The City of Burlington has hired R.J. Burnside & Associates to study how Lakeshore Road works for people on foot, on bikes, on buses and in cars, and to draw up a functional design for the waterfront route. The contract is worth $214,695.29, according to the City's award report. Ten firms competed for the work; the City didn't publish their prices.
A functional design is an early planning step: it sets the broad layout of a road, such as where lanes, sidewalks and bike paths could go, before engineers draw detailed construction plans. The study follows earlier design work on the road: in 2020 the City awarded ELLIS Engineering a $279,210.57 contract to design the Pine Cove Bridge replacement and Tuck Creek culvert repairs at Lakeshore Road.
