Capital Improvement Program
2024-29 Transportation & Mobility Department Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Summary
Spending on Projects within Transportation & Mobility
Overview of Transportation & Mobility Projects
The Transportation & Mobility Capital Improvement Program (CIP) is the primary way in which the goals of the City of Boulder 2019 Transportation Master Plan are accomplished. These goals may include design and construction projects that provide transportation infrastrure enhancements, programs that help to preserve existing infrastructure, and other efforts and inititvies that improve safety and mobiility for residents and travlers in the community.
30th St Corridor Study & Preliminary Design
30th St. is a vital north-south corridor in the City and the segment from Arapahoe to the Diagonal will be studied to identify ways to make biking, walking, driving and taking transit safer and more convenient. This project will produce a preliminary design that will be used to pursue future grant opportunities for funding final design and construction.
Total Project Budget: $1,000,000
2024 Budget: $1,000,000
Estimated Completion Date: 2025
Baseline Road Phase 2 Improvements
This project will reconstruct build upon Phase 1 improvements to Baseline Road that occurred during 2023 to enhance and expand multimodal treatments to the corridor that improve safety and mobility.
Improvements include improved transit stop treatments, protected bike lanes and intersections and safer pedestrian crossings and ADA improvements.
Total Project Budget: $3,980,000
2024 Budget: $860,000
Estimated Completion Date: 2026
Broadway BAT Lanes
The Broadway Business Access and Transit
(BAT) Lanes project will implement modifications to the intersections at Broadway and Table/Mesa and Broadway and Regent Drive that will create the space for a continues BAT lane from Table Mesa to Regent. This will improve both regional and local transit reliability in pursuit of the community climate action goal to reduce single occupancy vehicle travel.
Total Project Budget: $4,600,000
2024 Budget: $1,500,000
Estimated Completion Date: 2026
47th St & BNSF Sidewalk Crossing
47th Street and BNSF railroad crossing lacks a sidewalk crossing and for many years has been a top priority in the missing sidewalk links needs list. This project will connect the existing sidewalks on the north and south with a new sidewalk across the BNSF railway tracks.
Total Project Budget: $ 936,250
2024 Budget: $300,000
Estimated Completion Date: 2026
Core Arterial Network
The city is focusing investments and resources to design and construct improvements on a “Core Arterial Network” (CAN). The CAN is the connected system of protected bicycle lanes, intersection enhancements, pedestrian facilities, and transit facility upgrades that will help reduce the potential for severe crashes and make it more comfortable and convenient for people to get where they need to go along Boulder’s main corridors.
In January 2022, the Boulder City Council, in partnership with the Transportation Advisory Board (TAB), elevated work on the CAN as one of its 10 priorities for city department efforts. City Council will host a study session, tentatively slated for November 2022, to review project development progress.
2024-2029 Planned Spending: $3,375,500
2024 Budget: $412,000
Estimated Completion Date: Ongoing
Pavement Management Program
Through the city's Pavement Management Program (PMP), all streets in Boulder's 300-mile street system are inspected every three years to check existing conditions and guide where pavement repairs will be made.
The Pavement Management Program Mobility Enhancements Initiative incorporates bicycle and pedestrian facility improvements into annual pavement resurfacing work to help make our streets safer for walking and biking.
2024-2029 Planned Spending: $32,488,288
2024 Budget: $5,400,000
Estimated Completion Date: Ongoing
Missing Sidewalk Links Program
Construction of missing sidewalk links supports "Pedestrian Policy Plan of the TMP" (Transportation Master Plan) by eliminating breaks and discontinuities in the sidewalk system and ensuring adequate connections to transit.
The Transportation and Mobility Department prioritizes the construction of small and large missing sidewalk link projects based on several factors, including existing utility and roadway conditions.
2024-2029 Planned Spending: $925,000
2024 Budget: $125,000
Estimated Completion Date: Ongoing
Violet Avenue Bridge
The existing Violet Avenue bridge over Four-Mile Canyon Creek is in poor condition and one of the worst rated bridges in the City. With the adjacent Violet Park planning efforts underway by the Parks and Recreation Department, the Transportation and Mobility Department is taking the opportunity to prepare a final designs (construction funding not yet identified) for the Violet Avenue bridge and also coordinating with the Utilities Department on need improvements to the Four-Mile Canyon Creek Conveyance Channel. This is a multi-departmental effort to address infrastructure deficiencies and make enhancements to this historically underserved area.
Total Project Budget: $1,500,000
2024 Budget: $500,000
Estimated Completion Date: TBD
East Arapahoe Final Design
The City has partnered with CDOT to continue the design of CO 7/East Arapahoe between 28th St and Foothills Parkway. The design will advance the concepts developed in the East Arapahoe Transportation Plan and being refined in a 15% level design currently being led by CDOT. This final design effort will take place in 2024 and 2025 in close cooperation with CDOT and will set the stage for future grant funding opportunities for implementation and construction.
Total Project Budget: $2,966,000
2024 Budget: $680,000
Expected Completion: Ongoing