HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-045-03/07/2000-ENDORSING THE NORTH FRONT RANGE TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES FEASIBILITY STUDY VISION PLAN RESOLUTION 2000-45
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
ENDORSING THE NORTH FRONT RANGE
TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES FEASIBILITY STUDY VISION PLAN
WHEREAS, the North Front Range Transportation & Air Quality Planning Council
(NFRT&AQPC),the Denver Regional Council of Governments(DRCOG),the Upper Front Range
Regional Planning Commission,and the Colorado Department of Transportation,have been working
cooperatively for the past two years to complete the North Front Range Transportation Alternatives
Feasibility Study (NFRTAFS); and
WHEREAS, 18 different technologies and 17 different highway and rail aligmnents were
examined and analyzed during this process; and
WHEREAS, population is expected to increase by 43% and employment is expected to
increase by 36% in the North Front Range Corridor over the next twenty years; and
WHEREAS,the North Front Range Corridor transportation infrastructure,which is already
in poor condition,will experience above-capacity congestion by 2015 if no improvements are made;
and
WHEREAS, no significant inter-regional transit service, no high occupancy vehicle lanes,
and no passenger rail service exists in the North Front Range Corridor; and
WHEREAS, several communities in the North Front Range are air quality non-attainment
areas; and
WHEREAS,the Policy and Oversight Committee of the North Front Range Transportation
Alternatives Feasibility Study (NFRTAFS) on December 8, 1999 approved a Vision Plan to guide
transportation improvements in the North Front Range Corridor over the next twenty years,and this
Vision Plan calls for a balanced approach of widening I-25 with high occupancy vehicle lanes,
instituting a regional transit service, and pursuing passenger rail service in the I-25 Corridor.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that the North Front Range Transportation Alternatives Feasibility Study Vision Plan
be,and hereby is,endorsed and that the sponsoring agencies are encouraged to take all appropriate
short and long term actions to ensure its implementation.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held t#s 7th day of March,A.D.
2000.
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