COLUMBIA — The Columbia City Council will vote Monday on whether to seek grant money to build medians on some parts of College Avenue.
While area schools are in session, there are more than 3,800 pedestrian crossings per day on College Avenue between University Avenue and Rollins Street, according to a report prepared by Tim Teddy, Columbia's planning and development director.
A majority of those crossings, more than 2,000 of them, are by jaywalkers, according to a report by consultants Crawford Bunte Brammeier, a firm that specializes in traffic engineering. City planners are trying to change that.
A proposal calls for building waist-high medians down the middle of College Avenue between University and Rollins to block jaywalkers from crossing.
“One of the points is to channel pedestrians to where drivers expect them,” said Mitch Skov, a planner in the city's Department of Planning and Development.
Channeling that flow would be two crosswalks, 15 to 20 feet wide, one between Wilson Avenue and Rosemary Lane and another about 50 feet north of Bouchelle Avenue.
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