Pump the Breaks on Fairview Road

Act now or hold our peace for years!

The Current Plan

The City Of Asheville is slated to repave Fairview Road this spring and has no plans to include bike and pedestrian safety features!

As our neighborhood grows so too does our speeding and reckless driving problems.

The city must be implored to follow its own policy and rebuild the road as a Complete Street

A Car Centric Road

The current road design for Fairview Road is car centric, meaning it prioritizes motorists at expense of all other users. While speed limits are set to 25 MPH, APD continues to deprioritized enforcement while they experience staffing shortages. With this in mind Engineered solutions must be considered to preserve neighborhood safety.

Menu of Options not on the Table for the Spring Repave Project

The City of Asheville will be repaving Fairview Road as part of its routine maintenance cycle that occurs once every 15 years per corridor.

The current project does not include:

NO Additional Striping for Bikes
NO Speed Cushions along the speediest straightaways
NO Cross Walks
NO Sidewalk Bump outs
NO Vegetative Islands

Examples found in other AVL neighborhoods

Here are a few examples of the menu options listed above. These are all found in other neighborhoods

(This marking in the street is called a "Sharrow" and indicates to motorists that the road must be shared with cyclists. They are used when the road is too narrow to cut in bike lanes)

(These are known as Pedestrian Rapid Flash Beacons and are located all across Asheville. When a pedestrian presses the button bright lights flash and cars must yield at the crossing) Some great examples can be found along Riverside Drive in the River Arts District).

(This type of bifurcated speed cushion has been used across Asheville including on Stoner Road here in Oakley. They slow traffic while also allowing for fire trucks to maneuver around them during emergencies)

(This photo of a vegetative island was taken at the intersection of Kenilworth Road and Normandy Road)