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VISION Concepts HOW DO I GET TO DOWNTOWN PAWTUCKET CONCEPT 1 : FOLLOW THE TURNPIKE, ALL ROADS LEAD TO MAIN STREET Turnpike project goals Make finding Downtown easy Normalize Pawtucket’s streets and intersections Bring people to Main Street naturally Link people now to Pawtucket’s past Turnpike project components Re-establishing Two-way traffic Adding On-Street parking Encouraging bicycles and pedestrians Adding historic route signage Creating special paving and striping Main Street improvements goals Make two-way traffic without changing utilities Make it active, functional, & beautiful Add traffic calming Main Street components Two-way traffic On-street parking alternating on both sides Raised shared space surface Bike accommodations Through our study of the origins of transportation and vehicle movement through the downtown area of Pawtucket we discovered that Main Street has been a significant route since the early 1700s. The first recorded path or roadway in the city was the Boston Post Road, an important linkage from Boston to New York City that began as a Native American trail and was more formalized after European settlement as the King’s Best Highway. The Boston Post Road was instrumental in the development of New England as it offered a known route for goods and people during settlement expansion and organization. It functioned as the origins of postal travel and was identified as a service route by postmaster general Benjamin Franklin prior to the Revolutionary War. In Pawtucket, the Boston Post Road route can still be identified along the existing streets of Pawtucket Avenue to Pleasant Street, to Main Street, across the Main Street bridge, up Broadway and onto what is now Washington Street (named after President George Washington’s inaugural ride to Boston). While this route currently exists (save one very short segment that has been given to private development), it has been disconnected from common use because of one way configurations and limited intersection options. Other roadways developed in Pawtucket’s early colonial years, specifically a privatized turnpike system that began in the early 1800s and was sold to municipalities in the 1830s. Four important turnpikes converged on Pawtucket: the Valley Falls Turnpike that connected Central Falls and Cumberland; the Norfolk Bristol Turnpike that connected South Attleboro and Boston; the Mineral Spring Turnpike that connected North Providence and Connecticut; the Providence East Turnpike that connected Hope Street and the east side of Providence; and the Providence Pawtucket Turnpike that connected North Main in Providence to Pawtucket. These routes all converged like spokes on the hub of a short segment of Pawtucket’s Main Street. The PDDP Turnpike proposal for downtown Pawtucket is to re-establish these key historic routes into downtown Pawtucket. These routes represent natural instincts for movement in the city and help establish existing landmarks for navigating to and through downtown. 22 PDDP VISION
Historic Turnpike Routes Valley Falls Turnpike Central Falls & Cumberland Norfolk Bristol Turnpike South Attleboro & Boston Mineral Spring Turnpike North Providence & Connecticut Providence East Turnpike Hope Street & east side of Providence Providence Pawtucket Turnpike North Main in Providence This diagram shows the turnpikes of Rhode Island in the 1800s. PDDP FINAL REPORT 23
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Page 4 and 5: TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION VISI
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Page 37 and 38: PROJECT 3 : “P”ARKING The above
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DESIGN Traffic & Street Improvement
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DESIGN Traffic & Street Improvement
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DESIGN Public Parking Management PA
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DESIGN Bicycle & Transit Systems BI
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STREETSCAPE AND PEDESTRIAN SYSTEMS
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DESIGN Landscape LANDSCAPE PLAN GOA
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DESIGN Landscape TREE ORDINANCE GOA
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DESIGN Landscape RIVERWAY COMPONENT
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LANDSCAPE CONCLUSION The PDDP team
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DESIGN Regulatory Framework The PDD
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STATUS AND IMPLEMENTATION
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Opportunities The City of Pawtucket
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