Traffic Garden Designs
Welcome to Traffic Garden Designs by Finn Quinn. We offer ready-to-install traffic garden plan sets that transform underused pavement, including schoolyards, parks, playgrounds, courts, and parking lots, into engaging bike safety and street learning environments. Our contractor-ready drawings and practical installation guidance make it easy to plan, price, and build a traffic garden with confidence. Based on real-world projects, each design is adaptable to a range of sites and intended for long-term performance once installed.
What is a Traffic Garden?
Traffic gardens are small-scale street networks where kids learn to bike and practice real-world road skills in a safe, car-free space. Using traffic markings, signs, and simplified layouts, these spaces turn everyday asphalt into places for practice, play, and confidence-building. Kids have fun while developing lifelong biking and road safety skills.
Designed with street features like intersections and roundabouts, using realistic markings that reflect everyday streets
Flexible spaces that support instruction, informal play, group classes, and family gatherings
Suitable for a wide range of users, from young children on balance bikes to older students building road skills
Why Traffic Garden Designs?
Traffic Garden Designs was created to remove the guesswork that slows progress and guide projects from idea to installation. Our contractor-ready plan sets are based on real-world projects, designed for durability, and aligned with available sites.
As the first semi-standardized traffic garden system in the U.S., we combine proven design with a direct route to installation. Our partnership with SealMaster provides access to a national contractor network, dependable pricing, and consistent high quality.
There’s no need to start from scratch. You begin with tested, complete plan sets that can be lightly customized to fit your site, ready to transform existing pavement into spaces for learning and play.
Clear path from concept to installation with guidance at every step
Designs that support learning, play, and community use
Flexible designs that fit a wide range of available sites and standard courts
Overview of Products and Services
Traffic Garden Designs offers ready-to-use plan sets, with optional customization and practical guidance to move your project from concept to installation with clarity. We also help connect you with local contractors and early pricing to support decisions from the start.
Traffic garden plan sets with optional AutoCAD files for project integration
Optional site-fit customization to adapt layouts to your space and constraints
Practical guidance and resources to support pricing, siting, and installation
Our Core Values
Our work is grounded in a clear set of values that guide every design, decision, and partnership. These principles reflect our commitment to quality, practicality, and lasting impact, shaping how we transform everyday spaces into meaningful places for learning, movement, and community connection.
Real-World Practicality
We design with implementation in mind, helping our clients plan, price, and move forward with confidence. Through clear drawings, installable details, and a strong understanding of materials, and site constraints, we make it easier to turn ideas into built projects.
Design and Durability Excellence
We believe thoughtful, well-crafted quality design matters. Our layouts are intuitive, engaging, and built to last. We want them to reflect how real streets operate in a way that is clear, practical, and enjoyable for program organizers and participants alike. With “By Finn Quinn” in our name, we stand behind that quality personally.
Children First: Play to Learn
We design every traffic garden with children at the center, creating spaces where they can play, practice, and take risks in a safe, supportive environment. Through movement and fun, children build real-world skills, confidence, and independence while creating joyful memories.
Lasting Impact
We believe underused asphalt is an opportunity that is hidden in plain sight all over. By transforming it into durable, adaptable community assets, we put existing infrastructure back to work to strengthen our communities and create places that turn these spaces into active places for kids.
Testimonials
"The residents/kids at Woodmont Park L-O-V-E the traffic garden. We’ve received countless compliments from them."
Jim Teller
Vice President, Marketing, Kay Apartments
"I love working with Fionnuala Quinn. She has a wealth of knowledge on the subject, she always goes above and beyond on her services and thinks of the smallest of details that would make a huge difference on the final product."
Andrea Garland
TDM Director, RVARC
"I was involved with the installation of the first ever traffic garden in Huntington Park Columbia, Maryland. This project was done by a contractor that had never done a traffic garden before. They were able to do the project in five days because the drawings that were created by Fionnuala Quinn were so detailed. It was easy for this contractor that typically does tennis courts and pickleball courts to complete this project in five days."
Tom Decker Jr.
President, SealMaster
"Amazing experience working together yielded an awesome outcome."
Stephen Rowley
Education Director, Cascade Bicycle Club
"Fionnuala was wonderful to work with. Her clear expertise and patient coordination with the local communities made the project a pleasure. "
Hannah Day-Kapell
Principal - Director of Planning, Alta Planning + Design
"We loved the the direct contact and experience with Fionnuala and her team on our project. The quality of the final design, as well as the collaboration and expertise she was able to provide through the internal and public design development process were unmatched."
George Berger
Senior Greenways & Parks Planner, City of Concord, NC
"Fionnuala answered all my questions and even ones I didn’t know I had, and provided an overview of the process for getting from “here” to “there.” Although the partnership might have been able to build the traffic garden without her counsel, it would have been a prolonged and clumsy process—and it would not have turned out as spectacularly as it did."
Steve Garon
Safe Routes to School and Healthy Community Action Team Program Coordinator for Waynesboro Walk and Wheel.
Our Projects in Action
A curated selection of traffic gardens we’ve designed and helped bring to life across a wide range of sites, reflecting the diversity of communities, contexts, and opportunities these projects serve.
