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• <br /> The Riverfront Development Circulation System <br /> Pathways to and through the Riverfront Development site, like the drainage configurations, create an <br /> organizing principle through which the project site may be understood. Access to the Riverfront <br /> Development is provided through a number of pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular connections. This <br /> section addresses the location and character of the off-site connections, the proposed access routes <br /> that provide fire and emergency access, and the trails, paths, and boardwalks that provide circulation <br /> internal to the site. <br /> Connections <br /> At the south end of the site, Lowell Riverfront Park has a street connection to the Lowell neighborhood <br /> via an at-grade crossing of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway mainline. Because the narrow <br /> street lacks a sidewalk, pedestrian access is challenging. Future street improvements such as <br /> sidewalks and bike lanes on Lenora Street and Lowell-Snohomish River Road would improve multi- <br /> modal access. Public comment on this project has favored improving connections at this and other <br /> locations across the site. <br /> North of Lowell Riverfront Park, a new "aqueduct" pedestrian bridge extends from Main Street across <br /> the BNSF tracks to property owned by the Washington State Department of Transportation. Several <br /> water quality and detention ponds have been constructed here, with gravel pedestrian paths encircling <br /> the ponds. The "aqueduct" crossing is so called because it carries channeled stormwater over the <br /> tracks, to a spillway on the other side. The stairs on the east end of the bridge do not provide a <br /> universally accessible route in the current configuration. <br /> At the north end of the neighborhood, the informal at-grade Lowell crossing of the BNSF railroad tracks <br /> is proposed to be replaced by a safe and accessible above-grade overpass. Of the options considered <br /> c . f -- r ,TRsoEv JUNCTION AVE <br /> nH- TRAIT.TO LOWELL PARK <br /> • y <br /> i..,_!'t t i <br /> a w � <br /> t ElEV <br /> .. .': a' 7•_ i;lir —'- -. <br /> - -— RAMP <br /> BMSF IMMUNE <br /> . +3 . - mqZE170./GC_E6SOAD -- — _ S <br /> t - _ <br /> OVERPASS @ ELEV.-44 <br /> The Lowell at-grade railroad crossing <br /> • <br /> r .. i... - lil LY` <br /> f... FRu YS41.Y . <br /> 11111 <br /> '531- I '.•_.. `� - - I 1 i1i <br /> I11iSL <br /> 3 d <br /> L - - "J•fi.Al=wire, <br /> • <br /> The WSDOT"aqueduct"overpass Lowell Crossing <br /> Rivelfront Developmeni.PulD is Amenities Master Plan 25 <br /> • <br /> 62 <br />