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Longmont council accepts Transportation Mobility Plan, directing phased implementation
Summary
Council accepted the city’s 25-year Transportation Mobility Plan after consultants summarized 16 months of outreach. Council asked staff to use the plan to guide CIP decisions and requested minor edits and follow-up items before full integration into Envision Longmont.
Longmont City Council on March 4 accepted the Transportation Mobility Plan, a 16-month planning effort that lays out walking, biking, transit and roadway priorities for the next 25 years.
City staff and consultants told the council the plan is a data-driven framework combining an inventory of existing conditions with community outreach, prioritization and cost estimates. The consultant team said the plan includes an interactive story map and a PDF report; staff urged the council to use the plan’s priorities when assembling future capital-improvement programs.
The plan emphasizes safety, connected bike facilities intended to lower traffic stress for riders of all ages, microtransit and transit-stop improvements, and targeted roadway and intersection investments. Carly Seif of the consultant team said the plan sets standards for sidewalk prioritization, upgrades to bus stops and a goal to raise the level of comfort for bike routes from higher-stress segments to “Level of Traffic Stress” 1–2 where feasible.
Council members asked for clarifications and minor corrections. Councilor Popkin said RTD ridership numbers in a table needed clearer labeling and asked staff to verify the underlying counts; staff acknowledged revised numbers were requested and said several datasets required verification. Councilor Rodriguez and others asked staff to bring bike-parking code updates and other follow-up items back as implementation steps.
The council voted to accept the plan; Mayor Peck announced the measure carried 6–1, with Councilor Popkin voting in opposition. Staff said they will incorporate edits and programmatic priorities — including a Vision Zero action plan and a proposed bike-share pilot — into the city’s implementation schedule and link the document into the larger Envision Longmont process.
Council members and staff said the plan will inform future funding applications and the city’s five-year CIP prioritization while not mandating an exact ordering of projects. Staff noted the plan contains planning-level cost estimates and recommended priorities, not binding capital commitments.
