Recognizing that the WSDOT Design Manual has traditionally focused on freeway and rural highway-type designs, a major effort of the Safety, Aesthetics, and Context-Sensitive Design Interdisciplinary Group has focused on the development of additional design ideas and guidance for urban arterials.  As such, a team was formed to develop a companion document to the WSDOT Design Manual.  The companion document provides conceptual guidance for the application of context-sensitive design in the project development process. 

The intent of the companion document is to provide a compilation of the issues that must be evaluated in urban highway design. It is not the intent of the companion document to present design guidance: rather, the companion document should be recognized as simply a tool - intended to assist in the development of projects in a context-sensitive manner.  A better understanding of how these issues are inter-related should lead to better decisions as trade-offs are evaluated and optimized. 

The Flexibility document has been published and the web link is  provided below.  

"Understanding Flexibility in Transportation Design - Washington" (aka)
 Safety & Aesthetics in the Urban Environment Companion Document - Status.

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