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South Burlington presents draft Active Transportation Plan with prioritized corridors, intersections and crossings
Summary
City staff and consultants presented a draft Active Transportation Plan that inventories existing facilities, scores and prioritizes 64 projects, and recommends policy and program measures; councilors suggested clearer public-facing maps and phasing for residents.
The South Burlington City Council on Feb. 3 received a presentation on the city's draft Active Transportation Plan, a citywide inventory and prioritized list of proposed bike, pedestrian and crossing projects.
Erica Qualen, deputy director of capital projects, and Drew Jengris of VHB summarized a 15-month planning effort that combined public engagement, advisory committee input and technical mapping. The team identified 64 infrastructure projects grouped into corridors, intersections and crossings and scored them against six criteria including safety and connectivity.
Top corridor priorities shown to council included an Exit 14 east-west connection, White Street bike lanes, a Shelburne Road east-side shared path and improvements on Hinesburg and Williston roads. The plan also highlighted priority intersections and crossing locations where pedestrian facilities or traffic-calming changes would provide safety benefits.
The draft includes a design-treatment toolkit (typologies for sidewalks, bike lanes and shared-use paths), program and policy recommendations (education, maintenance, funding and winter operations) and an implementation table that assigns timeframes, planning-level cost estimates and likely funding sources.
Councilors and the public praised the scope and recommended staff publish more digestible, interactive maps that show phased build-out (short-, medium- and long-term) so residents can see what improvements are likely in their neighborhoods in the coming years. Councilors asked staff to link the plan to other ongoing efforts such as Safe Routes to School and the official map.
The project team asked the council for endorsement; staff will incorporate final comments before seeking a formal adoption or endorsement vote.
