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Committee recommends adoption of Connect 2050 long‑range transportation plan
Summary
The Public Services Committee recommended that the City Council adopt Connect 2050, a federally required long-range transportation plan for the Cheyenne MPO region that updates horizon years to 2050, prioritizes 104 projects into funding tiers, and includes active-transportation and transit recommendations.
The Cheyenne Public Services Committee on Nov. 17 recommended that the City Council adopt the Connect 2050 update to the Cheyenne Metropolitan Planning Organization's long-range transportation and future land-use plan.
Ryan McHale of Kimley‑Horn, the MPO's consultant, said the update extends the horizon from Connect 2045 to 2050, refreshed an initial list of about 104 candidate projects, and applied evaluation criteria including safety, operational efficiency, livability and multimodal integration. Projects were placed into funding tiers (tier 1: 2030–2034; tier 2: 2035–2039; and so on) to reflect fiscal constraint, and the plan identifies "projects of opportunity" that could be added if funding becomes available.
McHale said the team evaluated roadway capital projects, active-transportation projects (approximately 42 potential improvements), and transit changes. Transit recommendations include a South Route realignment to improve access to the community college, relocating a transfer hub (a building in Westland is being rehabbed for this purpose), exploring inner-city bus services, and including Cheyenne as a potential terminus for Front Range passenger rail.
Committee members asked about micromobility (scooters/bike share), stormwater coordination, transit-funding assumptions and the role of local votes (including a proposed fifth penny sales tax) in delivering projects. McHale said the plan considered a range of federal, state and local funding scenarios, costed projects (noting inflation uncertainty), and will be revisited every five years. Committee members also asked the team to re-examine a local safety hotspot at Converse and Pershing/Delrange.
A motion to adopt the Connect 2050 update carried in committee and the recommendation will be forwarded to the City Council for adoption.
