The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» can help your community address multiple facets of transportation planning to ensure safety and promote healthy living. We use funds granted by the to keep our costs to a minimum. Often, the cost of our work is fully-funded by our MnDOT Transportation Planning grant.
Our transportation planning services include:
Safe Routes to School
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» can help your community apply for grants from theÌýÌýand then work with you to prepare a plan that will improve safety for your students who walk or bike to school.
Walkability Studies
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» can objectively measure how friendly your community is to walkers based on distance to amenities, pedestrian safety, and other criteria, and can often be completed concurrently with your Safe Routes to School Planning Project.
Active Living Transportation incorporates physical activity into daily routines.
Walking or biking to work or school is an example of Active Living Transportation. The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» can help your community promote active living by:
- Updating municipal plans toÌýincorporate sidewalks and crosswalksÌýinto street development
- Increasing access to connected walking and biking networks
- Connecting and promoting trail systems
- Incorporating street landscaping and signage
- Taking other effective approaches toÌýcalm traffic and improve safetyÌýalong identified routes
Sidewalk and Trails Planning
Sidewalks and trails provide critical links in your transportation network by providing pedestrian access to commercial districts, schools, businesses, government offices, and recreation areas. They should be designed to meet the needs of the maximum number of potential users, including users with disabilities.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» will work with your community to prepare a sidewalk and trails plan that will ensure the best use of your pedestrian-focused dollars.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Transportation & Community Planner
Blake BarnardÌýcan be reached via email atÌýblake.barnard@mmrdc.orgÌýor by phone at (651) 605-1091