Longwood Ave. Revised Plan September 26, 2017
RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS • Plan improved for cyclists since spring Bike Summit • Overall bike lanes will be increased overall to more than ½ mi on Longwood • Additional safety accommodations for cyclists and pedestrians • Plan reflects input from leaders, city, institutions • Balances multimodal access needs for patients, employees, students and visitors
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RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS
Longwood Ave: Kent St to Chapel St Longwood Towers
Maintain Sharrows
NEW DON’T BLOCK THE BOX STRIPING AND SIGNAGE
Maintain bike lane
ORIGINAL PLAN REVISIONS TO PLAN
Existing vehicle queues spill back through the intersection Facilitates bicycle and vehicle turns from Chapel St Slide 3
RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS
NEW SHARROWS INTO BROOKLINE
NEW 5’ BIKE LANE FROM BROOKLINE
NEW SHIFT IN DOUBLE YELLOW CENTERLINE
Cross Section 5’ 10’ 10’ 10’
Cross Section 20’ 5’ 13’
Longwood Ave: Chapel St to Riverway
NEW EASTBOUND LANE CONFIGURATION
Bike box and lane will allow safer bicycle queuing ‘No Turn on Red’ signage added at Riverway Vehicle queues expected to be similar to existing conditions
NEW BIKE BOX AT RIVERWAY APPROACH
ORIGINAL PLAN REVISIONS TO PLAN
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RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS
Longwood Ave: Riverway to Nessel Way Temple Israel
NEW 5’ BIKE LANE IN BOTH DIRECTIONS
NEW WESTBOUND BIKE BOX
NEW SHIFT IN DOUBLE YELLOW CENTERLINE
NEW DON’T BLOCK THE BOX STRIPING BIKES PROTECTED FROM TURNING TRAFFIC
Bike lanes protected with bollards east of the Riverway Safer lane alignment across intersection for vehicles
Pilgrim Garage
ORIGINAL PLAN REVISIONS TO PLAN
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RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS Longwood Ave: Nessel Way to Pilgrim Rd NEW 5’ WB BIKE LANE BEGINS AS TURN LANE BEGINS
NEW 5’ EB BIKE LANE ENDS AS TURN LANE BEGINS
MASCO Building
NEW SHIFT IN DOUBLE YELLOW CENTERLINE
Maintain left turn lane Pilgrim Garage
ORIGINAL PLAN REVISIONS TO PLAN
Shift in centerline provides wider EB travel lane, safer shared operations with bicycles
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RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS Maintain WB sharrows
Winsor Temp. Parking Lot
NEW SHIFT IN DOUBLE YELLOW CENTER LINE
Longwood Center Building
WIDEN CROSSWALK
EASTBOUND BIKE BOX
NEW 5’ EASTBOUND BIKE LANE
Maintain right turn radius
BROOKLINE AVE
Longwood Ave: Pilgrim Rd to Brookline Ave.
ORIGINAL PLAN REVISIONS TO PLAN
Eastbound bike lane along Longwood Center Bike box and wider crosswalk at Brookline Ave intersection Design able to accommodate turns by large vehicles from Brookline Ave Slide 7
RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS
Longwood Ave: Brookline Ave to Binney St No change to Longwood Ave WB CREATE UNOFFICIAL BIKE QUEUEING AREA
MOVE BUS STOP Longwood Galleria
BIDMC Shapiro
PARTIAL BUS & BIKE LANE
ORIGINAL PLAN REVISIONS TO PLAN
Shared bus/bike lane benefits MBTA bus operations Also may help discourage curbside parking Slide 8
RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS
Longwood Ave: Binney St to Blackfan Cir 333 Longwood Ave
Maintain WB sharrows
Longwood Galleria
ADD NEW LEFT TURN LANE
Maintain 2 WB Travel Lanes, now 10.5’
NEW 4-5’ EB BIKE LANE
NEW SHIFT IN DOUBLE YELLOW CENTERLINE
BCH Enders Building
NEW IMPROVEMENTS
New eastbound bike lane Safer, less erratic westbound driver behavior with new turn lane Reduced WB delay benefits MBTA routes 8, 19, 47, CT2, CT3 and MASCO shuttles
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BENEFITS OF NEW WESTBOUND LEFT-TURN LANE
Longwood Ave at Binney Street Existing Conditions: MBTA/MASCO serving westbound curbside bus stop (26 per hour)
Westbound vehicle waiting for gap to turn left onto Binney Street (80 per hour)
New Westbound Left-Turn Lane
Safer for bicycles
Drivers currently weave between vehicles waiting to turn and stopped buses Often cutting across the path of through bicycles
Improves vehicle operations
Stopped buses and turning vehicles can block both lanes of Longwood Ave
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RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS
Longwood Ave: Blackfan Cir to Ave Louis Pasteur Harvard Vanderbilt Hall BCH Patient & Family Garage
NEW WESTBOUND 4-5’ BIKE LANE
EASTBOUND TRAVEL LANE REPURPOSED
NEW 5’ EASTBOUND BUFFERED BIKE LANE NEW EASTBOUND 4-5’ BIKE LANE
NARROWED MBTA/ MASCO BUS STOP
BCH Hunnewell Building
Tosteson Med Education Center
ORIGINAL PLAN REVISIONS TO PLAN
Removed EB travel lane for bike lane and MBTA/MASCO bus stop (29 stops in AM peak hr) Travel lanes 11’ consistent with City guidelines for heavy bus/truck areas (>8%) Slide 11
RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS
Longwood Ave: Tugo Circle BWH Lying In Hospital
Harvard Vanderbilt Hall
Maintain sharrows in intersection
NEW PAINTED MEDIAN
NEW 6’ BIKE LANE IN BOTH DIRECTIONS
NEW PAINTED MEDIAN
NEW LEFT-TURN LANE NEW EASTBOUND 4-5’ BIKE LANE
HMS Quad
ORIGINAL PLAN REVISIONS TO PLAN
EB travel lane repurposed east of Tugo Circle to allow for bike lanes in each direction All lanes 10.5’- 12’ to accommodate large trucks and buses Slide 12
RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS Longwood Ave: Tugo Circle to Palace Rd MCPHSU Matricaria Center
BWH Lying In Hospital
EASTBOUND TRAVEL LANE REMOVED NEW 6’ BIKE LANE IN BOTH DIRECTIONS
NEW 4’ WESTBOUND BIKE LANE
NEW SHIFT IN DOUBLE YELLOW CENTERLINE
NARROWED 10’ TRAVEL LANES HSDM
180 Longwood Ave
NEW IMPROVEMENTS
Bus & truck volumes likely lower than other segments. Two EB travel lanes needed to provide storage for vehicle queues from Palace Rd and Huntington Ave Slide 13
RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS Longwood Ave: Palace Rd to Huntington Ave MassArt Kennedy Building
NEW WESTBOUND BIKE LANE MCPHSU Matricaria Center
180 Longwood Ave
Larger right turn radius
NEW SHIFT IN DOUBLE YELLOW CENTERLINE
NARROWED TRAVEL LANES
CREATE UNOFFICIAL BIKE QUEUEING AREA NEW IMPROVEMENTS
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Shift in center line provides larger right-turn radius from Huntington Ave outbound
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FY 2018 MASCO BICYCLE PLANNING Sears Rotary
Longwood Ave Bridge
Southwest Corridor Connections
Oscar Tugo Circle
Complete Implementation Complete Study/Design
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