Services Provided
About the Project
Various Locations
CBB has significant experience working on many projects as part of the East-West Gateway Council of Governments (EWG) Great Streets program. Launched in 2006, the EWG Great Streets program has worked in various communities across the St. Louis region to enhance streets as quality public spaces that support a variety of land uses, encourage economic development, are environmentally friendly, and support all modes of transportation, including bicyclists, pedestrians, motorists, and transit users. CBB has worked as the expert transportation planner on nine of these projects. Given funding constraints for local municipalities the program consists of two types of planning efforts 1) full master plan and 2) a strategic plan, both of which CBB has been engaged in.
- Illinois
- Route 159/Main Street in Smithton, IL (strategic plan)
- St. Louis Road/Collinsville Road in Collinsville, IL (strategic plan)
- Mascoutah Main Street in Mascoutah, IL (strategic plan)
- St. Louis County, MO
- West Florissant Avenue (full master plan)
- Woodson Road in Overland, MO (strategic plan)
- City of St. Louis, MO
- Grand Center (full master plan)
- Bevo Mill (full master plan)
- Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard (strategic plan)
- 14th Street (strategic plan)
These projects started with team kick-off meetings to further develop the goals and vision of the agency for their corridor. The team was then responsible for working with the agency to collect necessary background information needed for each discipline as we further investigated the corridor. In addition to these data collection efforts, the team met with pre-identified key stakeholders for interviews prior to the public engagement.
In these projects, CBB evaluated the automobile, pedestrian, bicycle, and transit operations and accommodations along the corridor and helped the project team develop alternatives that support desired land use and balance the operations of the various transportation modes along the route. As a part of this process CBB completed comprehensive speed studies, walkability and bikeability audits, corridor crash analysis, and multi-modal level of service analysis.
The projects include a variety of engagement strategies such as design charettes, public meetings, visioning processes, and many more. Each project culminates with a final report outlining planning recommendations for the corridor (level of detail dependent on type of project). As a result of these projects, each of these communities have the necessary tools to use for project implementation as they work to identify future funding opportunities for corridor design and construction.
