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Thursday, December 13, 2012

No Back-In Parking for Broadway Streetscape Project

Broadway will not implement back-in angle parking in the streetscape project.

The Newport City Council voted to receive a recommendation from City Manager Jane Howington to keep parking in the Broadway Streetscape Project front-in angle parking during Wednesday night's meeting. City staff conducted a feasibility investigation on implementing back-in angle parking. A report, provided by the Louis Berger Group, recommended that parking should remain as initially designed for several reasons. According to the report, there have only been an average of 2.5 angle  parking accidents on Broadway. The report also cited public resistance to back-in parking, especially from the elderly, could be problematic. Instances from Brunswick, ME and Plattsburg, NY, were also cited in the report, where communities adopted and later …

Tom

7:33 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012

It doesn't take a consultant to figure out that it was a bad idea. Stop screwing up traffic for a minority entity.   more ›

Thursday, November 15, 2012

City Considering Back-In Parking on Broadway

City administration will report back to the council on the pros and cons of back-in parking by the Dec. 12 meeting.

Newport drivers may need to put it in reverse. The Newport City Council passed a resolution 5-2 to reconsider back-in parking in the Broadway Streetscape project during Wednesday night's meeting. Councilors Jeanne Napolitano and Stephen Coyne were opposed. During a recent charette examining ideas to improve and enhance the Washington Square area, back-in diagonal parking on Broadway was suggested as an alternative to the parking arrangement planned in the Broadway Streetscape project. The design for the project has already been completed, and creating a redesign would come with a cost, City Manager Jane Howington said. City Councilor Jeanne Napolitano said she was wary of making changes so late in the design process and that she would be …

Bari George

11:33 am on Thursday, November 15, 2012

Dan Burden, Executive Director of the Walkable Livable Communities Institute and the leader of the recent Washington Square Charrette, pointed out to attendees the numerous safety benefits of reverse diagonal parking. He identifies it as a primary method of achieving Complete Streets. In addition to improved safety to pedestrians and cyclists, there is significant reduction of risk to motorists …   more ›

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