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Missoula Long Range Transportation Plan

Missoula Long Range Transportation Plan. 11 December 2008 Open House. Tomorrow’s roads, transit lines, bike and pedestrian improvements are born here. Many millions of dollars will be spent in the next few decades to keep Missoula mobile

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Missoula Long Range Transportation Plan

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  1. Missoula Long Range Transportation Plan 11 December 2008 Open House

  2. Tomorrow’s roads, transit lines, bike and pedestrian improvements are born here • Many millions of dollars will be spent in the next few decades to keep Missoula mobile • These investments will follow the Missoula Long Range transportation plan

  3. About the Transportation Plan • Federal Government requires a long range transportation plan be conducted by a designated metropolitan planning organization (MPO) • Missoula's MPO is guided by the Transportation Policy Coordinating Committee

  4. TPCC • BILL CAREY Board of County Commissioners • ALEX TAFT Missoula Urban Trans. District (MUTD) • JOHN ENGEN Mayor, City of Missoula • STACY RYE City Council • LARRY ANDERSON Board of County Commissioners • DOUG MOELLER Montana Department of Transportation (MDT-Missoula) • DON MACARTHUR Missoula Consolidated Planning Board • LLOYD RUE Federal Highway Administration • KATHLEEN DRISCOLL Ravalli County Commissioner • DR. GARON SMITH Missoula City/County Health Board

  5. Tonight’s Presentation • Key Plan Ingredients • Envision Missoula Scenarios • UFDA and Missoula’s Future • Summit & Surveys • Agency Input • Plan Goals and Objectives • Costs, Revenues and Constraints • Projects

  6. Gathering Plan Ingredients Transportation Goals Anticipated Costs and Revenues List of Projects Decision

  7. Gathering Plan Ingredients Transportation Goals Anticipated Costs and Revenues List of Projects Decision

  8. Planning for 2035 • Envision Missoula • 3 Scenarios for Visioning Workshops were used in Missoula’s Urban Fringe Development Area Study (UFDA) • UFDA Defines future development assumptions and affects accruing transportation needs • Programmatic (Modal) Allocations • Nominated Projects (Needs Vs. Wants)

  9. Envision Missoula Scenarios Scenario A: Business As Usual • Extend today’s housing trends into the future Scenario B: Suburban Satellites • Growth happens in accessible mixed use town centers Scenario C – Focus Inward • Compact growth occurs contiguously and compactly near central Missoula • Downtown intensifies by building on parking lots and low value commercial sites

  10. Urban Fringe Development Area Study (UFDA) • Considerations for UFDA 2035 Planning Scenario • Open House Comments • Agency Comments • Community Goals based on the Growth Policy • Existing Zoning • Constrained Lands • Entitled Lots • Infrastructure investment • Suitability Analysis

  11. Where the Trips Will BeHigh Concentrations of New Trips DowntownIn Selected Centers Consistent with Envision MissoulaThese patterns do not change today’s needs or “Backlog”Location of Future Trips Frames Assessment of Potential Accruing LRTP Projects

  12. If County follows UFDA future travel needs are mitigatedEven with UFDA, many roads exceed capacity if based on today’s committed projects

  13. Planning SummitFebruary & March 2008 • Vision Scenarios Presented • Public Input Taken About key LRTP and UFDA Issues Including: • Development Choices • Modal Balance • Transportation Investments

  14. Development Preferences • Encourage town centers • Focus growth inward • Encourage growth downtown • Allow more attached and multi-unit homes • Encourage development near public transportation

  15. Transportation Mode Preferences • Public input supports a balance of roadway and non-roadway projects • Majority of people use a non-auto mode at least once a week • The most desirable transit features are short wait times and frequent service

  16. Transportation Investment Preferences • Desire to add more transportation options on existing infrastructure • Desire for increased investment in transit • Prefer a network approach (many small streets) rather than just a few large trunk lines.

  17. Public Survey Summary

  18. Summit Participation

  19. Summit 27 Percent Favor Expanding Roadway Capacity 23 Percent Favor Modernizing Existing Infrastructure (intersection/safety/ITS type improvements) Survey 28.6 Percent Favor Expanding Roadwy Capacity 21.2 Pecent favor improvemetns aimed at Safety (auto, bike, pedestrian) Points of Consistency Among the Public

  20. Agency Input • Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) • City of Missoula • Missoula County • Mountain Line Transit • Safety Agencies • Resource Agencies • Security Agencies • MRTMA

  21. Gathering Plan Ingredients Transportation Goals Anticipated Costs and Revenues List of Projects Decision

  22. Plan Goal Areas • Safety • Higher Rank at High Crash Location • Higher Rank for “Vulnerable Connections (transit, bicycle, pedestrian) • Multi-Modalism • Complete Streets • Expanded Options (trails, new routes) • Increased Transit Funding • Increased Enhancements and Bicycle/Pedestrian Funding

  23. Plan Goal Areas (Contd) • System Preservation • Limit Roadway Expansion Investment, Manage Maintenance Costs • Demand Management • Utilize UFDA to manage number and length of trips/demands on the system • Do not use roadway expansion to open new land for development • Invest in Collectors, not development along arterials • Transit Accessibility • Coordinate new job centers around public transportation

  24. Missoula Greater Downtown Master Plan Supporting Policies

  25. Gathering Plan Ingredients Transportation Goals Anticipated Costs and Revenues List of Projects Decision

  26. From Goals to Investments • Project Ideas are Unlimited but Funds Are Limited • $1.1 Billion in projects have been suggested by state and local transportation agencies • $400 Million in projected revenues are available • UFDA, Visioning, Modeling and Geographic Development Patterns defined geographic “Needs” vs. Wants • Survey Results LRTP Goals and Ranking Criteria determined which needs are to be funded

  27. Gathering Plan Ingredients Transportation Goals Anticipated Costs and Revenues List of Projects Decision

  28. How the Project list was developed • Projects submitted by: • Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) • City of Missoula • Missoula Urban Transportation District (Mountain Line) • Missoula County • Missoula Redevelopment Authority • Missoula-Ravalli Transportation Management Association (MRTMA)

  29. How the Project list was developed • Broad list of projects scored based on ranking criteria derived from: • Public Survey • Public Workshops and Missoula Planning Summit • Assumes Growth occurs consistent with UFDA 2035 Development Projection

  30. Project Map

  31. Backlog projects

  32. Recommended (funding anticipated in the next 30 years)

  33. Illustrative

  34. Summary • Key Plan Ingredients • Envision Missoula Scenarios • UFDA and Missoula’s Future • Summit & Surveys • Agency Input • Plan Goals and Objectives • Costs, Revenues and Constraints • Projects

  35. Missoula Long Range Transportation Plan 11 December 2008 Open House

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