City of Deerfield Beach, Lane Elimination

CPC is honored to have assisted the City of Deerfield Beach with the NE 3rd Avenue project, which is a recipient of the 2022 Smart Growth Excellence Award. Under our Traffic Engineering Continuing Services Contract, CPC did an evaluation of the proposed lane elimination study and provided a recommendation to the City and Broward MPO, supporting the Complete Streets Initiative (CSI) for design and construction funding. The study evaluated the future traffic operations and capacity after eliminating one through lane in each direction of travel from 4-lane undivided (existing) to 2-lane undivided roadway (proposed) with a center 12’ wide two-way left turn lane (TWLTL) (see Figure 2), for the purpose of improving the existing sub-standard multi-modal facilities and improving safety to the pedestrians and bicyclists. CPC’s study confirmed that repurposing the lane to include this multi-modal will not degrade the traffic level of service of the 1-mile corridor or put undue demands on adjacent corridors due to traffic diversions.  CPC recommended the final roadway geometry within the existing 75’ right of way, to include two 11’ travel lanes, a 12’ TWLTL, continuous 7’ wide buffered bike lanes, a 6’ sidewalk on the west side, and an 8’ multi-use path on the east side.