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City updates Connecting Aurora multimodal plan after wide public outreach
Summary
City planners and consultants reported midway progress on Connecting Aurora, the city’s first multimodal transportation master plan, saying draft networks are being developed and public feedback favored transit- and neighborhood-oriented futures over a car-oriented future.
City planners on the Transportation, Airports and Public Works Committee on a midproject update said Connecting Aurora — the city’s first citywide multimodal transportation master plan — is halfway complete and moving into development of a proposed multimodal network and implementation strategies.
Huilang Lu, principal transportation planner with the city’s Planning Department, said the project has completed an existing-conditions analysis and scenario testing and is now developing multimodal networks for bicycles, transit, freight and vehicles. “The city of Aurora will provide a complete transportation system to meet the needs of all people. The city will engage the public in the delivery of plans, programs, policy, standards, and projects,” Lu told the committee, repeating the plan’s drafted mission.
The plan’s consultants described three intentionally extreme futures used in scenario testing: a car-oriented city that reflects status quo development patterns; a…
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