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Dunedin updates multimodal plan, highlights e-bike safety and new streetscape standards
Summary
Consultants presented an update to Dunedin's multimodal transportation plan that incorporates 2019-2023 crash data, community engagement (700+ responses), e-bike safety recommendations, and six street types with streetscape design standards to guide sidewalks, amenity zones and bicycle facilities. Staff will gather committee feedback and pursue commission approval in December.
City consultants presented an update to Dunedin's multimodal transportation plan that emphasizes e-bike safety, intersection improvements and a new chapter of streetscape design standards.
The update includes a five-year crash analysis (2019'2023) that found just over 2,500 crashes with a decrease in fatal and serious-injury crashes but an increase in pedestrian crashes. Community engagement generated more than 700 responses and flagged e-bike safety on the Pinellas Trail and at major road intersections as a top concern.
Consultants recommended a layered approach: partnerships with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office and sheriff-led enforcement, education and outreach campaigns, targeted intersection improvements (noting Curlew/US-19 as a hot spot), and trial traffic-calming measures along the trail. The plan also recommends more street lighting, safer crossings, and targeted visibility improvements at busy intersections.
A significant addition is a set of streetscape design standards with six street types that provide recommended minimum and preferred widths for the pedestrian zone, amenity zone and bicycle facilities, and guidance for lane widths and on-street parking. The standards are intended to make multimodal corridors visually consistent and to help the city communicate preferred cross-sections to FDOT and county partners.
Staff will take resident and committee feedback into account, update the plan and present it for commission approval in December. Commissioners emphasized the plan should be a living document that guides both development and targeted city-initiated projects to fill sidewalk and bike-connection gaps.
