Let's Make Victory Boulevard Safer for Everyone

Victory Boulevard Complete Streets Project

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Project Overview

The City of Glendale is working toward active transportation solutions that prioritize safety, add connectivity between the Burbank Channel Bikeway, Glendale Narrows Riverwalk, the future Garden River Bridge and the Los Angeles River Bike Path to enhance accessibility and promote regional active transportation network connections.

The City of Glendale conducted a feasibility study of Victory Boulevard that identified four potential alternatives to improve safety for cyclists and pedestrians, while maintaining traffic flow. The four alternatives will be presented to the community during this outreach effort and aim to enhance the transportation infrastructure of Glendale for all users.

The City and its external consultant team evaluated various factors in developing the four alternatives, such as traffic collision records, traffic flow, walking and biking features, travel lane widths, intersection turn lanes, parking preservation, and connectivity to adjacent regional active transportation facilities for pedestrians and cyclists.

*Project Area Map (click on the map to view a larger version)*

Alternatives 1, 2 and 3 include lane reductions and Alternative 4 maintains the current four-lane configuration. Road repurposing, also known as lane reduction, is a strategic change that aims to make roads safer, calm traffic, and more accessible for all road users. This design is most effective on roads that have, or are expected to have, an average daily traffic of less than 20,000 vehicles.

The city and its consultant team considered the following components when developing the four alternatives.

Road repurposing benefits:

Increased safety
Average 30 percent reduction in total collisions
Balanced infrastructure for all modes of travel
Quality of life improvements for all users

Lane reduction configuration

Community Meeting

The City of Glendale hosted a community meeting for this project on Thursday, April 18, 2024 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Glendale. To review materials from that meeting, select the links below.

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Existing Conditions

Victory Boulevard in Glendale is presently a four-lane throughfare with a center two-way left turn lane and on-street parking.

Existing Lane Configurations

Roadway Layout: Victory Boulevard has two lanes in each direction, a center median for left turns, and on-street parking.
Variable Road Width: The width of the road varies between 95 and 100 feet along different segments.
Sidewalk Width Differences: The variation in road width is due to different sidewalk widths along the corridor.
Cross-section Details: The road includes outside vehicle lanes (with parking), inside travel lanes, and a central median/left-turn lane.

Project Alternatives

Four alternatives are under consideration along Victory Boulevard, from Riverside Drive/Sonora Avenue to City’s northern boundary near Allen Avenue.

Alternative 1

Repurpose one travel lane in each direction and add Class II Bike Lanes (designated lanes for biking along streets marked by pavement striping and signage).

Benefits

Existing parking supply maintained
Marked bike lane enhances safety for cyclists
Buffer created between bike lane and parked cars

Disadvantages

Requires the removal of one vehicle lane in each direction, and may result in potential traffic diversions to neighboring streets

Alternative 2

Repurpose one travel lane in each direction and add Class IV protected bike lanes (separated bike lanes that provide a physical barrier between the bicycle and traffic lanes).

Benefits

High level of protection for cyclists and no interaction with vehicles that are parking
Physical barrier protects cyclists from moving traffic

Disadvantages

Requires the removal of one vehicle lane in each direction, resulting in potential traffic diversions to neighboring streets

Alternative 3

Repurpose one travel lane in each direction and add two-way cycle track (physically separated cycle tracks that allow movement in both directions).

Benefits

Highest level of protection for cyclists, with the potential to attract riders with wider range of skills and abilities
Reduced conflict with parallel parking vehicles
Improved connection to Burbank Channel Bikeway

Disadvantages

Cars going in/out of driveways would need to cross cycle track and look both ways
Requires the removal of one vehicle lane in each direction, resulting in potential traffic diversions to neighboring streets

Alternative 4

Alternative 4 proposes maintaining the four vehicle lanes and the center two-way left-turn lane on Victory Boulevard and adding a separated or protected bike lane (Class IV) on each side of the street. The roadway would be widened, and concrete islands built around existing power poles, slightly reducing on-street parking at the power pole locations.

Benefits

High level of protection for cyclists
Improved connection to Burbank Channel Bikeway
No impacts to street cleaning
Curb lane and parking configuration similar to existing conditions

Disadvantages

Requires sidewalk reduction
Some loss of parking
Requires new driveway ramps
New curb and gutter, street light, and fire hydrant relocation would be required