Bring Back Broad Street | Volkert Location: Mobile, AL Client: City of Mobile Bring Back Broad is an initiative to renew and revitalize Broad Street which serves as a gateway into Mobile’s historic downtown and central business and entertainment districts. This vital corridor had become, over time, an unattractive, abandoned, even forbidding expanse of pavement. Bring Back Broad‘s goals were to reconnect neighborhoods divided by Broad Street and to enhance the safety, comfort, appearance, and economic potential of the historic thoroughfare, including: reducing crossing distances by removing lanes and providing a safe median, designing streets and facilities for multi-modal transportation, prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists, simplifying traffic routes through crossover connections, left-

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