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Consultants present midpoint of Greenville Trails and Bikeways Master Plan
Summary
Consultants told the City Council the Trails and Bikeways Master Plan, funded by a 2023 TxDOT Transportation Alternatives grant, is halfway complete and will prioritize safety, connectivity and an actionable implementation timeline for adoption in summer 2026.
Kelsey, a consultant with HAF, told the Greenville City Council the Trails and Bikeways Master Plan is midway through a four‑phase process and aims to translate the city’s 2022 comprehensive plan into an implementable network. The plan team began work in August 2025 and is finishing needs assessments and feasibility corridor studies ahead of draft recommendations and a second public review.
“The City of Greenville received funding from TxDOT through the Transportation Alternative Set Aside Grama in 2023,” Kelsey said, explaining that the TA grant is focused on planning non‑motorized transportation networks. She said the project will emphasize improving multimodal access and safety, and produce corridor‑level recommendations and an implementation action plan rather than a primarily conceptual document.
The presentation highlighted datasets used to shape recommendations: a crash heat map showing pedestrian and bicyclist collisions, a trip‑potential analysis to prioritize investments that generate the most use, and a level‑of‑comfort analysis for bicyclists that accounts for speed, lanes and traffic volume. Consultants also described feasibility work on two corridors, including preliminary site visits and probable cost estimates for segments of the planned South Loop Trail along Jack Finney Boulevard.
Draft guiding principles presented to the council include creating community connections, distributing network priorities equitably, investing thoughtfully with fiscal and environmental feasibility, and supporting health and sustainability. The team also showed a preliminary typology toolbox that pairs facility types with corridor context — shared‑use paths for non‑road corridors, bicycle facilities in the right‑of‑way and pedestrian facilities off the roadway.
Council members asked whether the final plan will include cost estimates for the full network. Kelsey said the scope includes corridor‑level cost estimates for feasibility segments but not a full network cost estimate. She said the project team plans a third phase with a public open house to review draft recommendations and anticipates adoption in late summer 2026.
