Rick Manning Landscape Architect Selected to Develop City of Albany Bicycle Master Plan

The IBI Group/Rick Manning Landscape Architect Team was selected to prepare a bicycle master plan for the City of Albany, New York. The Capital District has been a leader in developing bicycle paths and trails along abandoned railroad rights-of-way, interstate highways, canal paths, and other linear corridors, with the Mohawk-Hudson Bike-Hike Trail being the centerpiece of this trail system.  The Albany Bicycle Master Plan will plan the extension of this bikeway network onto city streets to develop a comprehensive network of connected facilities.  On-road bikeway facilities will likely include bike lanes, bicycle boulevards, shared lanes, and ‘complete streets’ suitable for safe cycling, pedestrians, transit and automobiles. 
 
Manning is currently working on numerous public and private projects in the City, County and the Finger Lakes region.  These include an environmental art trail at the Cayuga Nature Center (with Claudia Brenner Architects) and the preparation of the Finger Lakes Trail Corridor Protection Plan for the Finger Lakes Land Trust (with Mark Whitmore).   Site design projects now under construction include the new Cayuga Heights Branch of Chemung Canal Trust Company and landscape renovations to the Main Entry Courtyard at Corning Inc.’s Sullivan Research Facility in Painted Post, NY, both with John Snyder Architects. Manning coordinates the TC Chamber Foundation’s Cayuga Waterfront Trail Initiative and the Stewart Park Rehabilitation Action Plan.
 
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