CRPTA to Hear Update on Thomasville Road Multi-Use Path Project – Tallahassee Reports

On Monday, September 13th at 1:00 p.m., the Capital Regional Transportation Planning Company (CRTPA) will get an replace on the Thomasville Road Multi-Use Path (MUP) feasibility examine.

The intent of the feasibility examine is to consider the multimodal connectivity of the Thomasville Road hall from the Market District to Midtown and to what extent, contemplating prices and impacts, can a multi-use path be accommodated alongside the hall from Betton Road to Maclay Road. 

This agenda merchandise is being introduced to present an replace to the Board, together with the options, prior to the second spherical of public engagement which is scheduled to start in mid-September and ending in mid-November.

A Fb web page has been created for the mission.

The Project

In 2019, the CRTPA was engaged within the improvement of the Connections 2045 Regional Mobility Plan(RMP) and the Tallahassee-Leon County Bike and Pedestrian Grasp Plan (BPMP).  In each of those tasks the Thomasville Road Multi-Use Path (Thomasville Road MUP) was included due to its regional and native connections, in addition to the hall being extremely ranked mission by the Blueprint Intergovernmental Company by way of the Greenways Grasp Plan.

Primarily based on the evaluation, from a regional perspective, the Thomasville Road MUP is vital to linking a number of regional path networks collectively.  Such connections embrace tasks evaluating shared-use paths alongside Maclay Road to Meridian Road and alongside Meridian Road to the City of Havana through the Orchard Pond Greenway in Leon County and Iron Bridge Road in Gadsden County.  To the south, the Cascades Park Path leads to smaller Neighborhood Community (recognized within the BPMP) tasks and hyperlinks to Midtown together with a proposed multi-use path on Thomasville Road south of Betton Road as recognized within the Midtown Space Transportation Plan.  

From a neighborhood perspective, the Thomasville Road MUP gives a linkage from the Market District to Midtown as Thomasville Road serves as a commuter and leisure route for a lot of pedestrians and bicyclists.  These linkages additionally lead into subdivisions, colleges, parks, companies, and different trails such because the Goose Pond Path.

The next seven (7) objectives have been developed for the Thomasville Road MUP:

• Security – present secure connections between locations alongside Thomasville Road, and past. 

• Accessibility – create a facility that’s accessible to quite a lot of person varieties and is acceptable for at the least three of the 4 bicycle consolation ranges.

• Community Connectivity -grow community connectivity by offering alternatives to entry locations alongside and past Thomasville Road.

• Constructive Community Expertise – guarantee optimistic community expertise by incorporating pure options, artistic design, and ADA compliance.

• Equitable – make the ability out there to folks with disabilities, low-income areas, getting older populations and areas of low automobile possession.

• Multimodal – accommodate quite a lot of modes on the ability.

• Well being and Recreation present alternatives for prolonged journeys to recreate and train.

Citizen Enter

There was appreciable citizen enter through a multi-faceted strategy that used social media, digital conferences with the residents, companies and different metropolis and county organizations. As talked about above, there can be a second spherical of public engagement which is scheduled to start in mid-September and ending in mid-November.

Usually, the opposed feedback revolved round each site visitors on Thomasville Road and the trail. The Thomasville Road feedback have been associated to the drivers’ pace, site visitors noise and air air pollution. The feedback associated to the trail referred to conflicts with bike and pedestrians utilizing the identical area and at totally different speeds, and security for these such because the aged, youngsters and pets. Others spoke to problem accessing and exiting driveways with site visitors on Thomasville Road being heavy and quick mixed with the next variety of bikes and pedestrians on the trail. Lastly, any tree elimination was a priority.

The supporting feedback associated to enhancing connections to neighborhoods and exercise facilities. From a security perspective, others noticed the site visitors points on Thomasville Road as being a barrier to using the present facility (and present situation of sidewalk) and a path being a greater multimodal choice for commuting and recreation.

Offered under is a timeline for the mission.