Betton Road is a heavily traveled roadway that joins Centerville Road and Thomasville Road in Tallahassee. Betton Road is a road near the town’s main hospital and is in the center of a neighborhood and park. This makes the road unique due to its various uses. Due to the amount use, it has worn and come to the end of its service life. Our project rehabilitates the road and adds pedestrian enhancement.
Since the road is heavily traveled and embedded in an urban community, this provided us with a unique task, making this a little bit more complicated than a normal rehabilitation project. Given the condition of the road we decided to do a full rehabilitation down to the subgrade layer. When fully redoing a road, the drainage needs to be considered. Betton Road had some drainage problems around Hickory Avenue that we fixed with a new curb and gutter.
To increase pedestrian safety we added a pedestrian crosswalk north of Lee Avenue. We also redesigned the existing crosswalk at Trescott Drive. We used traffic calming devices including decreasing the widths of the lanes from 12' to 10', accomplished by increasing the width of the sod between the sidewalk and gutter. After the rehabilitation, drainage improvements and pedestrian enhancement, Betton Road is safer for drivers and pedestrians.
Dylan Butterfield, Max Carr, Fernando Guerra, Jeffrey Huynh, Julian Mirabal
Sean Martin, Ph.D., PE, FRSE and Jeffrey Farner, Ph.D.
Eutaw, Inc.; Lane P. Lucas, P.E.
Spring