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Broad Street TIA redesign would gain structured stalls but cut surface spaces; commissioners weigh parking, bike lanes and road diets
Summary
Engineers showed revised Broad Street plans that restore more street-level parking than earlier designs but would still reduce the total number of surface-standard spaces once stalls are brought up to current size; staff also presented options to add on-street spaces by changing Reynolds or Ellis, and urged a management plan for downtown parking.
Augusta-Richmond County engineering staff updated commissioners on the Downtown Tier Transportation Investment Act (TIA) Broad Street redesign and a set of parking-management and street-section options intended to balance traffic flow, bike infrastructure and parking supply.
What was presented: Engineers said Broad Street currently has 760 on-street parking stalls but most are substandard in width or length; restriping to modern vehicle standards would reduce the usable surface total by roughly 140 spaces. A revised project design replaces many planned planting islands with angled stalls and yields roughly 590 street-level spaces on the rebuilt Broad Street (compared with 430 in an earlier design), but the project will still reduce the current…
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