Transportation - Public Involvement
- Topics of Interest
- Transportation Updates - Monthly Newsletter
- Public Participation Plan
- Guide to Public Participation Opportunities
Topics of Interest
This section is dedicated to topics of Public Interest, the topics posted here are those for which many public inquiries have been made, discussions are ongoing, and there is information or graphics too large to email.
Missoula wins an AMPO award for Envision Missoula
These awards honor excellence in the planning field. The winners will be honored on October 28, 2009 during the opening night of the annual Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO) conference in Savannah, GA.
Russell Street & South 3rd Street Peer Review Status
In response to a request from City Council,
Kittleson & Associates is conducting a Traffic Analysis Update of the
Russell Street / South 3rd Street Draft Environment Impact
Statement. Here are links to
Technical Memo No. 1,
Technical Memo No. 2 and
Technical Memo No. 3 and the
final report.
The visual simulations are
available, however, they are too large (600 MB) to place on the ftp
site.
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Active Missoula - TIGER Grant Application
Active
Missoula - TIGER Grant Application (09/15/2009)
Orange Street -Van Buren Interchange - Noise Abatement
This is an MDT project and the graphics posted here are have been obtained from MDT. Any questions regarding this project should be directed to Joseph Guenther at CH2M Hill Joseph.Guenther@CH2M.com or to Shane Stack (MDT) sstack@mt.gov
Below are PDFs of the visuals MDT had at the Open House on June 28th at the Missoula International School:
- Project Description
- Noise Barrier Examples
- Noise Barrier Option 1
- Noise Barrier Option 2
- Noise Barrier Option 3
- Orange Street Interchange Roundabout
- Van Buren Interchange Roundabout
- Signalization
- Noise Issues Yet To Be Resolved
- What's Next
Meeting Summaries from June 2006:
Transportation Updates
The Transportation Update Newsletters are designed to inform you of current planning events, upcoming meetings, give you transportation project updates, and to keep you abreast of what is new and exciting in the world of transportation planning in the Missoula Valley.
2009 Newsletters
You can receive these monthly notices via email by contacting Mirtha Becerra at mbecerra@co.missoula.mt.us.
Public Participation Plan
This document is a “people’s” participation plan. The plan outlines the strategy that will be followed to conduct outreach, public education, and gather public input. The plan contains an in depth explanation of the procedures we will use along with a table of outreach methods we will be using. The appendix contains all excerpts from the federal regulations, definitions of complex and key terms, as well as a list of interested parties to whom information on transportation distributed.
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2010
Public Participation Plan Revision - Legal Ad (01/20/2010)
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2010
Public Participation Plan Revision - Draft Document (01/20/2010)
- Public Participation Plan - Adopted 6/20/06 as approved by TPCC, MDT, and FHWA
Guide to Public Participation Opportunities
There are three main programs we work with.
- The Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP):
Identifies how we will be interacting with other agencies annually; it lays out how much time staff will spend working on specific programs or projects. Additionally it defines how much money will be set aside for studies.
- The Long Range Transportation Plan:
This is our umbrella document from which the TIP is derived. It outlines the goals and objectives for our entire system, including roadways (upgrading, maintaining, and new), bicycle lanes and paths, sidewalks, and bus system. The plan looks at the existing system. The plan analyzes the deficiencies, it also conducts evaluations on safety, the transit system, the truck and train routes, and the bicycle and pedestrian system as it is today. The plan also looks at how we are managing travel demand through our programs designed to promote travel by means other than a single occupant vehicle (this is called travel demand management).
After the analysis of the current system the plan looks to the future, exploring population, employment and traffic projections. This attempts to give us a picture of what we will need to plan for. From this we look at the maximum capacity of the current system and figure out where things will need to change. Once that is accomplished the plan continues to offer a breakdown of suggested options for how to implement the changes.
Changing the system costs money. After suggesting ways to alter the system to meet future needs, the plan discusses financing. A thorough description funding is given to explain how the different types of projects are paid for.
The final chapter in this document is the recommended plan, complete with graphs and charts to demonstrate how to go about updating our transportation system to satisfy our goals and objectives.
There are an enormous amount of pubic participation opportunities during the Long Range Transportation Plan Update.
- The Transportation Improvement Program (TIP):
The TIP pulls prioritized projects from the LRTP and outlines all the traffic related, bicycle, pedestrian, road, transit, and other projects slated for the next 5 years. This program is updated every year.
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