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Entry Island <br /> (Neighborhood <br /> Identification Island) <br /> <br /> Description: <br /> A raised island in the center of a two-way street <br /> adjacent to an intersection at the perimeter of a <br /> neighborhood that identifies the entrance <br /> <br />Application: <br /> Placed in a roadway to define the entry to a residential area and/or to narrow each direction of travel <br /> and interrupt sight distance along the center of the roadway <br /> <br />Advantages: · Notifies motorists of change in roadway character <br /> · Helps slow traffic <br /> · Opportunity for landscaping and/or monumentation for aesthetic improvements <br /> · May discourage cut -tkrough traffic <br /> <br /> Disadvantages: · Need for maintenance (and irrigation) <br /> · May necessitate removal of parking <br /> · Creates physical obstruction in the travel-way <br /> <br /> Variations: <br /> · Can incorporate neighborhood identification signing and monumentation <br /> <br /> Special Considerations: <br /> · Care should be taken not to restrict pedestrian visibility at adjacent crosswalk <br /> <br /> Cost: <br /> · Low to medium cost to install, landscape and maintain <br /> <br />Page <br /> <br /> <br />