Charlottetown to try chicane for traffic calming
Charlottetown will get its first chicane this summer time, throughout a full redevelopment of Harley Road.
A chicane is an S-curve in a road that forces autos to decelerate to navigate it. The road may even generally slender on the chicane.
Charlottetown public works supervisor Scott Adams described Harley Road as a first-rate candidate for a chicane.
“It connects two busy streets, each Mount Edward Highway and St. Peters Highway, so it does are typically a cut-through street,” mentioned Adams.
Some drivers are rushing alongside the road, he mentioned, and there’s simply extra visitors than there must be on the residential road.
“We need to hold drivers who’re making an attempt to get from Level A to Level B on these roads which might be designed to deal with that visitors,” he mentioned.
The chicane serves two functions: to gradual visitors down and deter drivers from utilizing the road in any respect, making it much less interesting as a shortcut.
Chicanes have a couple of benefits over pace bumps. Velocity bumps could be noisy for individuals dwelling near them, and they’re seasonal. Charlottetown makes use of transportable pace bumps which might be taken up within the winter for snow-clearing functions.
The timing is correct for Harley Road as a result of the town is reconstructing the entire streetscape, changing water and sewer strains, repaving and putting in curbs and sidewalks.
Work will start on the road this month, and can take 12 to 16 weeks to finish.
