Improving Parking and Traffic Flow at St.FX Campus: Final Report Findings
Focused on addressing the issues of insufficient parking, pedestrian safety, and optimal traffic flow at St.FX Campus. The report identified problem areas, brainstormed ideas, refined solutions, and considered options like paid parking for potential implementation. Detailed analyses were conducted to enhance student and staff satisfaction while prioritizing community safety.
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St.FX Campus Parking & Traffic Flow Final Report Shawn Kieley, Lucy Gillis, Nicole Cameron & Cameron Brow
Overview 1. Problem & Need 2. Summary of ideas considered 3. Analyses conducted 4. Project outcome - Our Solutions 5. Finishing Remarks 6. Questions/Comments
St.FX Campus Problem: - Insufficient parking on a daily basis. - Pedestrian and vehicular traffic along Martha Drive and Notre Dame. Need: - - Raise student and staff satisfaction. Improve the safety of our St.FX community.
Summary - Focused on pedestrian safety, providing efficient parking and optimal traffic flow - Identified 8 different problem areas on campus - Brainstormed preliminary ideas - Refined preliminary ideas - Looked at the option of paid parking
Refining Preliminary Ideas - (2) Memorial Field - Green Space - (8) Founders Walk - limiting exits and entrances to campus - (7) Mount Saint Bernard - too broad - (1) West Street Apartments - pedestrian safety
Pay Parking Parking lots are costly. A typical parking space costs $1,000 to $5,000 to construct. Two Options: 1) Gated parking 2) Luke II
Option 1- Gated Parking - An entry and exit bin and gate will operate to allow access through the use of proximity cards or I.D. - Exit station erected to allow multiple forms of payment. Drawing courtesy of B. Doiron & FM
Option 2- LUKE II - Will take a wide variety of payments (coins, bills, credit cards, debit cards, Pay-by-Phone) Reduces the congestion that a gate would cause at entry and exits locations One station in every parking lot - - Case Study (Texas University) - LUKE II - 69 stalls generated $207,000 - Passes - 580 parking stalls that generated $150,000
Analyses Conducted - We looked at locations on campus where pedestrian traffic interefered with vehicular traffic. - Martha Drive and Notre Dame Avenue were determined to be main problem areas - We looked at the economic feasibility of both the gated parking and of using the LUKE II system. - LUKE II was determined to be the more profitable of the two options.
Solution: Governors Hall - Available parking was increased from 87 to 164 spaces. - Makes up for the loss of 60 parking spaces at Nicholson Hall. - Added parking was kept at edge of campus, deterring vehicles from travelling through campus core to find parking.
Solution: Martha Drive - Sidewalk was added alongside Martha Drive by the PSC. - Connects to Chapel Square, giving residents of MacKinnon Hall a direct route to Bloomfield - Students will no longer be walking in the street
Solution: Martha Drive - Bollards - 3 hydraulic bollards were chosen to be added at intersection next to Mini Moe s. They could be remotely risen and dropped to allow for passage of service vehicles. Added inconvenience would deter traffic from trying to drive through campus. Would address the safety problem on campus, as the crosswalk would be just in front of the bollards - - -
Solution: Notre Dame Avenue - Sidewalks were added between Marguerite Hall, Lane Hall and JBB. - Students would no longer need to cross at blind crest between St. Ninians and Marguerite.
Notre Dame Continued... - Addition of speed bumps was considered, but dropped due to use of the road by service vehicles, emergency vehicles and bus service. Rerouting the road behind Lane Hall was possible, but couldn t be justified as the existing road must remain for emergency vehicles so the added road wouldn t be used. Rerouting behind JBB wouldn t be possible due to land owned by Highland Crest Homes. - - Contour Map of land around Lane Hall (Courtesy of B. Doiron)
Solution: LUKE II - Paid parking was selected to be implemented at the lower Bloomfield parking lot, Nicholson Tower, Chapel Square, Lane Hall and the Millenium Centre parking lot. Parking would be charged at a rate of $1/hour, capping at $5 for the day. Parking for Chapel Square at a rate of $1.50/hour capping at $7.50/day -
Project Outcome Final recommendations for our project were: - 77 parking spaces were added to the Governor s Hall overnight parking lot. Sidewalks were added along Martha Drive. Sidewalks were added on Notre Dame. LUKE II paid parking system was selected for use in Bloomfield, Nicholson Tower, Millenium Centre, Lane Hall and Chapel Square parking lots. - - -
Costs Governor s Parking Lot
Costs continued Parking lot Lane= $ $647,406 Sidewalk Martha=$ 55,072 Sidewalk 2 Martha= $ 45833.80 Hydraulic bollards= $ 6,500 Sidewalk Notre Dame= $59,840.00 Total Costs= $1,070,611.11 First-Year profit of paid parking $1,046,320.50
Lessons Learned - We had a lot ideas to begin with, and we found that it was hard to focus on all of them individually. - Opinions and discussions had to be made first. (Student views, residential area, staff & St.FX.) - How to contact professional engineers, and what the right questions were to ask.
Acknowledgments We would like to thank: Dr. Emeka Oguejiofor, P.Eng Paul Dorion, P.Eng Brian Dorion, P.Eng Robert Proctor, Head of Security StFX Hilda Dunnewold, P.Eng David MacKenzie, Vice President of Operations at St. Martha s Hospital Angus Gillis, P.Eng Frank Comeau, P.Eng
