Bicycle & Pedestrian Facilities
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Clients trust TGC to develop safe and accessible bicycle and pedestrian facilities – vital components of the built environment. These facilities provide essential first- and last-mile connections to and from home, work, services, and recreational activities. We help our clients integrate these facilities into their infrastructure plans and work tirelessly to develop, design and construct projects that serve a wide variety of active transportation purposes. From sidewalks and bus stops to community-wide mobility networks, our work keeps people traveling on foot or by bike at the forefront of every design decision.
With 40+ years of experience with federal and state funding programs, public engagement, and interagency coordination, TGC ensures every project serves the most important mobility needs.
TGC’s integrated approach assures transportation planning, at any level, results in constructable designs and projects – completed on schedule and within budget.
We are subject matter experts on national, state, and local pedestrian and bicycle design criteria, and we bring a wealth of experience in facility design and construction.
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Active transportation planning plays a pivotal role in developing safe, sustainable and accessible urban environments. By addressing safety concerns, fostering physical activity, and building well-connected networks, active transportation planning enhances safety and public health, reduces congestion, and supports environmental sustainability practices. Our approach creates equitable, vibrant communities that prioritize resident well-being and engagement.
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Our transportation planning practice ties directly into the design of pedestrian facilities. Our engineering staff have completed hundreds of design work across Texas, developing projects through our active transportation process in collaboration with clients and jurisdictional administrations. We have provided new, upgraded, or life cycle replacement pedestrian circulation improvements in new and existing public rights-of-way, and our design process includes context-sensitive solutions for curb ramps, sidewalks, median refuges, pavement markings, and pedestrian crossings with or without pedestrian signals and push buttons.
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Designing new accessible facilities or updating existing facilities requires ensuring proper access to sidewalks and streets, crosswalks, curb ramps, pedestrian signals, on-street parking, and other components of the public right-of-way. These types of improvements include shared use paths, which are designed primarily for use by bicyclists and pedestrians for transportation and recreation purposes. Many of our projects involve connecting people with transit and other essential community services, providing safe routes to school, parks, and commercial activities. We work with many public agencies and non-profit organizations to develop right-of-way and building facilities projects.
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Bicycling and other forms of nonmotorized wheeled transportation are quickly becoming a mode of choice for many commuters and others seeking physical activity. We actively plan and design dedicated bikeways, including bike lanes, buffered bike lanes, separated bike lanes, and shared use paths. Associated design activities include, but are not limited to, many of the same types of improvements used for pedestrian facilities: pavement markings, signage, signals, barriers, pavement design, and drainage. More emphasis tends to be placed on how to safely accommodate these improvements within or adjacent to vehicle travel lanes. Examples of our work in this area include:
Designing and producing plans meeting the requirements of AASHTO and MUTCD for the design of dedicated bikeways (on-street and off-street).
Performing drainage analysis and design to maintain positive drainage and propose improvements where needed.
Designing intersection or conflict area treatments that safely accommodate movements of bicyclists and motor vehicles.
Public engagement activities to ensure proposed bike facilities are well-integrated with existing private and public development.
Featured Team Member | Ashish Ghosh, PE
TGC Principal Engineer Ashish Ghosh, PE, leads the engineering team to support planning, detailed design, and construction phase activities. Mr. Ghosh brings extensive experience working with local public works departments and state departments of transportation on a variety of public infrastructure projects to include roadways, signalization, bicycle, pedestrian, drainage, public transportation, and facility development. Ashish is passionate about building sustainable infrastructure through collaboration and partnership. Throughout his career, he has acquired significant expertise in developing solution-oriented design concepts, permitting, cost estimating, PS&E preparation, construction support, and project management for multifaceted civil engineering projects. Ashish holds a Master of Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Professional Engineering licenses from several states in the U.S.
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