Aloha Streets:

Complete Streets

on Kaua’i

Pro Walk

Pro Bike

Pro Place

Pittsburgh – 2014

Michael Moule, PE, Chief Engineer Kaua‘i County Public Works Department

Kaua‘i’s Complete Streets Story

• Get Fit Kaua’i Built Environment Task Force

– Living Pathways Conference with Mark Fenton (October 2009)

• Committed Mayor and Department Heads

• Complete Streets resolution passed in September 2010

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Built Environment Task Force Members

A Complete Streets Blitz!

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Public Workshop,

Paul Zykofsky

April 2011

Walk Audit Training

Dan Burden

April 2012

Policy Training

Paul Zykofsky, Kristen Bennett &

Tom von Schrader

April 2011

Complete Streets Implementation Workshop

Michael Moule

October 2011

Complete Streets Implementation II,

Gary Toth

September 2012

Poipu Road Charrette Training

Dan Burden and Michael Moule

May 2013

The Initial Implementation Plan

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Pass Complete Streets Resolution in Council

Planning Department Public Works

ID changes to Zoning Ordinance

ID changes to Subdivision Ordinance

Include CS principles in Plan Updates

Review Statewide Complete Streets Taskforce Report

Identify needed changes to roadway standards

Adopt new roadway standards

Chapter 8 Amendments

Chapter 9 Amendments

Chapter 10 Amendments

The implementation plan evolved…

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Pass Complete Streets Resolution in Council

Planning Department Public Works

Improve inter-parcel connections

Strengthen sidewalk requirements.

CZO (Zoning Code) Subdivision Ordinance

Bicycle Parking requirement or bonus

Shorten minimum block length.

Improve requirement for transit facilities

Require bicycle facilities

Consider maximum parking requirement, instead of mimimum.

Discourage cul-de-sacs

Complete Streets Evaluation Checklist

Six-Year CIP

Mayor’s Office

Updated Roadway Standards

Retrofit Projects

Safe Routes to School Retrofits

Housing Agency

Fire Department

Transportation

Development Plan Updates – Transportation Element

General Plan Update – Transportation Element

Multi-modal Land Transportation Plan

CIP Manager

Internal Complete Streets Working Group

Pilot Projects

Get Fit Kaua’i Built Environment Task Force

Monitor progress/Council Update

Performance Measures Reporting

New Transportation Planner Position

Safe Routes to School Task Force

Holo Holo 2020 Vision

Capital Projects

Major Road Improvements

Resurfacing

“Road Diets” or “Rightsizing”

Traffic Calming

Staff Training and Public Outreach

Updating Road Design Manual

• LA County Living Streets Manual is the template.

• Internal working group with Public Works, Planning, Housing and Transportation.

• Draft mostly complete; working to finalize it now (adding graphics)

• Next step will be to modify standard drawings

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Updating Street Cross Sections

• Functional Classification – Existing: based on traditional functional class

– Proposed: developed for proposed new typologies

• Roadway and Right-of-Way Width – Existing: Widths specified, without regard to cross sectional elements

– Proposed:

• Widths specified for each cross sectional element

• Sum to determine roadway and right-of-way width

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Existing Cross Sections – Rural

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Innovative and Inexpensive Pilot Projects

• Waikomo Road

• Umi Street

• Nuhou/Kaneka

• Ahukini Street (HDOT)

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Waikomo Road

• 18’ to 24’ existing pavement, no sidewalks

• Restripe to add pedestrian path on one side

• Implementation within the next several months

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LEGEND Section A 24 FT Two Way

Section B 18 FT Two Way Section C 18 FT One Way

Waikomo Road Safe Route

Section A

SECTION C (Facing East)

Koloa Elementary

SECTION B Weliweli to Kapau (Facing West)

Koloa Elementary

Po’ipu/Waikomo Intersection

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Umi Street

• Two-lane street with parking – wide lanes

• Restripe for bike lanes and back-in diagonal parking

• Implementation within the next few months

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Nuhou Street and Kaneka Street

• Four lane roads in residential and new commercial area (at middle school)

• 4-lane to 3-lane “road diet” proposed

• Roundabout currently being installed by developer

• Restripe by County to follow next spring

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Ahukini Street and Kuhio Highway Resurfacing Projects (HDOT)

• Ahukini Street from Kuhio Hwy to Kapule Hwy

– County staff asked HDOT to add bike lanes as part of resurfacing

– HDOT didn’t mark bike lanes, but they widened the paved shoulders to a minimum of 5 feet on each side

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Ahukini Street

Civic Center Elem. School

Road Retrofits/Reconstruction

• Hardy Street

– Eiwa Street

• Puhi Road

• Hanapēpē Road

• Poipu Road

• Kawaihau Road

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Hardy Street

• ~$8,000,000 dollar Complete Streets capital project (Federal Aid funding)

• Implementation of Civic Center Master Plan

• Part of the Mayor’s Holo Holo 2020 Initiative

• New bike lanes; improved sidewalks and crossings; roundabout

• Design-Build project

• Construction started this week

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Eiwa Street

• Transit Center on Hardy Street was problematic for redesign

• Solution: Move transit center to Eiwa Street

• Build as part of Hardy Street project

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Puhi Road

• Federal Aid pavement reconstruction project

• Heavy truck traffic, two existing 12’ lanes

• Initial design didn’t include Complete Streets features

• Quickly redesigned in the past several months

• Construction to start in summer 2014

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Puhi Road

Concrete Sidewalk Parallel Parking Bike Lane

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Puhi Road

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Concrete Sidewalk Parallel Parking Bike Lane

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Concrete Sidewalk Parallel Parking Bike Lane

Hanapepe Road • Resurfacing project reprogrammed as Complete

Streets Project

• Existing sidewalks inconsistent

• Design charrette held two weeks ago

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Hanapepe Road Design Charrette

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Hanapepe Road Concept

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Hanapepe Road Concept

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Poipu Road

• Charrette held in May 2013 (in part as charrette training for staff)

• Project Added to STIP/CIP

• Bicycle lanes and sidewalks

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Kawaihau Road and vicinity

• Safe Routes to School – Kapaa Elementary School

– Kapaa High School

– Saint Catherine School (private)

• Held charrette-style workshop to identify needs

• Current product: brochure showing short-, mid-, and long-term recommendations

• Next steps: Implement recommendations

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MAHALO!

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For more information: Michael Moule, PE Chief of Engineering Kaua‘i County Public Works mmoule@Kaua‘i.gov Lee Steinmetz Transportation Planner Kaua‘i County Planning Department lsteinmetz@Kaua‘i.gov