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Council reviews comprehensive transportation plan update and presses for safety-first, actionable steps
Summary
Town staff and consultants presented an update to the Comprehensive Transportation Plan, highlighting outreach, guiding principles and data findings. Council members emphasized safety, requested targeted traffic counts (including around Morrisville Carpenter Road), and asked for prioritized, near-term intersection and sidewalk projects alongside longer-term planning.
Town staff and consultants provided the council an update on the Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) update on Jan. 13 and solicited council guidance on priorities and next steps.
Brett Martin, transportation project manager, and Lisonbee Fluitt of Kimley-Horn outlined the CTP scope — a planning update begun in July to refresh the 2019 plan, with a target completion in 2026 — and summarized first-phase public engagement results: safety and security, pedestrian infrastructure and congestion emerged as top priorities. The team presented state-of-the-town findings including AADT traffic volumes (most recent base-year model uses 2019 counts and 2020 base year for some modeling), identified intersection bottlenecks (e.g., McCrimmon at NC 54, Morrisville Carpenter at Church Street and NC 54), crash hot spots and pedestrian/bicycle crash locations, expanded greenway mileage since the last CTP, and existing transit services including GoTriangle routes and the town’s smart shuttle stops.
Council discussion: Members praised the engagement but pressed for the CTP to be more actionable on safety and near-term projects. Several council members asked staff for updated traffic counts for corridors that have changed since the previous CTP (including Morrisville Carpenter Road), for inventories of completed versus outstanding recommendations from the 2019 CTP, and for an intersection operations/optimization study (signal timing and microsimulation) as a potential FY27 budget item. Council members also urged that design decisions not rely solely on post-construction speed studies and highlighted the need to align design speed with community expectations (for example, designing for 35 mph where appropriate rather than retrofitting).
Next steps: Staff said they will continue technical development, coordinate with regional partners (CAMPO, NCDOT), refine multimodal cross sections and bring back more detailed cost-phased recommendations and implementation strategies in upcoming briefings and at a spring follow-up.
Quote: "We want something that’s walkable, bike-friendly, transit-accessible and with a strong emphasis on safety," a council member said, summarizing public input and council priorities.
