The City of Greenville is asking the community to provide input on ways to improve safety on August Street — from Church Street to Crystal Avenue — for pedestrians + bike riders. The survey will give the city an idea of which improvements the public wants to see implemented.

Some background:
Greenville City Council approved an amendment to the FY22 budget setting aside up to $250,000 for pedestrian safety projects. The funding focuses on traffic calming, bike + pedestrian protection, and sidewalks. In addition to a neighborhood infrastructure bond, these funds are being used to study streets + locations with the greatest need as a way to identify projects to design and construct.

Next Steps:
The city is using traffic engineering consulting firm Stantec to perform a pedestrian, bicycle, and traffic safety audit and Urban Design Associates — a firm specializing in planning — for the project. The next steps are to develop a plan with detailed recommendations and to hold neighborhood meetings to review the safety audit and the options + implementation of the draft plan.

Before you take the survey, here are some definitions to familiarize yourself with:

🚧 Road diet — A lane reduction technique, which reduces the number of travel lanes by creating a center, shared turning lane, or median.

🚧 Pedestrian Refuge Island — A type of median that reduces pedestrian crashes by creating a safe place to stop at the midpoint of a roadway.

🚧 Enhanced Crosswalks — The use of enhanced painting techniques to make pedestrian crosswalks more visible to oncoming traffic.

As of now, there is no end date listed for the survey.

Take the survey here.