Hollywood Boulevard Complete Streets Improvements 

• New paving, striping and surface drainage configuration
• New colored concrete walks
• New pedestrian cross walks with center refuge median and center walkway spline
• New 5-foot wide bike lanes with buffer zone
• New pedestrian scale lighting
• New ornamental plantings along the corridor (trees, palms, flowering shrubs and groundcover)
• New site furnishings including functional public art
• New American with Disabilities Act-compliant (ADA) parking spaces and accessible ways
• New ornamental shade structures at crosswalks
• Safer parking configuration

Walkable, Livable Community

Hollywood, through its Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), is using the Complete Streets design guidelines to reinvigorate important entranceways into the City and spark commercial redevelopment. Projects include pedestrian friendly sidewalks, bike lanes, and right-of-way improvements along State Road A1A from Sheridan Street to Arizona Street and along US-1. After extensive public outreach and coordination with the Florida Department of Transportation, a final design for the A1A corridor was chosen and construction began in October 2017. 

A1A Complete Streets Improvements 

• New 5-lane configuration
• Sharrow bike lanes in each direction
• New sidewalks, curbs and gutters
• New American with Disabilities Act-compliant (ADA) ramps
• Improved drainage structures
• Decorative pedestrian scale lighting
• New landscaping on medians and sidewalks
• Colorful brick pavers
• New traffic signal at Garfield Street
• Undergrounding of overhead utilities along A1A
• New paving and striping

From Obstacle to Opportunity

The Florida Department of Transportation's project to improve the US-441/State Road 7 corridor required multiple dry retention areas along the roadway. The City, working with FDOT and the MPO, developed a plan to reansform those spaces into a roadside linear park featuring decorative, landscaped buffered sidewalks and flowing shade trees. Amenities such as benches, picnic areas, playgrounds exercise equipment, enhances lighting, bicycle lanes and bus bays will make this a distinctive, visually appealing throughfare that is safer for pedestrians, residents and motorists alike.

What is a Complete Street?

A Complete Street is a roadway planned and designed for safe, convenient and comfortable use by people of all ages and abilities. These streets allow safe travel for walking, bicycling, driving, public transportation and deliveries.

What does a Complete Street include?

Some elements of a Complete Street can include buffered bike lanes, bulb-outs with ornamental plantings, median crossing refuge, shortened distances for clearly-marked crosswalks, pedestrian scale lighting, traffic calming circles/roundabouts, median islands, on-street parking, shade trees, bus shelters, and other pedestrian amenities such as benches and wider sidewalks.

What are the benefits of a Complete Street?

Complete Streets make economic sense; they encourage patronage through usable connections between residences, schools, parks, public transportation, offices, and retail destinations. They improve safety by allowing people to move more safely and easily within corridors and can reduce pedestrian risk by 28 percent thus promoting walkability. Other benefits can include calming traffic speeds, increasing property values, environmental benefits and opportunities for stormwater treatment for use in rain gardens or irrigation, etc. Aside from these important benefits, they also help to beautify areas in which they are constructed and enhance the quality of life of those who live and work within the area, thus strengthening the conditions and environment that allows an area to evolve and thrive.

Federal Highway "Complete Streets" project renderings

Johnson Street "Complete Streets" project rendering

Hollywood Boulevard "Complete Streets" project renderings (click on a rendering to enlarge. Adobe Reader required).

View from 24th Avenue	View from Doris	Overhead SEC Crosswalk
Hollywood Blvd. Section A	Hollywood Blvd. Section B	Hollywood Blvd. Section C
Hollywood Blvd. Section D

US-441/State Road 7 from Hollywood Boulevard north to Johnson Street

(click on a rendering to enlarge. Adobe Reader required).

A perspective of the northeast corner of 441 and Hollywood Blvd. (looking northeast)	Birds-eye view of Columbus Pkwy. at Hollywood Blvd. & 441, bus stop, retention pond, walking path	Conceptual park plan segment from Hollywood Blvd. (left) north to Polk St. (right)
Conceptual park plan segment from Polk St. (left) north to Fillmore St. (right)	Conceptual park plan segment from Fillmore St. (left) north to Buchanan St. (right)	Conceptual park plan segment from Buchanan St. (left) north to Johnson St. (right)
Perspective showing a typical tree-lined curvilinear walking path with 4-foot-wide bicycle lane along 441	Perspective/sketch study for Hollywood Gardens neighborhood street entrance features	Perspective of park plaza and retention pond foot bridge crossing (typical at Taylor and Pierce)
Perspective showing children’s playground (looking northwest at Glen Parkway and Lincoln St.)	Left perspective of plaza at the SE corner of   441 and Johnson St. (looking NE to SE)	Right perspective of plaza at the SE corner of 441 and Johnson St. (looking NE to SE)