People outside the transportation agency world often think
that bike-ped projects (sidewalks, bikeways, bike lanes, etc.) should be quick
and easy to design and build. But
it ain’t necessarily so. These
projects often have problems and issues just like other, larger projects,
including competition for funding, lack of expertise, controversy within
agencies, controversy with the local community, and – wait for it – challenges from
environmental agencies.
There are ways of
speeding up these projects, and I’m happy to have been part of a great team
that has put together a workbook filled with tips for doing just that. Sponsored by FHWA, the workbook is entitled
“Strategies for Accelerating Multimodal Project Delivery” and is available
here. Also available on that
webpage are a related slideshow and access to a webinar (including my dulcet
tones). The document is based not
only on the pooled expertise of the authors but also on extensive conversations
with many practitioners, who shared their experience with us. All this information has been distilled
into easy-to-use text, with case studies and links to other sources.
If you are involved in any step in the project development
pipeline for bike-ped projects, I think you will find this workbook very
useful.
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