Park Woodlawn Area Plan - Charlotte-Mecklenburg County

Part 1:Concept PlanPark Woodlawn Area PlanTransportationCharlotte-MecklenburgPlanning DepartmentWoodlawn RoadWoodlawn Road is a major arterial that connects Park Road and Interstate 77, as well as theheart of the Park Woodlawn Mixed-Use Activity Center. Combined with Billy Graham Parkway,Runnymeade Lane, Sharon Road, Wendover Road, Eastway Drive, and Sugar Creek Road, thestreets form Charlotte’s Route 4. The circumferential route is roughly four miles from the city’scenter, serving crosstown travel.The prior District Plan actually recommended a future widening to six lanes. This new area planinstead recommends a cross-section (A5 — A7) that retains the number of travel lanes to theexisting four. However, new left turn lanes will be important at major redevelopment sites. Theseturn lanes also provide an opportunity to create pedestrian crossing islands. Bicycle lanes, or thepreservation of space to someday add them, are also recommended along Woodlawn Road, sincethe street connects the Activity Center with the South Transit Corridor, where bicycle lanes havealready been added to Woodlawn Road.East of Brandywine Road to Montford Drive, a separate cross-section (A7) is recommendedto accommodate a side path for the Little Sugar Creek Greenway. This side path serves as ashort-term implementation strategy for extending the Greenway beyond its current terminus atBrandywine Road via Woodlawn Road to a new signal and pedestrian crossing island at MontfordDrive.DRAFT January 15, 201342