Civil Rights Complete Streets

Birmingham, Alabama

Size: 2.65 miles

The Civil Rights Trail and Complete Streets project provides safe and alternative transportation connections between Downtown Birmingham and several neighborhoods where many historic civil rights events occurred. The project transforms over 2.65 miles of auto-oriented streets to true multi-model complete streets with new or improved sidewalks, crosswalks, bicycle lanes, way-finding signage, trail heads and appropriate transit stop locations. This trail includes twenty-four interpretive signs depicting the history of segregation based zoning in Birmingham. The Civil Rights Trail is part of the Jones Valley Corridor as master planned by GMC in the Red Rock Ridge and Valley Trail System Master Plan in 2011. Funded as part of the $10 million TIGER IV Grant, Road to Recovery Project, awarded to the City in June 2012 and completed in 2013.

Scope of Services
Planning