Palm Beach County receives CTMP progress report; consultants cite congestion, East–West needs and tech opportunities

Palm Beach County on Thursday received an update on the countywide transportation master plan (CTMP) from consultants with WSP and planning partners.

Claudia Bellotto, project manager for WSP, told the Board that the study completed a discovery phase that included 12 public outreach meetings and a public survey that produced “We received over 1,500 responses.” She said the outreach produced more than 400 meeting attendees across open-house events, and that consultants had collected more than 100 planning documents from municipalities and agencies to inform the countywide analysis.

Bellotto summarized four organizing pillars for the CTMP—safety, connectivity, technology and mobility choice—and said the project team will next focus on technical modeling, corridor analyses and hot-spot testing to evaluate how candidate solutions could affect performance. Victor Dover, a planning consultant on the project, described how…