Columbus South Side Area Commission

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Lockbourne Road

The safety of people walking along Lockbourne Road is a major concern of the Columbus South Side Area Commission. There are sidewalk gaps along Lockbourne Road between Frebis Avenue and Marion Road and several portions of the existing sidewalk do not meet accessibility requirements. This section of Lockbourne Road does not have curbs and in several areas features wide swaths of pavement with limited stormwater control and access management. While the intersections of Lockbourne Road with Frebis Avenue and Marion Road have traffic signals, there are no other signalized intersections or marked crosswalks on this nearly one-mile section of Lockbourne Road.

Lockbourne Road is part of the Vision Zero Columbus High Injury Network, meaning it is one of the roadways in Columbus with the greatest number of fatal, serious injury and/or vulnerable user crashes. From 2018 to 2022, this section of Lockbourne Road had 1 fatal crash, 9 serious injury crashes, 4 crashes involving pedestrians, and 5 crashes involving motorcycles.

Lockbourne’s missing sidewalks

Looking south from the intersection of Lockbourne Road and Smith Road, a car blocks the sidewalk just south of a COTA bus stop sign. The sidewalk crosses through a parking area.

A person is biking through a parking area in front of a Stop 'N' Shop at the intersection of Lockbourne Road and Smith Road. There is no sidewalk. Lockbourne Green, a recently-constructed affordable housing complex, is in the background.

The sidewalk ends at a parking area at the intersection of Lockbourne Road and Lawrence Drive.

A wide swath of pavement along Lockbourne Road with a parking area where drivers pull into parking spaces directly off the road. There is no sidewalk.

A wide swath of pavement along Lockbourne Road with parking areas on both sides where drivers pull into parking spaces directly off the road. There are no sidewalks on either side of the road.

A wide swath of pavement along Lockbourne Road with parking areas on both sides where drivers pull into parking spaces directly off the road. There are no sidewalks on either side of the road.

A wide swath of pavement along Lockbourne Road with a parking area sides where drivers pull into parking spaces directly off the road. There are no sidewalk.

Map of Sidewalk Gaps