Bowman was engaged by the MBTA for a four-year, $7M contract to plan, design and construct a wide range of bus system infrastructure projects to further upgrade and enhance bus system accessibility, safety, state of good repair, service reliability, travel times, and system wide expansion. Improvements focused on a wide range of bus priority treatments, ADA and accessibility compliance, customer comfort and convenience, and better pedestrian connections to adjacent neighborhoods.
Bus Corridor Improvements included providing design and construction services for bus and multi-modal corridor improvements, such as center and side running bus lanes, full-time and peak-only exclusive bus and shared bus bike lanes, bus stop curb extensions, floating stops, separated bicycle lanes, and other bus stop, sidewalk and intersection enhancements. Transit, bicyclist, pedestrian and general traffic signal improvements were also considered.
20 miles of corridor had been assigned in Boston: Warren Street and Malcolm X Boulevard, Roxbury; Washington Street and Corinth Street, Roslindale; Summer Street and North Washington Street, Downtown; Brighton Avenue and Cambridge Street, Allston; and Maverick Square in East Boston; and along Washington Street in Somerville; Broadway in Chelsea; North Shore Road in Revere; Broad Street and Lynnway in Lynn; and Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington.
We reviewed the Green Line Transformation’s Huntington Avenue bus lane plans for the E-Line shutdown, prepared bus lane standards for MassDOT and managed a team advancing Hyde Park Avenue transit enhancements and bus shelter designs.
Bus Stop Improvements advanced about 40 critically deficient bus stops in 15 municipalities and a new crosswalk at Fenway Station into preliminary design and final design. We also evaluated and organized clusters of over 400 stops in 11 municipalities, including about 150 high priority stops, developing concept designs to address deficiencies at each of these stops plus their reciprocal stop or developing elimination plans, and advancing approximately 60 stop pairs into preliminary and final design. Construction phase services were also provided.