Thread by @shayshinecastle

Next: Transportation projects the city is asking $$$ for. documents.bouldercolorado.gov/WebLink/DocVie…

They're requesting $6.5M from DRCOG, the Denver Regional Council of Gov't, for 3 projects. They are a collaborative group who gets federal and state $$ for transportation projects.

Also asking for $1.5M from CDOT or RTD for one of the projects.

Those projects:
- 30th Street Preliminary Design (Arapahoe to Diagonal)
- Broadway + Table Mesa, Broadway + Regent - Transit Priority Intersections
- Baseline enhanced transit stops, bike lanes (30th to Foothills)

More details on each:

30th Street
A 2.5-mile stretch that connects two important Bus Rapid Transit corridors (CO 119 to Longmont and CO 7 to I-25)
Average Daily Traffic greater than 20,000
On DRCOG’s High Injury Network and Critical Corridor

$1M total project cost (for prelim and final design for bike facilities, transit stops)
- $800K requested from DRCOG
- $200K in local funding match

Broadway intersections (Table Mesa + Regent Drive)
Key transit corridor (last 4 miles of Flatiron Flyer, DASH)
Pre-pandemic, northbound carried 37 buses per hour during a.m. peak

But lots of congestion
Southbound: Transit travel times go from 11 min (off-peak) to 19 min (peak)
On-time performance falls from 85% to 70% in p.m. peak

Project will improve 1 intersection to give transit priority and study the feasibility of lane conversion between Table Mesa and 18th Street, again for transit priority.

$4.8M total cost
- $2.46M requested from DRCOG
- $1.5M from CDOT or RTD
- $660K local match

Baseline improvements include:
- Raised median curb separators for protected bike lanes. Travel lanes are 12 feet and could be made skinnier to beef up 5-foot existing bike lanes
- Floating bus stops (on a little island with a bike lane behind it) - bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

- Consolidating bus stops: 0.8-mile stretch has 7 eastbound and 5 westbound stops. Will go to 3-4 in each direction
- Protected bicycle intersections (like at Mohawk Drive)
- Intersection improvements for peds: 30th St is among highest for ped/car collisions

$4M total project cost
- $3.2M requested from DRCOG
- $800K local match

Transportation Advisory Board approved submitting all of these projects.

They did NOT approve submitting this one:
28th St West Side Multi-Use Path (Jay Road - Fourmile Canyon Creek Bridge)
$3.5M cost ($2.8M from DRCOG, $700K local match)

TAB said it was was too expensive and did not benefit all modes of travel. Staff are recommending waiting until the *next* cycle to submit that one.

I should note that this whole process is called TIP: Transportation Improvement Program.

So DRCOG is the Who; TIP is the What

Boulder has been participating in TIP since it started; I wanna say the 90s, but I didn't write that down. (It's in the packet.)

Again, TIP is the primary way federal transportation $$ gets to local gov't. Flows through DRCOG.

100% certain I have accidentally typed DRDOG instead of COG at some point.

Here's what we asked for the last time we did TIP (or at least the last time I covered it): boulderbeat.news/2019/02/17/bou…

You'll recognize many of these projects, bc we got the $$ for them and they're underway now (or will be soon).
bouldercolorado.gov/projects/trans…

Some of those are:
- 30th + Colorado bike/ped underpass
- North Broadway reconstruction (Violet to 36)
- 28th St improvements (Iris to Canyon)
- East Arapahoe multi-use path and transit stop enhancements
- Purchase of 6 electric buses, arriving in 2023

Benjamin: What's our typical track record with these TIP requests? How are we batting?
Gerrit Slatter, transportation projects engineer: We've averaged a 50-60% rate over the last few cycles.

Mayor Brockett, who I believe has served on DRCOG for at least a few years: We do better than most cities. Our staff does a great job.

Benjamin and Brockett are both pleased to see our new CAN approach reflected in these requests.

You can read more about that here (despite the funny headline, that's what this story is about): boulderbeat.news/2022/03/12/spe…

Unanimous votes for these projects.

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