Woodbury Avenue Traffic Calming Project
Update, October 29, 2025)
As a follow up to the Parking and Traffic Safety Committee request to investigate other options for traffic calming measures, DPW staff has developed a revised traffic calming plan for Woodbury Avenue. The plan consists of “gateway treatments” at the intersections with Echo Avenue and with Rockingham Avenue. As currently proposed and shown on the plans (design A and design B), raised median islands would be constructed on Woodbury Avenue at each intersection. Crosswalks and tip down ramps would be modified to bring the crossings up to current standards, and a push button-activated Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon would be installed at the crosswalk at Echo Avenue. A multi-use path connection from Woodbury Avenue to the multi-use path off Rockingham Avenue would also be constructed at the Rockingham Avenue intersection, along with minor realignment of the Rockingham Avenue approach to its intersection with Woodbury Avenue. No other additional traffic calming measures are currently proposed along the remainder of Woodbury Avenue. These plans will be presented at the Parking and Traffic Safety Committee meeting for their consideration on November 6, 2025. Public comment is welcome.
Project Status:
The Department of Public Works held a public meeting on Tuesday, Nov 8, 2023 at New Franklin School and then prepared a revised plan for traffic-calming measures on Woodbury Avenue.
For the presentation from March 30, 2023, go to the meeting presentation.
For the presentation from the February 15, 2023 meeting, go to the meeting presentation.
Background:
The Woodbury Avenue neighborhood has requested traffic calming measures for the residential section of Woodbury Avenue between Market Street and Bartlett Street. City Staff presented revised conceptual plans to construct several speed cushions and median islands on Woodbury Avenue between Echo Avenue and Dennett Street to alter Woodbury Avenue’s current straight alignment, provide pedestrian crossing refuge areas and to slow vehicle speeds.
Project Description
At the June 2022 PTS meeting, the preliminary conceptual designs below were presented. These show proposed changes to the Woodbury Avenue intersections with Rockingham Avenue and Dennett Street. These traffic calming measures narrow the travel way at the entrances to the residential sections of Woodbury Avenue, alerting drivers of the change in street setting as they exit the Route 1 Bypass and Interstate 95. Additionally, the plan proposed median islands at the intersections to provide a safe refuge for pedestrians crossing Woodbury Avenue at these locations.
To reduce speeds along the section of Woodbury Avenue from Rockingham Avenue to Granite Street will require additional measures. The proposed traffic calming measures involve the installation of multiple speed cushions and two median islands along this section of Woodbury Avenue, which would break up the existing straight alignment of Woodbury Avenue. The median island may also incorporate a pedestrian crossing and flashing beacon, giving pedestrians refuge as they cross Woodbury Avenue.
Woodbury Ave./Bartlett St. Meeting Presentation (November 8, 2023)
Revised Project Plans (March 30, 2023)
Woodbury Avenue Project Overview (March 30, 2023)
Revised Project Plans (March 15, 2023)
Woodbury Pre Speed Cushion Speeds
RSG Woodbury Avenue Traffic Monitoring & Stop Control Analysis (2013)
