Nashua Downtown Master Plan
To this end, the planning team
reviewed and analyzed the current pro-
posal, interviewed the community devel-
opment staff, public works staff, and the
regional planning commission staff, con-
ducted a field examination, and applied
national experience from other similar
projects to the design of the Broad Street
Parkway.
The existing proposal for the Broad
Street Parkway calls for a four-lane arte-
rial highway, most of it divided by a cen-
ter median, extending a distance of 1.7
miles, from a northern terminus at Broad
Street to a southern terminus on Hollis
Street. In addition to its two terminus
intersections (Broad Street and Hollis
Street), the proposed parkway would
have three other intersections: at a con-
nection to a Sargent Avenue extension,
in the Millyard south of the Nashua
River, and at Ledge Street just to the
south of the Millyard. Auxiliary lanes
(left-turn lanes and, in some instances,
right turn lanes) would be present at all
intersections.
The design speed of the proposed
Broad Street Parkway is 40-50 miles per
hour, typical of a multi-lane suburban
arterial highway. The Parkway is a lim-
ited access roadway, with no fronting
properties having access to the road.
Access to adjacent properties is gained
through the three internal intersections
and the two terminus intersections.
The master plan team recognized the
two underlying strengths of the current
Broad Street proposal:
* It adds to the arterial street network.
Adding new street network is always
preferable to the alternate action of
widening the existing street network.
* It adds new street network in per-
haps the most useful alignment in
Nashua: i.e., north/south across the
Nashua River, thereby creating a par-
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Current inventory of
all one-way streets
shown in red
(bottom)
Through an
incremental process, 20
of the 47 one-way
streets can be converted.
Converted streets are
shown in red,
remaining one-way
streets are shown in red.
