Providing safety and mobility to pedestrians within urban areas
With a growing population in Montgomery County, there was an increasing need to ensure safer travel for residents. As part of a basic order agreement, we were contracted by Montgomery County to provide planning concepts, analysis, and design to add bicycle and improved pedestrian facilities to numerous roadways within the county’s urban areas.
Our team prepared concept and full design plans for Second Avenue, Amherst Avenue, Grosvenor Avenue, and Fenton Street. We walked each site to note existing conditions, reviewed American Disability Act compatibility, site distance concerns, utility locations, storm drain features, adjacent property owners, on-street parking, volume of traffic and pedestrians, and the condition of traffic features. Some improvements included sharrow pavement marking and signing, lane reduction and striped bike lanes, raised medians, new sidewalk ramps, green painted lanes, wayfinding signs, and modified intersections.
As part of this project, we designed the county’s first protected intersection. Implementation of these improvements is ongoing, but the outcome will be transformative—communities will enjoy a more balanced use of the public right-of-way, creating safer, walkable, and bikeable streets for active transportation users.
At a Glance
- Offices
- Client
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- Montgomery County DOT
Bimal Patel, Principal
Engineering takes teamwork, and you’ll collaborate with all kinds of people inside and outside the field.
Simon Simon, Senior Principal
Being a part of bridging the gap between communities is rewarding. My job is to help build bridges and highways that improve quality of life.
Carrie Casto, Associate, Senior Project Manager, Transportation
Our work helps improve local infrastructure, to enhance safety and mobility in the communities we serve.
Steve Zeender, Associate, Project Manager, Transportation
I enjoy designing a range of transportation infrastructure improvements—I’m committed to increasing safety, walkability, and bikeability.
Lori Adgate, Project Manager, Transportation
Through transportation engineering, I’m able to help create safer, more walkable streets.
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