In the Planning and Community Development’s graduate planning studio, students work in teams with local organizations to carry out planning research and provide recommendations for real-world projects in the Philadelphia and Harrisburg Metropolitan communities. Work carried out by graduate student Michael King, ’17, alumni Randall Rook,’16, and Steven Schrayer, ’16, from the 2016 planning studio resulted in the recommendation that Nether Providence Township implement of bike lanes for an alternative form of transportation in the township. Nether Providence Township is currently using the student research as the basis for a grant application to the PA Department of Community and Economic Development’s Multi-Modal Transportation Fund. In particular, the township is focused on bike lanes on W. Brookhaven Road, and to connect the Leiper Smedley Trail to the Providence Road sidewalk via an asphalt sidewalk on E. Rose Valley Road, a main feature of the graduate studio team’s research and recommendations. |