Front Street Mews in New Westminster is a pedestrian-friendly complete streets redevelopment, with TrafficPatterns and StreetBond150 giving street and sidewalk one continuous surface.
For landscape architecture
Complete Streets for Front Street Mews in the City of New Westminster, British Columbia
A pedestrian-friendly complete streets redevelopment, completed in 2017, with architectural hardscape, widened sidewalks, street furniture, lighting, street trees, traffic calming, stormwater planters, and angled parking.
Portions of a parkade were removed and the old Frontage Road was redesigned as a "Mews". The Mews is now an attractive, safe and pedestrian-friendly street that residents and merchants can be proud of. A continuous pavement treatment for the street and sidewalk reinforces the idea of a 'Complete Streets' (i.e. designed to facilitate a wide range of activities including local access, pedestrian, and bicycle movement, social interaction, commercial and restaurant activity).
The contrasting grey bands that run across both the street and the sidewalk are TrafficPatterns preformed thermoplastic on the roadway and StreetBond150 pavement coating on the concrete sidewalk. Both are used on Complete Streets projects across Canada.
The complete streets redevelopment design for the Front Street Mews was based on the following principles:
- Create a unique destination that attracts people and enhances the downtown experience.
- Create complete streets where people choose to stay.
- Retain a sense of industrial character.
- Create a mixed modal/shared street.
- Design the street to be safe, serviceable and accessible.
- Provide adequate parking to support businesses.
- Address issues identified by stakeholder groups and the community.
- Create an engaging street edge with future development.
- Create a street that's flexible to accommodate a variety of program uses.
- Integrate with the surrounding street network with strong connections to the waterfront.
Installation by Square One Paving Ltd.
