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Walking is for Everyone

Join us at the Walking Summit on October 29, 2015 to discuss pedestrian accessibility, crosswalk innovations, and the new draft guidelines for Public Rights-of-Way. Get insights on creating inclusive pedestrian paths and implementing accessible street designs. Learn about key provisions for accessible routes, sidewalk maintenance, and pedestrian signals. For more details and registration, visit the U.S. Access Board website.

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Walking is for Everyone

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  1. Walking is for Everyone Ensuring Access for All Walking Summit October 29, 2015

  2. Pedestrian: a person on foot, in a wheelchair, on skates, or on a skateboard. • Crosswalk: (a) that part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs or in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway, and in the absence of a sidewalk on one side of the roadway, the part of a roadway included within the extension of the lateral lines of the sidewalk at right angles to the center line; (b) any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated as a pedestrian crossing by pavement marking lines on the surface, which might be supplemented by contrasting pavement texture, style, or color.

  3. Public Rights-of-Way Training PROW Draft Guidelines Scott Windley, PROW Team Leader U.S. Access Board row@access-board.gov

  4. What’s different from ADAAG? The PROW drafts adapt ADAAG to the rights-of way environment; the new PROW Guidelines will be a stand-alone document. Key features: • new communications features: APS and DWs; • slope limits of an accessible route are not applicable to sidewalks; and • no path-of-travel requirement.

  5. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines R1 Application and Administration R2 Scoping Requirements R3 Technical Provisions • Pedestrian access route (PAR) • Alternate circulation path • Curb ramps and blended transitions • Detectable warning surfaces • Pedestrian crossings • Accessible pedestrian signals (APS) • Street furniture • On-street parking R4 Supplementary Technical Provisions (from ADA/ABA-AG)

  6. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: A high degree of convenient access is easiest to achieve in new construction

  7. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: In alterations, you may not be able to optimize conditions for every user (follow new construction guidelines to the maximum extent feasible)

  8. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Provide a pedestrian access route (PAR) within every sidewalk, curb ramp and street crossing: 48” clear

  9. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Shoulders need PARs, too… (48” & 2% cross slope)

  10. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Sidewalk running slope may take that of the roadway, but cross slope must not exceed 2% in the PAR

  11. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Provide detectable alternate routes when the PAR is detoured; same-side is best, if feasible…

  12. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Same-side alternate circulation path needs curb ramps, too

  13. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Be mindful of protruding objects along the whole width of the pedestrian walkway

  14. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Provide a curb ramp (slope> 1:20) or blended transition (slope < 1:20) for each crossing

  15. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Perpendicular ramps must have landings at the top for turning or bypassing the ramp (48” min)

  16. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Parallel ramps must have landings at the bottom for street access and turns

  17. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Combined ramps slope the sidewalk down in order to shorten the perpendicular run to the street

  18. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Blended transitions have a slope of less than 5%; because they are not ramps, they don’t require landings

  19. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: However, they DO require detectable warnings to provide notification underfoot of the change from pedestrian to vehicular route

  20. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Detectable warnings are particularly useful at medians. New technical specification requires only 24”

  21. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Provide adequate time to cross (3.5 fps)

  22. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Provide pedestrian signals at roundabouts where pedestrian crossings are more than one lane

  23. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Provide pedestrian signals at roundabouts where pedestrian crossings are more than one lane

  24. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Include APS where pedestrian signals are newly installed

  25. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Provide clear ground space at controls

  26. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Street furniture must be usable, but not in the way

  27. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: On-street Parking

  28. Draft 2 PROW Guidelines Key Provisions: Angled on-street parking provides good van access

  29. For more information:Access Board website:www.access-board.govTechnical assistance: 800/872-2253 (v) 800/993-2822 (tty) row@access-board.govPublications:--accessible sidewalks design manual--accessible sidewalks videotape--synthesis on detectable warnings--research on controllers and APS--bulletin on roundabout accessibility

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