Pedestrian Planning & Design

Improving pedestrian safety and comfort should be a goal for any forward-thinking community. Alta has been creating better access and walking routes for more than a decade, and we offer comprehensive services for pedestrian projects including walkway, sidewalk, intersection and promenade planning and design. Among the elements we consider, create and bring together are streetscapes, Main Street corridors, transit access, waterfronts and parks. Working with one entity or multiple agencies, we can use our experience to coordinate stakeholders, identify and strategize goals, and overcome barriers.

As a start-to-finish resource, we can create a master plan for your pedestrian project. We’ll help analyze current conditions, assess needed improvements, identify funding resources and strategies, design and engineer pedestrian projects, coordinate public and agency involvement, and see the project through on details such as connectivity, ADA compliance, landscaping and future project expansion.

We want to create environments that give people a chance to do business, recreate and just plain explore the world around them—on foot. Good design should create alluring environments and connections for people. At Alta, we have the vision to fit all the pieces together and create  people-friendly landscapes that are more than the sum of their parts.

We’re particularly strong in integrating environmental concerns with our projects. Our goal is for each project to improve the environment and make places better for generations to come. We perform detailed environmental assessments to ensure that our projects respect the natural environment. In addition, we emphasize green infrastructure, finding ways to build what’s needed while keeping it eco-friendly.

Featured Projects

Santa Barbara (CA) Pedestrian Master Plan
The Pedestrian Master Plan seeks to bring the rest of the city up to the standards set in downtown, via intersection improvements, sidewalk completion, ADA compliance, landscaping and connectivity.
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Florence (OR) U.S. 101 Pedestrian Safety Study
Alta, working with CH2M Hill, ODOT and the City of Florence, completed a three-stage pedestrian safety analysis of U.S. 101 and prepared a study that examined specific areas for safety improvements.
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City of Berkeley (CA) Pedestrian Master Plan
The challenge of this project was producing recommendations that accurately target areas of need.
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