102134 | Henry Ave Corridor Safety Improvements, Phase 2 (Philadelphia City)

This 1.6 mile corridor consists of Henry Avenue from Abbotsford Avenue to Barnes Street in Philadelphia's East Fallsand Wissahickon neighborhoods. Improvements will include: "hand/man" pedestrian signals at all locations; installing centerline rumble strips at all painted median locations where appropriate; performing selective tree removal where appropriate based on crash cluster information and will consider removing all trees from curbed median areas; installing reflective pavement markers to better delineate the travel lanes along the median and in between lanes; and installing enhanced signage. Many of the improvements to this corridor will not only improve safety and potentially reduce crashes but will also address congestion, Geometric changes to a traffic island to reduce the turning radius for vehicles, Left turn lanes, A raised intersection, Bumpouts and medians, including sidewalk and ADA ramps, Roadway lighting, A shared-use bicycle and pedestrian path, High-friction surface treatments on horizontal curves, Pavement markings and signing, speed reduction pavement markings, Electronic speed feedback signs, Delineators and updated guide rail, Philadelphia Water Department drainage and water relocation, Interconnected and coordinated traffic signals, and Upgraded traffic signals including new mast arms, signal heads, pre-emption equipment, timing optimization with video and radar detection, and the addition of pedestrian countdown timers and accessible signals.
The anticipated benefits of this project are to: reduce the frequency of both reportable and non-reportable crashes that are occurring at the signalized intersections and mid-block locations; increase capacity at the signalized intersection for the daily peak travel periods; provide signal coordination to better manage traffic flows during peak periods and incidents; reduce the severity of the reportable crashes; and mitigate the crash clusters. The corridor improvements have been broken out to 2 separate projects. See companion project MPMS #80104. PE will be funded and completed under MPMS# 80104.