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Consultants present active transportation vision plan recommending city loop, roadway diets and expanded bike corridors
Summary
Benton & Associates presented a vision-level active transportation plan backed by a steering committee and 238 survey responses. Key recommendations included considering roadway diets on selected corridors, creating a multiuse city loop and adding north–south bike corridors to improve connectivity; staff will ask the council to adopt the plan next week to aid future grant applications.
Benton & Associates presented Macomb’s active transportation vision plan to the Committee of the Whole, summarizing steering‑committee and public input and several high‑level recommendations intended to position the city for future grant funding and project development.
Doug of Benton & Associates walked council through the process — procurement, public outreach, a steering committee that included police and school district representatives, an open house and an online survey that yielded 238 responses. The consultant said the plan is vision-level (not an implementation-level design) and is intended to help the city apply for grants and take next steps toward detailed project engineering.
Doug noted four headline recommendations supported by the steering committee and public input: 1) consider roadway diets on corridors with daily traffic counts under thresholds identified by traffic experts to improve safety and make room for bike lanes; 2) pursue a cityloop multiuse path (a 10‑foot multiuse path linking University Drive, Ward/Grant streets and other corridors); 3) add interior north–south bike corridors to improve connectivity between existing east–west bike lanes; and 4) identify launch points linking Macomb to nearby destinations such as Spring Lake, Argyle and Colchester.
"Short version of that is just improving Macomb through movement and connectivity," Doug said when summarizing the recommended vision statement.
Miranda Lambert, the city’s community development director, said she plans to place the vision plan on next week’s council agenda for adoption, which would strengthen future grant applications. The consultant and staff emphasized the plan is a living document and further public input and engineering work will be needed for project implementation.
Next step: city staff will place the plan on the next council agenda for formal adoption to support future grant applications and implementation steps.
