center of a roadway raised above roadbed to allow adequate width for plantings.

Pedestrian Refuge Island: A type of median used to reduce pedestrian crashes by allowing a safe place to stop at the midpoint of roadway.

Enhanced Crosswalks: Use of enhanced painting techniques to make pedestrian crosswalks more visible to oncoming traffic.

Augusta Street Safety Improvements

Citizen-identified Solutions

Road Diet

Roundabouts

Medians

Crosswalks

Study Area

Timeline

Traffic Calming Terms