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2050 Transportation Plan Timeline
- March 2025
- Public meetings for learning and sharing input on your transportation needs regarding the 2050 Transportation Plan for Douglas County (the same information will be presented at all meetings):
- March 5 – 8:30 – 10 am – Parker Library, 201 Mainstreet; Parker, CO 80134
- March 5 – 1:30 – 3:30 pm – Highlands Ranch Library, 9292 S. Ridgeline Boulevard; Highlands Ranch, CO 80129
- March 6 – 10 am – noon – Castle Rock Library, 100 S Wilcox Street; Castle Rock, CO 80104
- March 6 – 5 – 7 pm – Castle Pines Library, 360 Village Square Lane; Castle Pines, CO 80108
- Full 2050 Transportation Plan here
- Public meetings for learning and sharing input on your transportation needs regarding the 2050 Transportation Plan for Douglas County (the same information will be presented at all meetings):
- DRCOG Projects
- Transportation Regional Improvement Projects and Survey
- Douglas County integrated transit & multimodal study
- The survey is open from February 3, 2025 until March 2, 2025. Please reach out to traffic@douglas.co.usfor assistance with this survey.
Easy Ride Updates
- New vehicle is in and wrapped with new branding
- Retaining older vehicle as a spare, for now (1610)
- Best practice is to maintain spare ratio – this will be documented in the BTS
- 1600 MV1 is up for auction
- Opportunity to donate to Vetsgo?
- Need to ask Fleet if Broomfield is able to donate vehicles
- Very difficult to maintain (discontinued vehicle)- was having service issues so not the best vehicle to donate
- Could be an option in the future
- Opportunity to donate to Vetsgo?
- Enterprise article had success getting the word out about the service
- Will be working with Marketing to do a marketing push in April or May
- Will be looking at flyers and mailers
- Transportation will cross promote in newsletter
- DRMAC luncheon went well!
- Stephanie will be doing a travel training in April/May
- Transportation will cross promote in newsletter
Transportation
- Broomfield Transit Study:
- Developing recommendations.
- RTD Information
- May 2025 Proposed Service Changes
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- No changes that directly impact Broomfield
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- Call opens April 16th
- FlexRide Zero Fare Summer
- June, July, August
- May Library Storytime
- Adams County Comprehensive Safety Action Plan
- Adams county hosted 2 focus groups
- Want feedback on how community members travel to essential destinations
- Work
- Schools
- Grocery stores
- Transit stops
- Next steps
- Committee meeting February 25th from 1-2pm virtually
- Will summarize community outreach feedback
- Will also consist of details for next steps for development of the Short Trips Toolbox and Pilot Implementation Plan report
- Committee meeting February 25th from 1-2pm virtually
- Want feedback on how community members travel to essential destinations
- I-70 & Floyd Hill Construction early 2025 construction efforts
- See https://www.codot.gov/news/2025/january/i70-floyd-hill-project-major-milestones-2024for news about current and upcoming construction as well as a summary of 2024 progress
- Winter Season Updates
- Clear Creek Roundabout
- During ski season, offers rides to Loveland ski area Wed-Fri. $10 for adults and discounts for veterans, seniors, & kids.
- Deviated stops can be scheduled if necessary – at least 2 hours in advance, within ½ mile radius of normal route. Call 970-409-6714to schedule.
- Winter Preparedness
- Refresh your knowledge of your county’s Snow & Ice Removal Policy
- Gilpin: Check out https://gilpincounty.colorado.gov/departments-offices/public-worksfor their policy & for maps of what roads they prioritize
- Clear Creek: Check out https://www.clearcreekcounty.us/828/Snow-Removal-Policy-PDFfor their policy
- Refresh your knowledge of your county’s Snow & Ice Removal Policy
- Clear Creek Roundabout
- 2025 Mobility Heroes Campaign has begun. Fill out the nominations at the following link https://boco.org/MobilityHeroesSurvey
- 1/14 APAC meeting updates:
- Implementing new short survey after you call the reservation & customer care calls at the end of march. The survey will be an automated Dialpad survey.
- RTD is still analyzing the data before making changes to Access-on-Demand. Any changes will be implemented on May 1st and feedback sessions are TBA.
- 2/25 1-3:30pm there will be an in-person joint Boulder, Larimer, and Weld Counties Coordinating Councils. Goal of this meeting is to learn the barriers and gaps that people in these communities face and how we can address them
- Boulder Canyon Extra Update
- Boulder County has been contracting with Via to offer Boulder Canyon Extra as of December to address transportation for students (one time in morning and one time in afternoon). This service was voted to continue in afternoon through May 2025. It leaves downtown boulder station at 5:15pm up to Nederland High School and back down to Boulder.
- Winter Bike to Work Day is on 2/14
- Mountain Rides Transportation Update
- Service will continue 3 days/week in January and in February it will go back to Wednesday & Thursday service
- Downtown Boulder Station Expansion
- 5 new bus gates constructed on 14th St. between Canyon Blvd. and Arapahoe. Completion date will be sometime summer 2025.
- RTD Civil Rights Title VI Program Update
- RTD Transit Assistance Grant (TAG) Program https://www.rtd-denver.com/transit-assistance-grant-program
- Provides RTD ticket books or mobile tickets for clients with immediate needs to increase independence, access to community. Last year they issued 229,352 3-hour passes.
- Webinar on 1/23/25 at 1pm
- New micromobility on-demand transit program in Longmont: Ride Longmont https://appadvice.com/app/ride-longmont/6736586322
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