Months after a car crash that killed two pedestrians on Frazier Avenue, the city of Chattanooga, with the help of city planner and viral TED Talk speaker Jeff Speck, drew up a redesign of the roadway in an effort to make it safer.
During a presentation Speck gave Thursday to a few dozen residents in Chattanooga, he said the city could make Frazier safer with a cheap alternative to a complete rebuild: paint.
“When you have a limited amount of money to spend, you can restripe the whole street for the price of rebuilding one block,” Speck said. “I’m always telling communities, ‘Don’t rebuild, restripe.'”
And restriping Frazier Avenue from a four-lane road with limited parking and no bike lanes to a largely two-lane thoroughfare with more parking and cyclist paths throughout is what the city plans to do by the end of July.