The new Honey Creek Parkway Bridge relates well to its context. It is part of a network of historic parkways in Milwaukee, WI.
Transportation project planners and designers can find practical guidance on proven approaches to flexible design at Context Sensitive Solutions.org. This collection of flexible design elements features examples from around the U.S. with hundreds of case studies and images of road-design elements like barriers, bicycle facilities, crosswalks, curb extensions, medians, parking, shoulders, sidewalks and more.
Bridges are important functional, and sometimes historic, structures that are parts of transportation networks in both urban and rural settings. In CSS projects, designers are addressing the aesthetic design of a bridge, which should relate to the surrounding context.
CSS principles are being routinely applied by many transportation agencies. The CSS approach to roadway and bridge design fosters collaborative partnerships with stakeholder groups who are interested in and affected by a project. CSS involves open communication and sharing of information and knowledge – both professional knowledge of the planners and designers and the community knowledge that stakeholders bring to a project.
For more information on CSS and the Project Development Process, see the examples and design manuals collected by Contextsensitivesolutions.org.
