After more than 20 years as a sub-consultant to Halff, Bud Melton brings new perspectives in active-transportation infrastructure, urban planning and urban design to Halff’s planning and landscape architecture division. He is an urban planner and lifelong advocate for active transportation. During his previous 20-plus year career as owner of a nationally-acclaimed bicycle dealership, Bud spearheaded the conversion of an abandoned MKT rail right-of-way to what’s become one of the Dallas park department’s foremost civic spaces. During the early ’90s, he secured both regional and county funding for design and construction, and soon-after reinvented himself as a bicycle and pedestrian planning specialist and joined his wife Annie’s transportation consulting firm, Bowman-Melton Associates (BMA). In that role since 1995, he’s managed scores of large-scale bikeway, trail and transit-oriented development (TOD) planning and design projects, and assisted dozens of Texas cities plus several counties with concept development, master planning, funding partnerships and design assistance. He is expert at finding innovative creative solutions to complex problems, and has achieved unprecedented success with stakeholder buy-in. Bud has devoted decades to helping shape the 4-plus county regional North Central Texas ‘Veloweb’ – an interconnected network of greenway trails and bikeways defined in the region’s long-range mobility plan. During the mid-nineties, he served on the IH 635 LBJ Freeway Executive Board to ensure bicycle and pedestrian permeability along the 15-mile corridor re-do, the most significant of which was the Cottonwood Creek Trail beneath the High Five interchange.