80104 | Henry Ave Corridor Safety Improvements, Phase 1 (Philadelphia City)

This 4.0 mile corridor consists of Henry Avenue from Lincoln Drive (near the Wissahickon Creek) to Port Royal Avenue through Philadelphia’s Roxborough neighborhood. 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.
The anticipated benefits of this project are to: reduce the frequency of both reportable and non-reportable crashes that is 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 #102134.