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Eau Claire Downtown Street Design

The City of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has dedicated considerable time and resources to enhancing its downtown area. The City retained Ayres to assist with one portion of downtown, where the goal is to make the area more pedestrian friendly, to calm traffic, and to install elements that complement the downtown’s older architecture. The project also… Read More »

Sheboygan Safe Routes to School

Our team designed pedestrian safety improvements and traffic calming measures for 12 schools, the YMCA, and the surrounding neighborhoods in a project completed for the City of Sheboygan and Sheboygan County. Design elements included intersection bumpouts, raised pedestrian crossings, traffic circles, flashing speed monitors, and traffic islands. We worked closely with elected officials, Wisconsin Department… Read More »

Traffic Calming Case Study

North 103rd and 104th Streets serve as neighborhood streets and provide a direct connection between Bluemound Road and Watertown Plank Road. It was observed that these streets often served as cut-through routes between Bluemound Road and Watertown Plank Road when traffic diverts to avoid congestion on Bluemound Road or Watertown Plank Road. This cut-through traffic… Read More »