Green Highways

The Green Highways approach to infrastructure planning, design, and construction is a revolutionary approach to resource protection and environmental compliance. The approach is based on providing predictable pathways to streamline the delivery of transportation projects by the use of incentives and recognition for the use of innovate stormwater and environmental designs that are done in the context, or framework, of a watershed approach. Green Highways are transportation corridors which use Low Impact Development (LID) tools, recycled materials, and locally sourced resources in transit right-of-ways to meet regulatory requirements for stormwater management and highway design. The Green Highways approach takes a traditionally viewed "waste product" of development, stormwater runoff, and uses it as a resource to foster desirable end results such aesthetic improvement, habitat linkages, improved air quality and cooler micro-environments. A multi-agency Green Highways Partnership (GHP) has been formed with the goal of creating sustainable transportation corridor solutions which are cost effective and meet multiple objectives, including green infrastructure development.