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Mason Street Transportation Corridor Study
Client: City of Fort Collins
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
The vision of the City of Fort Collins for the Mason Street Transportation Corridor was to link downtown with a University and neighborhoods with employment and commercial centers through alternative transportation modes, including pedestrian sidewalks and paths, bicycle trails, and bus rapid transit. LSA was retained to develop and prepare the plan and conceptual design for the five-mile urban multi-modal corridor in this University town of 120,000 residents. Through an 18-month process, LSA led the Consultant Team from initial idea to concept plan. Utilizing right-of-way along an active BNSF Railroad exclusive transitway, bike trails and separate pedestrian paths were designed to connect the predominate corridor activities within the City. The vision came to life with aerial overlays and micro simulation.
The Plan centered on improvements to the City’s downtown and access to the downtown. It evaluated use by vehicles, buses, pedestrians, and bicycles. To demonstrate the interrelationships between automobile, transit, bicycle and pedestrian transportation within the corridor, LSA developed a VISSIM simulation of the entire corridor, illustrating a driving or bicycling trip through the corridor and pedestrians walking across a street; it also analyzed intersection levels of service. LSA staff coordinated the urban, transportation, and environmental planning, and conducted an extensive public participation and outreach effort. The analysis required LSA staff to convert the North Front Range Regional Transportation Model to the TransCAD modeling platform. The Plan was unanimously approved by the City Council. The success of the concept plan was recognized further when the Plan was selected by the Institute of Transportation Engineers for the 2001 Best Practices Award.
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