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<br />Houston-Galveston Area Council <br />DRAFT 2025 Regional Transportation Plan <br /> <br />. Develop a bikeway design/conditions inventory. A more detailed inventory of <br />existing bikeways should be developed to determine consistency with AASHTO, <br />facility suitability, and any safety and maintenance problems. <br /> <br />. Promote appropriate design. Agency coordination between H-GAC, TxDOT and <br />local project sponsors, is needed to identify the most cost-effective approaches to <br />facility design, while maintaining consistency with AASHTO guidelines. H-GAC <br />will continue to develop information resources, provide training opportunities and <br />offer technical assistance to help enhance the level of bikeway design in the TMA. <br /> <br />. Include long-term maintenance in project planning. Project sponsors should make <br />maintenance a key component of their local planning efforts and outline their long- <br />term maintenance plans for projects submitted to the RTP and TIP. <br /> <br />. Develop data and projections of bikeway usage. H -GAC will continue to develop <br />data resources and tools to project use levels and air quality benefits of bikeway projects. <br /> <br />. Provide funding resources. H-GAC will pursue funding strategies to support <br />bikeway development, including increased use of CMAQ funding, providing input <br />for STEP project selection, use of transportation safety funding to address problem <br />areas, as well as exploring non-transportation funding resources. <br /> <br />. Improve project selection criteria. H-GAC will review its selection criteria for RTP <br />and TIP bikeways to better measure the regional significance of a projects. <br /> <br />. Maintain project commitments. H-GAC will consider available mechanisms for <br />maintaining project commitments, including reducing project scope when costs exceed <br />initial estimates and/or providing supplemental funding in subsequent calls for projects. <br /> <br />Appendix C Regional Bikeway Plan and Design Guidelines <br /> <br />Page 12 of 27 <br />