Cypress Waters Trail
Bicycle/Pedestrian Facility Improvements
Dallas County
1.5 miles of 14-foot-wide bicycle and pedestrian trail adjacent to North Lake and 10’ sidewalk along Olympus Blvd, as an extension of the Cypress Waters Trail master plan in the City of Coppell. Utilizing federal funding from TxDOT and traversing through private property in the City of Dallas.
This Dallas County-led project required strict coordination with all vested public and private parties to ensure the schedule is maintained and the project stayed within the budget. Prepared 3D model to ensure that proposed improvements would not encroach on the proposed lake surface. Trail design is being completed in accordance with TxDOT standards, AASHTO Guide for Development of Bicycle Facilities, 4th Edition, NCTCOG, and City of Dallas Hydraulic Design Manual. The project is currently in the 90% design phase and is on schedule to be delivered in February 2021.
Special Experiences related to the design of Cypress waters Trail are:
- Coordination with verity of stakeholders, City of Coppell, City of Dallas, City of Irving, Developer who donated the ROW, and Dallas County and TxDOT as owners.
- Project Manager David Hosseiny has created a special line of communication with all stakeholders, thru out 2018 and 2019, face-to-face progress meetings, and webcast meetings thru out 2020 (year of Pandemic). Our experience with this kind of verity of stakeholders was very challenging, and in the end, the project became a success.
- Innovation related to the design of Cypress waters Trail:
- In the design process, Mr. Fabian Herrera has used 3D modeling, which was very innovative, since has shown a relationship, between the edge of the trail, cross drainage, and all utilities, and allows us to modify utilities and drainage facilities.
- Also, since this trail is next to Northlake in Irving, 3 D modeling has shown a relationship between trail and water surface at the lake.
