PB PlaceMaking - Maryland Department of Transportation

Transit can help activate places.
Development Concept
To achieve a balanced transportation system, the Eutaw District will
include:
• Rail transit stations that are physically and visually linked to one
another and that portray a sense of arrival and activity through
architecture and landscaping;
• Streets as places of shared use, including improvements such
as landscaping, street trees, sidewalk widening, attractive
pedestrian-scaled lighting, street furniture and clear, wellorganized
signage;
• Reconfiguration of major automobile thoroughfares into
boulevards, allowing traffic to coexist with pedestrian-oriented
development;
• Well defined pedestrian thoroughfares, including a connection
from Penn Station to Pennsylvania Avenue along West Preston
Street;
• Concentrating commercial parking into structures and locating
residential parking behind buildings to improve the pedestrian
streetscape;
• Reconfiguration of Dolphin Street to reflect the historic grid,
improving access and intuitive orientation for pedestrians and all
modes of transportation; and
• Reconfiguration of the intersection of MLK Boulevard and
Howard Street.
A pedestrian-oriented streetscape.
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