Westbound traffic on 20th Street, near left, approaches waiting southbound traffic on Keith Street in Cleveland, Tenn. The city is seeking a TDOT grant to create an improved bike and pedestrian crossing at the intersection. Keith Street is also known as U.S. Highway 11.CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Cleveland planners have recommended the city seek a Tennessee Department of Transportation multimodal grant to fund a pedestrian and bicycle crossing near the 20th Street intersection with Keith Street, which forms part of the Highway 11 corridor.
If it succeeds, the city could receive up to $1 million for the project, said Greg Thomas, Cleveland planning director and Cleveland Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization coordinator. The grant requires a 5 percent local government match.
The proposed Keith Street crossing at 20th Street is part of a larger vision to improve pedestrian and bicycle access along the intersecting Keith Street and 25th Street/State Route 60 corridors and the neighborhoods located southwest of the major intersection, Thomas stated in an email.
“The crossing at 20th Street would involve installation of pedestrian signals and a crosswalk,” he said. “It will be important to link the path from Peerless Road [which intersects 25th Street to the west] to the 20th Street crossing utilizing cross streets south of 25th Street where designing safe bicycle and pedestrian access would be difficult.”
Planners also discussed the possibility of incorporating an underground crossing.