DEPARTMENT: Transportation and Capital Improvements
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Mike Frisbie, P.E.
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Briefing on the Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan
SUMMARY:
This item is a status update on the Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The City is about to embark on creation of a Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan. This Plan will articulate the City's transportation strategy and project prioritization method. The Plan will be developed through an extensive public engagement process so that citizens have a voice on the preferred transportation system to address the City's needs through the year 2040. The plan will:
* Be a critical component of San Antonio Comprehensive Plan
* Help implement SA 2020
* Complement the MPO 2040 Long Range Regional Transportation Plan
* Connect Land use, Development, Redevelopment, and Transportation
* Help accommodate projected growth of one million additional citizens
* Enable City to make data-driven proactive rather than reactive transportation decisions
* Maximizes infrastructure investments from local, state, and federal sources
* Reconcile existing plans, policies, and assumptions
The Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan will cover all areas of the City in an integrated fashion. It will provide for the development, implementation, operation, and integrated management of a transportation system and facilities that will provide a complete intermodal transportation system for the City. The Plan will also be a major component of the region's intermodal transportation system and will be coordinated with our regional partners. Intermodal transportation takes into account all users of the transportation system including people driving cars, using transit, riding bikes, walking, using wheelchairs, special populations, and Americans with disabilities. It also includes additional modes of surface transport...
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