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Figure 10.1: The Outer Loop Project Demonstrates Temple's Expanding Transportation Network
10.MOBILITY RECOMMENDATIONS
The City of Temple is a diverse place that is growing rapidly. The city’s vision for a multimodal transportation system requires plans that will balance the needs of different people to move efficiently about the community. While it may not be necessary for every roadway to carry all modes of travel, the goal is for the transportation network to provide meaningful choices for all travelers. Access to a range of mobility options enables people to live where they wish and provides access to employment, education, and healthcare. This results in greater quality of life for residents and greater economic vitality for the City. This chapter discusses mobility options for the City of Temple within the MMP planning horizon. The MMP mobility recommendations described in the following sections were developed based on the Goals and Objectives (Chapter 2) the public and stakeholder feedback (Chapter 3), the findings of the comprehensive system assessment (Chapters 4 and 5), the scenario analysis and testing of alternative solutions (Chapter 6), the Active Transportation Plan (Chapter 7), the Transit Vision plan (Chapter 8) and the review of the current Thoroughfare Plan and existing street network (Chapter 9). A critical part of the MMP development was analyzing the output from these various technical analyses and the feedback from the stakeholders to develop multimodal mobility recommendations. The recommendations described in the following sections describe desirable components of an enhanced multimodal transportation network. Proposed elements include intersection operational and infrastructure improvements, roadway infrastructure improvements, multimodal facilities, safety improvements, transportation demand management strategies, and revisions and updates to city programs and policies to make them consistent with the MMP recommendations and to prepare the city for dealing with emerging smart city and smart transportation technologies. Figure 10.2 shows some of the key modal mobility areas addressed in the recommendations. Recommendations include physical projects, policies to improve transportation system operations, or programs to improve project delivery identified throughout the planning process that would benefit the multimodal network. The MMP development process took a comprehensive view of the transportation system, but for clarity, the following recommendations are categorized by mode.
Figure 10.1: The Outer Loop Project Demonstrates Temple's Expanding Transportation Network
