BCRTA Multi-Modal Facility

During its design phase, the Butler County Regional Transit Authority’s Multi-Modal Station was planned as a one-stop transfer location for BCRTA services in Oxford, with connections to Middletown and Hamilton, OH. The station was situated at the former site of Talawanda High School and was designed to include a passenger waiting area, public restrooms, bike storage, customer service facilities, intermodal transfer bays, and a proposed Amtrak access. 

Bayer Becker provided surveying, landscape architecture, and civil engineering services from its Oxford office, located just down the street from the project site. Land surveying services for the project included conducting a boundary and topographic survey of the site, preparing easement legal descriptions and exhibits for lease negotiations, and producing utility as-built drawings for post-project records. Landscape architecture services involved designing site hardscape features such as site walls and fixtures, pedestrian-scale lighting, entryway signage, and decorative paving details. These services also encompassed the preparation of plant palettes and detailed site planting plans. Civil engineering services entailed performing vehicle turning analyses to confirm the geometry of the site layout, designing utilities for stormwater, sanitary, and water infrastructure, developing site grading plans, and incorporating low-impact development features such as rainwater harvesting systems. 

The project required extensive collaboration with the City of Oxford, Miami University, and several consultants who were simultaneously designing the adjacent Amtrak station. This synergy ensured alignment of the station's features with broader regional transit and infrastructure goals.