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City consultants find rightsizing Dayton Boulevard from five lanes to three is feasible, recommend signal retiming and pedestrian improvements
Summary
A consultant team told the City of Red Bank it is feasible to reconfigure Dayton Boulevard from five travel lanes to a three-lane cross section to improve safety and multimodal access, while recommending coordinated signal timing, speed limit reduction and targeted intersection study at Morrison Springs and Ashland Terrace.
Consultants from Barge Design told Red Bank commissioners that a rightsizing feasibility study for Dayton Boulevard found the corridor can be reconfigured from a five-lane to a three-lane section while keeping a center turn lane and adding space for separated bike facilities and landscaping.
The study covered Dayton Boulevard from Signal Mountain Road to Gap Road, roughly five miles within the city limits, and assessed existing traffic, crash history, pedestrian connectivity and future operations. Geneva Dowdy, one of the project’s transportation experts, summarized the main finding: “the study found it was feasible to reconfigure Dayton Boulevard from the 5 lane section to the 3 lane section for vehicle travelway.”
Why it matters: City staff and the consultant framed the reconfiguration as a means to improve safety, walking and biking access and corridor “livability.” The report flags segments with crash rates above the statewide average and sidewalk gaps that reduce pedestrian connectivity; it also identifies signal timing and speed as levers to improve outcomes if lane reallocation…
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