2023 Freetown DAT Report - Flipbook - Page 25
Freetown DAT
surface transit remains an essential and present
component that must be improved to bring riders and
reduce car and taxi trips on the congested corridor.
Fortunately, Bai Bureh Road is very wide, and its
median is an easy opportunity to install a separated
busway to service SRLA and other buses at low cost.
This improvement can help the transit priority corridor
into downtown and should also extend east as far as
possible—potentially becoming the spine of a future
bus rapid transit (BRT) system. This busway can evolve
incrementally, starting as a single-lane facility hosting
buses inbound in the morning and outbound in the
evening, with opposite direction buses continuing to
operate in mixed traffic as they do today. This requires
removing only the median without any impact to traffic
capacity. Eventual reconstruction into a two-way facility
is recommended, but curb-lane parking would need to
be removed to maintain traffic capacity.
At intersections like Ferry Road where Bai Bureh widens
to accommodate a turn lane, boarding platforms can
be installed in the turn lane space with supportive
crosswalks to each side of the street (parking may need
to be cleared for a short distance if turn volumes do
indeed need to maintain a turn lane). In single-lane
configuration, morning inbound platforms would be
on one side of intersections while afternoon outbound
platforms would be on the other side of intersections.
Kissy Junction’s 10-minute walkshed focuses on a wealth of intermodal opportunities while capturing notable destinations like the
Polytechnic University.
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