South Broadway, Ashwaubenon, WI

This national award-winning project provided an established residential neighborhood with a pedestrian-friendly local street. Along with work on Potts Avenue, Joannes Avenue, and other area streets, this roadway used innovative traffic-calming features to slow traffic and provides pedestrian access and upsized storm sewers to eliminate past drainage problems.

Challenges

• This project totaled approximately 1.5 miles of roadway reconstruction along the South Broadway Avenue corridor including several cross streets between South Broadway and Ashland Avenue (Bus. Hwy. 41), and the associated Ashland Avenue intersection reconstructions. The other roadways included Cormier Avenue, Potts Avenue, Morris Avenue, and Joannes Avenue, all of which required special designs to meet railroad, drainage, and intersection needs.
• Signage, markings, signalization, and medians were all included in the design of this project.
• Overall coordination of this project spanned over two years. The engineering design was completed within the various schedule milestones as required to make the project a success.

Results

The signature feature of this project was the conversion of the 60-year old truck route thoroughfare  hrough a residential area to a residential street. The old 51 ft. wide asphalt roadway was converted to a concrete roadway with two 11 ft. travel lanes flanked with two 5 ft. bike lanes.

Included in the design was a number of traffic-calming features to make this roadway a pedestrian-friendly, neighborhood street.

The resulting curvilinear design, with four chicanes (small traffic-calming islands), bike lanes, and pedestrian crossings resulted in the selection as national "Finalist" award for Excellence in Concrete Pavement from the American Concrete Pavement Association.