Analysis of Bicycle - Pedestrian Trips on the Pelican Island Causeway (Draft Final Report)

A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) about the safety of bicycle/pedestrian traffic using the Pelican Island Causeway for commutes to or from the university campus. The causeway, the only roadway that connects Galveston Island with Pelican Island, is a two-lane roadway that closes to all roadway traffic for bridge raising to allow passage of shipping traffic through the Galveston Channel. The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) has completed a two-part study to address this concern as follows: an evaluation of the causeway bridge from a traffic engineering perspective and a survey of TAMUG students and employees. Specific concerns of students residing on campus as well as those of daily commuters were addressed. This document represents the final results of the traffic study combined with the results of the surveys.