The Florida Department of Transportation is getting ready to implement, with the City of Orlando, the final design for the Robinson Street Corridor in downtown Orlando.
City Council will vote to support a resolution on Monday, October 19 to finalize the plan to redesign the Robinson Street corridor between downtown Orlando and the Milk District.
A corridor study was completed in May 2017 that sourced public opinions and applied Complete Streets principles to try to improve the pedestrian safety and comfort while also accommodating the needs for increased safety of bicyclists and vehicles, guided by FDOT, City of Orlando, MetroPlan Orlando, and LYNX.
The conceptual design process resulted in a plan that converts the current four-lane road to a three-lane corridor with section and spot medians and conversion of the southernmost travel lane into a two-way cycle track and shared-use path between Garland and Hyer avenues, with the addition of permanent on-street parking spaces.
Other plans call for the addition of bicycle signals at Garland Avenue, Orange Avenue, Magnolia Avenue, and Rosalind Avenue, and the restriction of right turns on red lights at Orange Avenue.
A public timeline for the project has not been released at this time but will likely be timed to take place with the regular resurfacing work of the street in the next few years.
This project will also tie in with the recently announced Master Plan initiative for Lake Eola Park.
I cannot believe they are still planning to make robinson st into a 2 lane st. Sure lets aprove more high rise housing. Makes no differnce if people can not hardly move on these streets.
Very excited about the Robinson Street Plan. I drive to work from Bumby all the way past Orange Avenue and it isn’t uncommon to see cars flying by at least 50+mph. This will make it much safer for Howard Students (saw a little fellow hit once and when he hit the ground he had an obvious compound fracture, terrible), people going to the park and anyone trying to venture across Robinson. Parking anywhere downtown is a huge issue as well as the homeless. I have avoided the park for years because of the homeless and because of a news article saying all of the security cameras around the park were not functioning!! Really?? Didn’t feel safe after that. Downtown still has a bad rep when it comes to crimes and most people I know get out before dark. My office is right on Robinson but I would never leave my car and walk after dark. I have to keep my office door locked, as do most others because of the riff raff wondering through town. Bad situation.
Where is the current traffic on Robinson going?Livingston St, Amelia through what will no longer b neighborhood streets. You will ruin the ambiance of Lake Eola historic district.
We live in a country where the majority of the population drives automobiles. You are reducing lanes for cars to accommodate bicycles, this is not a Scandinavian country.