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of the street are not conducive to active retail and other pedestrian friendly uses because there is very little area for sidewalks and in most places, no separation between the relatively narrow sidewalks and the street. Furthermore, the gateway potential of Franklin Boulevard is not emphasized in the current configuration. Designing streets only for rapid movement of cars negatively impacts many other goals for our streets and communities, especially in consideration of sustainability aspirations. The transportation realm represents one of the largest collective amounts of publicly owned land in the Wal- nut Station area. The public input received called for using these lands as part of the overall transportation and planning solution, rather than to accommodate only one mode of transportation. In order to achieve the vision for the Walnut Station area, Franklin Boulevard must become more than just a conduit for moving traffic through the area. A primary goal of this project is to provide additional, safer paths for pedestrians and bicyclists to move through the area and to cross Franklin Boulevard safely, while maintaining or improving the functionality of Franklin Boulevard as a major arterial. Information from Lane Transit District and City Public Works staff indi- cated that the provision for a second EmX lane was needed to support the regional EmX system. A multiway boulevard design was chosen for Franklin Boulevard primarily because it creates an environment conducive to encouraging pedestrian friendly mixed -use development along the street. The multiway boulevard creates a different context by separating the through traffic from the adjacent land uses through the construction of planted medians, access lanes and on street parking that serves those land uses. For the pedestrians who are walking along the sidewalks adjacent to the access lanes, it feels more they are walking along a main street than a busy arterial. The following photo- simulations show how con- r s ,Y RIM 'i E it a` iC � sa+.'v•... ...Eta. .;•:r=.. ':;�- .•�"'.:�;�:. �:= :: -:_: ;:: �; • J3 r=� n vr� ''ins •i`..:• 3 •S :jj. e R'• C" . e .d. - Yo- �r3.: •, y �.,�,� �F <" r ,tC " ",�.. •' i�� .`tea F 111 � "tf�l• %'�k •11• tit ?';�y. - T s` �r . R r..•• - 1 'fix .SA.. �'•1 f.. � l^• ^� ..0 is 777 5� yy i .z. sD ", ��A:l. .�•:..;�. ^:: '. '.. �. ..: L5 •:4 :g:::is: :..e " +:.F.C. ". .... .. .. ... . " .. .... .." .... .. -. ..... .. �� J.iC.,�.'i..... `:�`r..� - :._. ..,.. . ,v ,.>r?:.• e'. "1' �;�� ; fit'. • •' €� z S Y ] 1.. _ L S• i•S'- . r. F- - �1 �