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East Jefferson
General Hospital is a regional medical
center consisting of the hospital, medical
office buildings and parking facilities on
a 25-acre campus.
The hospital's plan
to add 236,900 square feet of medical
service space and 1,611 parking spaces in
two new parking garages had the potential
to increase traffic volume in the
surrounding residential neighborhood and
to cause traffic problems on the hospital
campus. BKI was retained to examine the
hospital's needs and to make
recommendations to improve hospital access
while decreasing the impact on
neighborhood streets.
BKI documented
existing traffic volumes and patterns,
analyzed current facility demands,
forecasted future volumes and demands
based on the proposed expansion, and
recommended several site access changes,
including improving signage to delineate
employee and patient parking areas,
constructing additional driveways,
creating directional flow around existing
buildings and to garage entrance/exits,
and constructing turn and deceleration
lanes.
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