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Redmond staff outlines Transportation Master Plan update and 2025 timeline
Summary
Planning staff presented a Transportation Master Plan (TMP) status update outlining new chapters on curb-space management and technology, modal chapters for walking/biking/transit/freight, community engagement plans tied to Redmond 2050, and a target to deliver a substantive draft to council in 2025.
City planning staff on Aug. 5 briefed the Redmond City Council on progress toward an updated Transportation Master Plan (TMP), describing the TMP as the 10-year implementation tool for the transportation element of the comprehensive plan.
Carol Helen, director of planning and community development, introduced the item and turned the presentation over to Michael Hintz, transportation planning manager, who said the TMP will retain a familiar chapter structure while adding new chapters on curb-space management (including parking, outdoor dining and micromobility) and technology. "There'll also be a chapter on technology," Hintz said, and staff emphasized the plan will include modal chapters for walking, biking, transit and freight and a stronger focus on monitoring performance measures.
Staff noted the TMP was last updated in 2013 and that the plan will build on public outreach completed through Redmond 2050. Francesca Liberti and other staff reviewed a community-engagement timeline and early feedback that has emphasized first-last-mile connections to light rail, expanded bike infrastructure, and e-bike considerations.
On active transportation, staff said the TMP's bicycle chapter will present a future bicycle-network map with prioritized corridors and strategies to increase short bicycle trips. On walking, the chapter will explicitly define pedestrian terms to be inclusive of people with all abilities and mobility devices.
Council members asked about specific safety and curb-management questions: Council vice president Forsyth raised a problematic bike turn at the intersection of Belle Road and West Lake Sammamish Parkway and asked whether curb management would address geofencing for shared scooters and bikes; staff said curb-space guidance and a subsequent right-of-way management plan will address micromobility, loading/unloading and pickup/dropoff zones near transit.
Staff said they plan increased outreach and a substantive draft for council review in 2025, with adoption anticipated later that year. Staff also said the city will retain consultants to provide greenhouse-gas modeling so proposed strategies can be tied to estimated emissions reductions.
Next steps: staff will return with additional TMP updates at a November check-in and aim to provide a draft in 2025 for council and public review.
