Transportation
- 2008 Missoula Long Range Transportation Plan Amendment #1
- 2008 Missoula Long Range Transportation Plan - Final (10 MB PDF)
- 2008 LRTP Open House Presentation
- 2008 Transportation Planning Area Boundary Map
- Envision Missoula Comment Form
- 2008 LRTP Documents
Process Overview
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Missoula is preparing a long-range plan for transportation
Missoula County is preparing a long-range transportation plan
that will shape the investment of hundreds of millions of
dollars into roads, transit and trails over the next three
decades.Transportation decisions are a key shaper of the quality of our lives – affecting our time, our pocketbook, the quality of the air we breathe, and our ability to get things done
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The transportation plan will serve a long-term land use vision.
Although Missoula has planned for transportation in the past, for the first time with Envision Missoula we will combine the transportation plan with a vision for the place we want Missoula to be. We’ll decide how new roads, transit, and trails might encourage that vision to become reality.
A vision can help us learn what development patterns will make our scarce transportation dollars go further. How do we ensure roads stay clear of congestion and transit is well used? Many of the answers lie in how development takes place.
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The vision will grow out of the broader community.
Interactive mapping workshops will be held November 13, 14, and 15. Residents will brainstorm their ideal Missoula using materials that represent transportation routes, new places, and open space.
The results of these workshops will become “what if” scenarios - competing pictures of what Missoula might be like with 200,000 people. Missoula County today has about 100,000 people.
200,000 is not a prediction for how big we will get or intended to say growth is good or bad. By problem-solving how Missoula can be a great place if and when we double in size will help us understand what actions we need to take today to be a great place no matter how big we eventually get.
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Scenarios will explore competing ideas for our future.
For each scenario, a set of impacts to quality of life will be projected. For example: How clean will the air we breathe be? What types of places will we live, shop, and work in? How clogged will the streets be? How much recreational open space will be close at hand?
The Vision will be based on the reaction of citizens and leaders to the scenarios and their projected quality-of-life impacts. An Envision Missoula Transportation Summit will be held in February 2008, using real-time keypad polling, to get these reactions.
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The Vision is a map and a set of principles
Our community’s preferred scenario features tell us what actions we need to take today to make that future real. These actions will be crystallized in a set of Transportation and Development Principles. These will accompany a preferred scenario map as the products of the Vision process.
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Creating the transportation plan
The transportation plan will be based on the vision, will identify projects out to the year 2035, and will be calculated using anticipated financial resources available for transportation. Citizens will be asked to comment on this plan after it is drafted, in the spring of 2008.
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The vision in the coming years
If the vision provides a clear picture of the place we want to create, Missoula city and county leaders may choose to use it as a framework on which to craft new plans for development in the coming years.
In four years, if progress has been made toward implementing the Vision it will continue to shape the formal long-range transportation plan. If progress hasn’t been made, the transportation plan will instead be based on existing plans for development.
2008 LRTP Documents
- 2008 Missoula Long Range Transportation Plan - Final (10 MB PDF)
- Final Envision Missoula Summit Report
- 2008 LRTP Random Telephone Survey Report
- 2008 LRTP Random Telephone Survey Appendices
- 2008 LRTP Survey Presentation
- Envision Missoula Report
2008 LRTP Amendments
The Transportation Policy Coordinating Council amended the 2008 Missoula Long Range Transportation Plan at the August 18, 2009 Transportation Policy Coordinating Committee meeting to add the Upper and Lower Miller Creek projects funded through an earmark from the Western Federal Lands Division of the Federal Highway Administration. The earmark funds are available solely for the Miller Creek improvements being sponsored by Missoula City and County Public Works and will not alter the fiscal constraint of the Long Range Plan.
Public Outreach
Envision Missoula Transportation Workshops - November 13-15, 2007
- Envision Missoula Transportation Workshops - Public Invitation
- Envision Missoula Transportation Workshops Presentation (5.40 MB)
Envision Missoula Transportation Summit Meetings - February 13-14, 2008
- Envision Missoula Transportation Summit Meetings - Public Invitation
- Envision Missoula Summit Meetings Presentation (6.73 MB)
Steering Committee
- Committee Members
First Name Last Name Organization/Agency Bill Carey Board of County Commissioners (BCC) John Engen Mayor, City of Missoula Larry Anderson Board of County Commissioners (BCC) Stacy Rye City Council Dwayne Kailey MDT-Missoula Alan Ault Missoula Consolidated Planning Board (MCPB) Andy Sponseller Missoula Urban Transportation District (MUTD) Bob Burkhardt Federal Highway Administration (FHWA-Helena) Garon Smith Missoula City/County Health Board Kathleen Driscoll Ravalli County Commissioner - Meetings
Steering Committee meetings will take place at the Transportation Policy Coordinating Committee Meetings, held the third (3rd) Tuesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. in room 201 of the Missoula County Court House.
If additional meetings are scheduled they will be noticed here.
Please see the monthly newsletter for brief notes from that meeting, or meeting minutes can be found here.
Citizens Advisory Committee
- Committee Members
Ethel MacDonald BWAM Jordan Hess ASUM Transportation Alex Taft MAST Ray Aten MAST Proxy Bob Giordano MIST Gary Bakke Missoula Chamber of Commerce Kim Murray Missoula Downtown Association Kim Bennett-Buchanan Missoula Organization of Realtors (MOR) Goldie Dobak MOR Proxy Jim Leiter Missoula Building Industry Association Lynette Diaz Neighborhood Liaison Garon Smith Missoula City-County Health Board Erik Englebert Air Quality Advisory Council Andy Sponseller Rail Working Group Dick King Missoula Area Economic Development Corp Chella Markovich MAEDC Proxy Jerry Taylor Wolf Bicycle -Pedestrian Advisory Board Archie McMillan Bicycle -Pedestrian Advisory Board Proxy Bob Reid Emergency Services Jim Clark Missoula County Public Schools Tim Burke Montana Motor Carriers' Association, Inc. (Sammons Trucking company) Sten Sohlberg Montana Motor Carriers' Association, Inc. Proxy (Jones Bros. Trucking) Travis Hoffman Summit Independent Living Center Susan Anderson Sustainable Business Council Eric Weckenbrock SBC Proxy - CTA Architects Engineers Dale Bickell Missoula Trails Bob Oakes North Missoula Community Development Corp Lou Ann Crowley Missoula Urban Demonstration Project Jim Sayer Adventure Cycling Jean Belangie-Nye Lolo Community Council - Meetings
June 21, 2007 Meeting #1
August 22, 2007 Meeting #2
September 19, 2007 Meeting #3
October 17, 2007 Meeting #4
February 5, 2008 Meeting #5
July 10, 2008 Meeting #6
Technical Advisory Committee
- Committee Members
Ethel MacDonald BWAM Jordan Hess ASUM Transportation Alex Taft MAST Ray Aten MAST Proxy Bob Giordano MIST Gary Bakke Missoula Chamber of Commerce Kim Murray Missoula Downtown Association Kim Bennett-Buchanan Missoula Organization of Realtors (MOR) Goldie Dobak MOR Proxy Jim Leiter Missoula Building Industry Association Lynette Diaz Neighborhood Liaison Garon Smith Missoula City-County Health Board Erik Englebert Air Quality Advisory Council Andy Sponseller Rail Working Group Dick King Missoula Area Economic Development Corp Chella Markovich MAEDC Proxy Jerry Taylor Wolf Bicycle -Pedestrian Advisory Board Archie McMillan Bicycle -Pedestrian Advisory Board Proxy Bob Reid Emergency Services Jim Clark Missoula County Public Schools Tim Burke Montana Motor Carriers' Association, Inc. (Sammons Trucking company) Sten Sohlberg Montana Motor Carriers' Association, Inc. Proxy (Jones Bros. Trucking) Travis Hoffman Summit Independent Living Center Susan Anderson Sustainable Business Council Eric Weckenbrock SBC Proxy - CTA Architects Engineers Dale Bickell Missoula Trails Bob Oakes North Missoula Community Development Corp Lou Ann Crowley Missoula Urban Demonstration Project Jim Sayer Adventure Cycling Jean Belangie-Nye Lolo Community Council - Meetings
June 21, 2007 Meeting #1
August 22, 2007 Meeting #2
September 19, 2007 Meeting #3
October 17, 2007 Meeting #4
February 5, 2008 Meeting #5
July 10, 2008 Meeting #6
