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Wayfinding System
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A 2006 study of Charlotte’s uptown area found some ideas that would benefit visitors and residents. Focus group meetings with both occasional and frequent visitors to Uptown identified the same solutions. The key issues and needs were:
- Clear, consistent signage to help customers and visitors to Uptown more easily find attractions, sports venues, and cultural districts.
- Improved signage to destinations and parking to save motorists’ time and fuel.
- Better directions for commuters and visitors to available parking to reduce confusion and frustration. Enhanced pedestrian signage to encourage “parking once” and finding uptown destinations as a pedestrian by walking.
- Signage for drivers to find their way back to I-277 or I-77 when leaving Uptown.
The resulting Center City Transportation Plan included policies to address these needs, create a collaborative parking management system and implement a unique Wayfinding and Parking Guidance System.
Starting September 30, 2011 the CDOT will begin testing Uptown Wayfinding and Parking Guidance System signs. All signs should be activated within 45 days with testing likely to extend beyond this period. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the system should become fully operational by the first of the year.
The Wayfinding and Parking Guidance System signs include a distinctive “P” parking sign with a blue lighted background, and are intended to provide visitors and residents real time parking information at parking decks. In addition, five Gateway signs entering Uptown from the freeway system will start operations and include a variety of messages. Initial testing will show ‘Sign Under Test’.
Funded by Federal initiatives to reduce congestion, improve air quality and increase energy efficiency, the grants totaled $3.2 million. Signage includes pedestrian, freeway, on-street directional, dynamic gateway and parking guidance, and egress signs. Installation began in 2007 and is scheduled to be complete in 2011.
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