Bitgaon elementary school located in Gwangmyeong city has safety issues in student’s commute to the school. The fundamental safety problems have been originated from its location decision when Gwangmyeong Rail Area Development was designed. Because ...
Bitgaon elementary school located in Gwangmyeong city has safety issues in student’s commute to the school. The fundamental safety problems have been originated from its location decision when Gwangmyeong Rail Area Development was designed. Because this elementary school was decided to located in the far periphery area of the development, students now have to walk across long distance including crossing large main road, on which the heaviest traffic volume flows every day in this area. Besides the problem of crossing a large road, the only access to the elementary school is located in a small 2 lane way, which is the main gate of the school. Thus all the walking students and pickup vehicles, buses from private learning institute after school gather in one spot at a similar time of the day. This generate serious transportation safety issues, especially pedestrian safety problem of elementary school children.
In order to solve the problem, an alternative access only for vehicles is proposed. The alternative access to the school for the vehicles is completely separated from the pedestrian route so that walking route for the students can be protected from the vehicle movement. In order to enhance crossing safety, road diet is proposed for the short term solution and a pedestrian deck is proposed in association with the redevelopment plan of parking lot B for the long term.