Portugal Cove – St. Philip’s Street Classification
Location: Portugal Cove, NL, Canada
Client: Portugal Cove – St. Philips
Duration: 2016
Key Staff: Michael MacDonald, Robin King, Courtney McCarthy, Florence Allaire
Project Description
In 2016, Harbourside Transportation Consultants conducted a comprehensive traffic and roadway study in the Town of Portugal Cove, St. Philip’s. In gathering this information, the Town’s goal was to have Harbourside re-classify streets as necessary and create a new town map to illustrate the street reclassifications. HTC gathered all necessary data and roadway characteristics throughout the Town of Portugal Cove, including average daily traffic volumes and 85th percentile speed information for roads likely to be reclassified.
Harbourside’s Role
Using thorough data analysis, recommendations were made to reclassify the streets in question. Harbourside, as expert transportation engineers, also determined other characteristics of Town roadways used in the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) street classification system. These included:
Traffic service function.
Land service/access.
Traffic volumes.
Date of traffic count.
Posted speed limits (The NL Highway Traffic Act states that if not otherwise posted, the speed limit is of 50 km/hr on through settlements and 80km/hr on paved highways)
Accommodation of cyclists.
Accommodation of pedestrians.
Parking.
Right-of-way (not populated).
Owner.
Once the information was assembled, it was used to classify each street in the Town accordingly. Recommendations were made to re-classify streets as necessary and a revitalized town map was created to illustrate the street reclassifications. The map includes a list of streets with a grid reference to easily locate individual streets.
Social Impact
The reclassification of streets in Portugal Cove represents a modernization for the town’s transportation infrastructure. Going hand-in-hand with the previous traffic study, and traffic calming policy, the street reclassification will help in improving safety and traffic flow within the community.