TMAC unanimously recommends active-transportation maps to Provo Planning Commission

The Transportation Mobility Advisory Committee voted to recommend Provo’s draft active-transportation (walking, biking and shared-use path) maps to the Planning Commission, TMAC Chair Joy McMurray said during the committee’s March meeting.

The committee’s recommendation approves the maps as a planning-level, “best case” set of concepts rather than fixed construction plans, members and city staff said. Committee members asked for language clarifying that some features shown — for example, stamped-brick crosswalks or specific path alignments — are illustrative and subject to later engineering, funding and right-of-way decisions.

The recommendation matters because the maps are intended to guide where the city will prioritize pedestrian, bicycle and shared-use connections as redevelopment and capital funding occur. Mary Bond of Provo City…