Trinity Triangle Construction Street Closure To Affect Safe Routes to School

As some of you have already mentioned, the closure of East Howard between Church and McDonough will affect Safe Routes to School.  Here’s CSD’s release and a map above …

Construction on the Trinity Triangle project will impact Safe Routes to School. 

From the City of Decatur Design, Environment & Construction Division:

Trinity Triangle: Bike-Ped-Car Changes for September 29, 2014 until (possibly) Spring 2016.
Construction at Trinity and E. Howard will begin in full on Monday, September 29.

Here is what travelers need to know:

  • E. Howard will be closed for bike-ped-car traffic including the PATH trail for an 18-24 month period starting this weekend.
  • In addition, there will be no sidewalk service on the south side of Trinity Street between Church Street and E. Howard Avenue. For this reason, there will be no mid-block crossing on Trinity.

Alternate routes will be posted on the street this weekend. Here is a snapshot of those alternate routes:

  • The alternate PATH bike route will be on Church Street and Sycamore Street.
  • The alternate pedestrian routes for the E. Howard will be on Church Street and E. College Street.
    Please direct any questions to:

JOHN MAXIMUK, AICP
Director
City of Decatur Public Works Department
Design, Environment & Construction Division
(office) 678.553.6570
[email protected]
2635 Talley Street, P.O. Box 220, Decatur, GA 30031

How was the commute this morning?

15 thoughts on “Trinity Triangle Construction Street Closure To Affect Safe Routes to School”


  2. I note that the City of Atlanta is fairly aggressive about keeping streets and sidewalks open during construction, with some notable exceptions. I don’t understand why the City of Decatur allowed a contractor to close not only a street but two sidewalks. Was this really necessary?

    2. +1,000

      This closure of the PATH doesn’t make any sense. What is the driving cause to close the PATH? Is it being torn up for utility work beneath?

  4. Since East Howard is closed to traffic at the RR tracks as Trinity becomes Candler, will the stop light before the tracks for southbound cars be eliminated — or the timing at least changed?

    1. I doubt it. It stays red when the other one turns green to clear the tracks when a train is coming, so it has a function other than keeping Howard clear.
      Other than when a train is coming, it seems to be on the same timing.

  10. Where will we cross Trinity (to safely cross College Ave on the crosswalk) since there is no longer a crosswalk? I assume that the city of Decatur is not going to expect pedestrians to cross the RRtracks and College Ave on the side where there is not a marked crosswalk, so they are going to paint one there, right? No they aren’t. What? They are expecting people to walk an extra 3-4 blocks to either the Agnes Scott tunnel or to Columbia, which means more time is needed to get places which means people will stop walking and get in their cars. Because the car route is shorter than the walking route. What?! Really/?! If you want to walk, you have to go considerably farther than if you drive. Talk about not encouraging pedestrians…not being able to safely walk across the RRtracks at Trinity/Howard/Candler/College Ave until 2016 is ridiculous.

    1. If this morning is any indication, walking or driving through will be difficult. S.Candler was backed up past Kirk. S. McDonough was not as bad but still crawling–seemed to be due to construction on Trinity.

      You’d think these issues would have been thought about beforehand. I can be patient with sewer repairs and road and sidewalk repairs, but when private building projects close off sidewalks and streets (for up to 2 years!!!) it is infinitely more irritating to me.

    2. I suggest withholding outrage for 2-3 weeks. You’ll recall when they restriped W. Ponce from the Marlay up to Trinity, the result was a de facto clusterf**k. People were unimpressed, if not actively ticked off, and the city came out, evaluated what wasn’t working, and reconfigured.

      So long as you shoot city hall or your commissioner a note expressing, ahem, dissatisfaction, there’s a pretty good chance we’ll see this one reworked.

      1. I’d prefer to gripe here, thank you very much. How can I maintain my outrage if someone addresses the thing I’m outraged about?

  12. This area is already not the best pedestrian situation. I know there have been proposals over the years and there is complexity with multiple partners (county, railroad, city) but it’s really so sad how unpleasant our pedestrian situation is. I fear we compare ourselves to some sprawling exhurb and then celebrate how much better it is to walk around in Decatur instead of considering what it really means to be a pedestrian friendly community.

    2 years seems like enough time to phase in some more innovative or creative solutions to keep the walk ways open, or maybe even improved if there is no traffic during construction.

    I also hope that this 2 year building project also includes some amazing improvements to the pedestrian situation once the project is done.

  16. If we’re going to have to bike on Church between Twain’s and the tunnel for the next 18-24 months, I sure wish somebody would pave the darn street.

    1. It won’t get paved until the streetscape project is completed, which will be sometime next spring.

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