Title
ConnectCOS-Colorado Springs Transportation Master Plan Update
Presenter:
Tim Roberts, Transportation Planning Program Manager, Public Works Department
Todd Frisbie, P.E., P.T.O.E, City Traffic Engineer, Public Works Department
Ted Ritschard, Olsson
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Summary:
The City of Colorado Springs' Public Works Department is leading a major revision to the City of Colorado Springs' Master Transportation Plan (Intermodal Transportation Plan) adopted in 2001. The current major update is referred to as ConnectCOS and will build upon the original transportation plan multimodal implementation efforts. ConnectCOS will provide a blueprint for the next 20 years of transportation planning, infrastructure development, and program improvements in Colorado Springs to bring to life the goals, ideas, and community values established in PlanCOS.
Background:
The City of Colorado Springs has experienced significant change since the adoption of the Intermodal Transportation Plan over 20 years ago. It is time to review the current transportation system and develop a new plan (ConnectCOS) to ensure an efficient, accessible, safe, and well-connected transportation network for our citizens who drive, walk, bike, and utilize public transit.
PlanCOS, the City's Comprehensive Plan adopted in 2019, outlined ideas to shape the future of the city. PlanCOS identified six major goal areas for the community which ConnectCOS carries forward. These community goals inspire the development of the transportation plan and are an area of focus throughout the plan. The resulting actions from these goals will help create a transportation system that is more safe, equitable, sustainable, efficiently reliable, accessible, and connected. These goals help identify and prioritize transportation investments across the community.
ConnectCOS Goals:
Safe - This goal reflects the community's desire to have a safe transportation system, a system of minimal fatalities and injuries and a system t...
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