Trinity Triangle Construction Will Close Portions of East Howard and PATH Trail For Next 18-24 Months
Decatur Metro | September 26, 2014 | 5:44 pmFrom Decatur’s Casie Yoder…
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 E. Ponce de Leon Avenue.
· The alternate pedestrian routes for the E. Howard will be on Church Street and E. College Street.
For more information, please contact the City of Decatur, Design, Environment & Construction Division at 678.553.6570.
The entirety of E Howard from Trinity to Sycamore Place, or just some blocks?
It sounds like, and my guess is from having walked and run by there many times, they will close E. Howard from Church to Trinity. Hopefully that means the pedestrian tunnel will still be open, just the sidewalk/PATH/road (E. Howard) between there and Trinity will be affected. And no crosswalk between Dairy Queen and the Fire Station.
Duhhh ! Yeah, you’re right. I was focusing on the other end of E Howard.
Does anyone know for sure how much of it is going to be closed? I live on the one-way stretch of North Candler, between E Howard and Sycamore. There’s a gravel road cut through one street over, but giving people directions to my place is gonna be way more complicated…
I can’t imagine why it will affect Howard east of Trinity (from Kimball House to Carpe Diem)
This is going to create a HUGE bottleneck of traffic every morning through Decatur and cause extra congestion along College Avenue.
Thanks for posting DM. That portion of Trinity and E. Howard is the way our whole neighborhood Glennwood Estates walks/bike to Renrfore and this is the first I have heard of this. They have a crossing guard at Trinity at that crossing. I would have hoped to have heard this from Safe Routes or CSD a long tme ago. I guess it will have to go down tomorrow. Should be interesting.
From the CSD connections email: “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.”
This is the side of the street the crosswalk across college leads to at the S.Candler/Trinity and College intersection, which will make pedestrian travel through that intersection more dangerous than it already is.
Monday, Sept 29 update–they are serious about closing both the Path and E. Howard from Trinity to Church St.–I was riding on the Path this morning and some construction guy pulled up in a truck and told me the Path was closed and for me to get off it asap.
Just for information sake, does the construction company pay the city for closing roads?