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1 How can landscape architects aide in transportation planning process? John Dempsey, PLA Toole Design Group July 24, 2015

2 What is Landscape Architecture? Landscape Architecture 1863

3 What is Landscape Architecture?

4 What is Landscape Architecture? Landscape architecture is the design of space to achieve environmental, social-behavioral and aesthetic balance.

5 Common Misconceptions

6 Landscape Architect Skill Set

7 Landscape Architecture Specialty Disciplines

8 Transportation Planning Transportation planning deals with the evaluation, assessment, design and siting of sidewalk, bicycle, roadway and public transit facilities.

9 Transportation for All

10 Landscape Architecture & Transportation

11 Streets define the character of neighborhoods and are the common ground where people travel, meet and do business on a daily basis.

12 Complete Streets

13 Complete Streets

14 Complete Streets

15 Existing

16 Proposed

17 Complete Streets

18 Complete Streets

19 Tactical Urbanism

20 Tactical Urbanism

21 Tactical Urbanism

22 Parklet

23 Parklet

24 Landscape Architecture & Transportation

25 Rails to Trails

26 Rails to Trails

27 Rails to Trails

28 Rails to Trails

29 Landscape Architecture & Transportation

30 Underpasses

31 Underpasses

32 Underpasses

33 Waterways

34 Waterways

35 Waterways

36 Transportation for All

37 John Dempsey, PLA

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54 Structural Soil CU Specification Provide minimum 40% porosity beneath hard surfaces with light or stationary loading. Structural Cells For applications beneath hard surfaces with heavy and moving traffic.

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64 Over Under Through obstacles to multi-modal transportation facilities William Collins, RLA, VP

65 Types of obstacles X Physical X Costs / funding X Bureaucratic X Nimbys X Friends

66 Types of structural solutions for trail / pedestrian / non-motor vehicle facilities Bridges Underpasses At-grade crossings Tunnels Road diets

67 Landscape Architecture services Master planning Defining the program Funding development Partnership negotiation Site design Structure / bridge architecture

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69 OVER Tohickon Aqueduct Delaware Canal National Landmark Delaware Canal State Park Point Pleasant, Bucks County Rehabilitate historic transportation resource

70 Obstacles: Tohickon Aqueduct X Physical X Costs X Bureaucratic X Friends Strategies: Modern timber structure Traditional bridge truss system Innovative materials, reuse stone Alternative funding partners

71 Tohickon Aqueduct LA Services Historic research, concept design Substructure schematics, materials specs Bridge architecture, documentation Funding strategy, grant applications Community consultant

72 Budget: $2.1 M (Construction) Funding Partners Tohickon Aqueduct PennDOT Enhancements USDA Forest Service Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Awards 1 st Place - National Timber Bridge, 2002 Honor - ASLA PA/DE Chapter, 2003 Honorable Mention - National Rail-Trail, 2003 Design Excellence - Central Bucks AIA, 2002

73 OVER Obstacles: X Physical X Nimbys X Bureaucratic Solebury Township, Bucks County Strategies: Canal Park Bridge Delaware Canal National Landmark Delaware Canal State Park Create new bridge over the canal Modern steel structure customize pre-fab Mimic iconic traditional Camelback truss Justify impacts to the Landmark

74 Traditional 1831 design Canal Park Bridge New 2009 design

75 Canal Park Bridge LA Services Master planning, historic research Funding strategy, grant applications

76 Canal Park Bridge LA Services Structure simulations, park and trail design

77 Canal Park Bridge Ramps would total 4 times the bridge length LA Services ADA alternatives analyses Compliance justification to SHPO

78 Canal Park Bridge LA Services Bridge architecture, specifications Design collaboration with engineer

79 Canal Park Bridge $150,000 Construction Funding DRJTBC Township Partner DCNR NIMBYs now use the bridge

80 OVER Kings Covered Bridge Rehabilitate historic transportation structure Middlecreek Township, Somerset County Obstacles: X Physical X Costs X Bureaucratic Eligible for the National Historic Register

81 Kings Covered Bridge Before (stabilized) LA Services After restored Funding strategy Prime consultant to PennDOT Bridge architecture, site design

82 Kings Covered Bridge Before (Stabilized) After Rehabilitated Acquired by non-profit from private owners for rehabilitation

83 $90,000 Stabilization $0.865 M Rehabilitation Funding Partners PennDOT Enhancements $ FHWA National Covered Bridge Commonwealth of PA Somerset County US Forest Service Awards Modjeski - Preservation PA, 2008 Kings Covered Bridge

84 Forty Foot Road Pedestrian Bridge OVER Build new pedestrian bridge over state highway Towamencin Township Montgomery County Obstacles: X Physical X Costs X Bureaucratic X Nimbys State Route 63 (Forty Foot Road) at interchange of PA Turnpike NE Extension

85 Forty Foot Road Pedestrian Bridge called the bridge to nowhere by opponents Strategies: Create walkable community Depress highway horizontally Create mid-block, non-motorized bridge Design context sensitive civic icon Bridge location

86 Forty Foot Road Pedestrian Bridge Initial Ultimate Economic studies informed highway design

87 Forty Foot Road Pedestrian Bridge LA Services Town Center Recreation Plan Concept depress and span highway Bridge design, TC zoning overlay Alternative alignment analyses

88 Art Deco motif integrated into structure Forty Foot Road Pedestrian Bridge Cloistered pedestrian environment on deck

89 Forty Foot Road Pedestrian Bridge Bridge as a landscape structure Feature concrete as a sculptural material

90 $1M Bridge $13M Roadway Funding Partners PennDOT / FHWA Towamencin Twp Awards Forty Foot Road Pedestrian Bridge National Concrete Bridge - PCA, 2008 Project of the Year - ASHE, 2008 Merit - ASLA PA/DE, 2009

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92 Pottstown Pedestrian Underpass UNDER Create pedestrian thoroughfare under active railroad Pottstown, Montgomery County

93 Pottstown Pedestrian Underpass Obstacles: X Physical X Costs X Bureaucratic Strategies: Adaptively reuse former millrace under active railroad Create safe pedestrian link from town center to regional trail Connect two halves of college campus

94 Pottstown Pedestrian Underpass Before After Concept

95 Pottstown Pedestrian Underpass LA Services Park master plans, funding strategy Underpass architecture, site design Compliance justification to SHPO

96 Pottstown Pedestrian Underpass $1.08 M Rehabilitation Funding Partners PennDOT TE $ PA DCNR Montgomery County Awards Revitalization - MCPC, 2008 Project of the Year - ASHE, 2008

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98 THROUGH Minisink Greenway Trail Create pedestrian walkway thru existing overpass Smithfield Township Monroe County I-80 Link between Appalachian Trail NPS McDade Trail

99 Obstacles: Minisink Greenway Trail X Physical X Costs X Bureaucratic X Friends Before After

100 Before Minisink Greenway Trail After LA Services Trail plan, funding strategy, grant application Thoroughfare / trail design / documentation PennDOT negotiation

101 Minisink Greenway Trail Concept Built

102 3-foot sidewalk = 11 years Minisink Greenway Trail

103 $0.8 M Rehabilitation Minisink Greenway Trail Funding Partners DRJTBC Commonwealth of PA Client Smithfield Township

104 THROUGH Solebury Route 32 Trail Obstacles: X Physical Solebury Township Bucks County X Costs X Bureaucratic Retire a lane of the state scenic highway for a new bike trail

105 Solebury Gateway Trail Existing Proposed Strategies: Road diet, stormwater bioswale, trail

106 $1.9 M Total Project Funding Partners DRJTBC Solebury Township PennDOT PA DCNR PA DCED Solebury Gateway Trail LA Services Concept strategy / funding strategy Grant applications, site design

107 THROUGH Big Savage Tunnel Rehabilitate former railroad tunnel for interstate trail Mason Dixon Line Somerset County * Great Allegheny Passage (GAP)

108 Big Savage Tunnel Obstacles: X Physical X Costs Strategies: Analyze alternative routes Rehabilitate former RR structure

109 THROUGH Big Savage Tunnel Completed new liner, drainage, lighting, doors, trail

110 $12 M - Rehabilitation Big Savage Tunnel Funding Partners Commonwealth of PA National Park Service Allegheny Trail Alliance USDA Forest Service Somerset County

111 Thank you Contact Brian J. Laverty John Dempsey Stephen Luoni William Collins

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