Projects

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CURRENT PROJECTS Street Plans is currently working on the following projects: - 5401 Bicycle Network Overlay Plan, Raleigh, NC - Plan El Paso, El Paso, TX - New York City Bike-Share - and Bicycle City, South Carolina. All Updates will be provided in our Heard on The Street page, and project descriptions added as these projects are finished. Stay tuned!

Miami Bicycle Master Plan In 2009, The Street Plans Collaborative completed the City of Miami’s first comprehensive bicycle master plan. Since it's adoption, the City has moved aggressively to implement not just new bikeways, but also to expand its education and outreach efforts. In 2011, the city received an Honorable Mention by the League of American Bicyclists as a Bicycle-Friendly Community.

Westminster 2030 Bicycle Master Plan The Westminster, Colorado 2030 Bicycle Master Plan was adopted by City Council on June 27th, 2011! With over 100,000 residents, Westminster plays a key role in advancing sustainable transportation in the Denver metro region. The City presently maintains an extensive 74-mile shared use path network, but has not yet implemented a viable network of on-street bikeways. Moreover, wayfinding remains difficult and the city’s network of arterial streets makes bicycling very uncomfortable for all but the most experienced bicyclists. Thus, the Westminster 2030 Bicycle Master Plan introduces five new contextually appropriate bikeway types to make the city friendlier for all bicyclists. The proposed network is designed to connect all major commercial centers, residential neighborhoods, recreation amenities, and the city’s transit hubs, which will feature commuter rail in the near future. The network is also designed to connect to all planned and existing bikeways in neighboring municipalities, thereby contributing to a robust regional bikeway system. The plan also provides recommendations for bicycle parking and education, evaluation, and enforcement efforts.

Bike Westminster Website As part of our community input responsibilities in drafting the Westminster Bike Plan, Street Plans created bikewestminster.org. The website is a resource for information related to the bicycle masterplan process and bicycle planning. As with other Street Plans websites, it takes advantage of interactive google maps, and is augmented by the use of other social media, such as Twitter and Facebook.

Plan El Paso Street Plans is currently working with Dover Kohl and Partners on a multi-phase effort for the City of El Paso, Texas as it seeks to update its Comprehensive Plan and vision for a variety of multi-modal transportation projects.

Plan El Paso Website Planelpaso.org is a innovative and dynamic website designed and administered by Street Plans for the City of El Paso as they embark on the comprehensive plan effort. The site began as the source of information about the SmartCode rezoning for Transit Oriented Developments around the city. As the city has embarked on the greater comprehensive plan effort, the site has been instrumental in engaging the public and seeking public input. The website contains an interactive mapping functionality to assist in seeking public commentary, and is the primary means of communication between the project team and the public.

Downtown Brunswick and Outer Pleasant Street Master Plan The Street Plans Collaborative worked alongside the Project for Public Spaces in completing a downtown and corridor vision master plan in Brunswick, Maine, a historic college town that has long served as the gateway to the state’s beautiful mid-coast region.

Damariscotta, Maine Heart and Soul Plan Charrette In collaboration with B. Dennis Town Planning and Design, Dover Kohl, and TND Engineering, TSPC produced bicycle planning charrette services for the Damariscotta Heart and Soul Plan.

Dennis Port, Massachusetts Master Plan Charrette In collaboration with B. Dennis Town & Building Design, Dover Kohl, and TND Engineering, The Street Plans Collaborative provided bicycle planning services for the Dennis Port Master Plan Charrette.

Plan Stone Avenue Website www.planstoneavenue.org is a website designed and operated by The Street Plans Collaborative for the City and residents of Greenville, South Carolina. Joining the Dover Kohl and Partners led design team, The Street Plans Collaborative was tasked with harnessing the power of web 2.0 technology to increase public participation and to improve the overall planning process.

48x48x48 Alongside DoTank: Brooklyn, Street Plans worked with the Oyster Bay Main Street Association to address several of these issues through empowering local residents to restructure the way they understand the social and physical fabric of their community. Early results include the opening of a museum featuring Billy Joel's antique motorcycle collection and a new farmer's market.

Bike Miami Days: A City of Miami Open Streets Initiative Our experience organizing and implementing livable streets events in the City of Miami transformed the perception of downtown Miami and encouraged the reclamation of the city's auto-oriented streets.

Cambridge in Motion The Street Plans Collaborative is pleased to be taking the lead on Cambridge in Motion (CIM), an innovative, Cambridge-based program to improve access to transportation for senior citizens and persons with disabilities. In recognition of the isolation and other barriers experienced by seniors and people with disabilities, CIM seeks to develop and provide a user-friendly system that would connect all of those who live, work, visit, or worship in Cambridge to safe, reliable, accessible and cost-effective community-based transportation.

SmartCode Bicycle Module The SmartCode Bicycle Module was researched and authored by Mike Lydon and Tony Garcia of The Street Plans Collaborative, with assistance from Zachary Adelson. The module is designed to “plug in” in to the SmartCode, which is a model form-based code that folds zoning, subdivision regulations, urban design, public works standards and basic architectural controls into one compact document.

Allentown, PA Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Plan The Street Plans Collaborative worked with Sam Schwartz Engineers and McTish, Kunkel & Associates in completing the Allentown, PA Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Plan. Specifically, the project focused on the design of several bicycle and pedestrian improvements through two key downtown corridors identified in the City’s previously adopted Connecting our Community Plan.

Miami Health District Bicycle and Pedestrian Study Teaming with HNTB, The Street Plans Collaborative completed a detailed bicycle and pedestrian study for Miami’s Health District. This approximately one-square mile area is home to many of the region’s hospitals and medical research facilities, as well as the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine.

Denver, CO Brighton Boulevard FHWA Context-Sensitive Technical Assistance Plan On behalf of the Federal Highway Administration, Street Plans joined Project for Public Spaces in providing technical assistance to the City of Denver in the re-design of Brighton Boulevard. Street Plans provided extensive public involvement workshop, planning, and design services for the project. The project was completed in September of 2011.

Rhode Island Healthy Places By Design Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning Trainings Rhode Island’s Healthy Places by Design pilot program seeks to strengthen land use, transportation and urban design policies. The goal is to inform local ordinances that guide the decision making process for the built environment to be more supportive of health, particularly as it relates to physical activity and healthy eating. As part of this innovative program, The Street Plans Collaborative was retained by GrowSmart Rhode and the Rhode Island Department of Health to design and implement bicycle and pedestrian training workshops. The workshops were conducted in the pilot communities of South Kingstown, North Kingstown, and Pawtucket.

City of Fitchburg, WI SmartCode Update The City of Fitchburg retained The Street Plans Collaborative to update the street design standards developed in the SmartCode Zoning Ordinance. Before undertaking any design work, Street Plans conducted a “handlebar survey” of the city and led a public involvement process in June of 2011. This allowed the firm to best understand the conditions on the ground and the community’s aspirations. The final SmartCode update coordinates more than 25 bikeway facility, intersection design, and bicycle parking types to the five local context zones established in the SmartCode.

Bayfront Parkway While several downtown plans have called for transforming Biscayne Boulevard’s median parking lots into a green doorstep for downtown Miami, action has never been taken...until now. Bayfront Parkway was a one-week action planning installation designed and led by Street Plans and local engineering firm C3TS. With a small $7,000 grant and a host of donating organizations, Bayfront Parkway was done to provide a “living rendering” for how a parking lot might be used permanently as a park the future.

Jean Lafitte, LA Town Resiliency Plan The town of Jean Lafitte is a centuries old settlement located along Bayou Barataria, approximately 22 miles south of New Orleans. The Jean Lafitte Town Resiliency Plan was developed to help the town overcome converging economic and environmental challenges related to hurricane recovery and increased flooding due to coastal erosion and sea level rise. Street Plans joined the Town Resiliency planning team, led by Dover Kohl & Partners, to provide bicycle and pedestrian design and planning services.

Bristol Rising Bristol Rising is an innovative, crowd-sourced downtown redevelopment and placemaking plan being led by Renaissance Downtowns. Street Plans was hired by Renaissance Downtowns to address strong stakeholder support for increase bicycling in downtown Bristol. In response, Street Plans designed a conceptual Bicycle Network Plan connecting the city’s intown residential neighborhoods, downtown Bristol, and the city’s four major parks. Through the use of the conceptual bike shed, the network plan reveals just how many destinations may be reach within a short 5-7 minute bicycle ride.

City of Miami Bicycle-Friendly Community Application The 2008 Miami Bicycle Action Plan, created with the participation of Street Plans’ Mike Lydon, prioritized a number of policy changes and set short-term goals to help improve the city’s overall bicycling conditions. One of the stated goals included achieving Bicycle-Friendly Community status, as designated by the League of American Bicyclists, by 2012. With the early success of the 2008 Action Plan and considerable progress achieved by implementing the 2009 Bicycle Master Plan, the City of Miami applied for BFC status in 2011 and earned an ‘Honorable Mention.’ While not the desired outcome per se, the notice, alongside its recent ranking as the 44th most bicycle-friendly city in the US, is encouraging.

Queens Boulevard Design Guide + Precedent Study In 2010, The Transportation Alternatives (T.A.) Queens Volunteer Committee embarked on a campaign to win pedestrian and bicyclist safety in Queens. Working with Planning Corps, a non-profit volunteer network of urban planners and The Street Plans Collaborative, a comparative book of multi-way boulevard design precedents was developed to build public support for changes to the street. Drawing from the work of Allan Jacobs, the book analyzes technical dimensions and compares the allocation of space by mode between Queens Boulevard and 6 other similar, but more balanced multi-way boulevards.

Miami Bicycle Action Plan Prior to the formulation of The Street Plans Collaborative, Principal Mike Lydon served as primary authors for the City's first Bicycle Action Plan, which has proved instrumental in improving cycling conditions in Miami.

BikePlanner In collaboration with The Open Planning Project, The Street Plans Collaborative has created BikePlanner, an open source web-based, collaborative bicycle planning tool.

Urban Environment League Website The Urban Environment League approached the Street Plans Collaborative to update their website to provide greater interaction with their members, and to incorporate a blog where members could contribute articles about the environment, planning, and politics in Greater Miami.

Bicycle City, South Carolina The Street Plans Collaborative is currently providing planning, design, communication, and implementation services for Bicycle City, America’s first car-free new town.