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City staff present Active Transportation Master Plan draft; commissioners push for Welsh/Deacon safety fixes
Summary
City transportation staff presented a six-chapter draft Active Transportation Master Plan that adds micromobility and a level-of-traffic-stress analysis; commissioners asked for specific project recommendations and urged prioritizing Welsh/Deacon as a safety hotspot.
City transportation staff provided an update on the draft Active Transportation Master Plan, describing six chapters that set vision, analyze existing conditions, assess needs, lay out system-design recommendations, list programs and partnerships, and provide implementation and funding guidance.
Jesse Damo of the transportation and mobility team said the plan adds micromobility and a new level-of-traffic-stress (LTS) analysis to help prioritize improvements. He noted an open house the previous evening with "about 35 attendees" and said crash maps show bicycle crash concentrations close to campus and pedestrian crashes spread more widely across the city. On the plan’s priorities, Damo described "prioritized mode corridors" that favor active modes on lower-volume parallel streets and pointed to an implementation table that phases projects and identifies funding strategies.
Commissioners asked for more corridor-level detail needed to determine how thoroughfares would change or require easements, and several pushed staff to prioritize safety work at Welsh and Deacon, a crossing one commissioner described as a site of a student bicycle crash. "If we're going to fix one first, let's fix Welsh first," one commissioner said.
Damo said the plan identifies hotspots and proposed projects that would then need funding and implementation; online engagement had just opened and PNZ and council will see the plan again before final adoption.
Why it matters: The plan sets a strategy for bike, pedestrian and micromobility infrastructure across College Station and will guide project selection and funding; prioritization (for example, Welsh/Deacon) determines what safety projects are built first.
What’s next: The draft is open for online comment for two weeks; staff will return to the Bicycle/Pedestrian/Greenways advisory board, PNZ (May 21) and city council for final adoption.
