In 2024, here’s what we worked on to keep our community moving.
Community members on a historic walking tour downtown.
We asked for feedback, and Boulder delivered! Our community's voices helped shape a range of projects, from public murals to safe streets.
Participants in the citywide Resident Travel Diary Survey helped Boulder track progress toward key city transportation goals, informing future efforts. Findings support ongoing efforts to reduce single-occupancy vehicle travel, continue partnerships to restore transit service and expand micromobility access — ways to get around locally with smaller-scale travel like bikes and scooters.
We completed the Airport Community Conversation project to understand the community's desired future for the Boulder Municipal Airport site and explore high-level scenarios for its future. While community engagement is complete, the city is pursuing additional information requested by City Council on behalf of the community.
Updated our community's most frequently requested maps for getting around town: the Bike Map, Walk Map and a new Bus Map. The maps include both practical paths and scenic routes to explore Boulder.
Brought back our popular guided walks of Boulder as part of our Boulder Walks program for community walking events.
It’s not just roads — everything we use to travel needs to be maintained. City staff work daily to maintain the transportation network that keeps Boulder moving — whether that be our streets, bike lanes, multi-use paths, crosswalks, streetlights, or traffic signs and signals.
A City Council priority, improvements on the city’s Core Arterial Network, or CAN, will help reduce the potential for serious and fatal crashes and make it more comfortable and convenient for people to get where they need to go along Boulder’s main corridors.
Developed a data-driven and context-sensitive process to set speed limits on city-owned arterials and collectors, improving safety and consistency for travelers. The city has completed reducing speed limits on 13 different street segments and aims to fully implement the study recommendations across the transportation system by 2027.
Expand traffic law enforcement with the installation and activation of two new red-light cameras at 28th Street/US 36 and Jay Road and at 15th Street and Canyon Boulevard. The city also turned on speed enforcement cameras at Broadway and Pine Street.
Installed markings on paths across Boulder to mark the route of the Boulder B360 and B180, and W360 and W180 — biking and walking routes that circle all of Boulder. All routes are available on new walk and bike maps and support visitors and residents getting to know our town by bike or on foot.
Artists installed a new mural street in Goss Grove and public art at a bus stop near north Broadway — just a few of many urban design projects supporting public street art citywide.
We began building a new multi-use path near Valmont Road to provide an off-street connection from 61st Street to the existing pedestrian bridge and multi-use path at South Boulder Creek.
Included bicycle, pedestrian and transit facility improvements in the annual Pavement Management Program to help make cost-efficient street safety improvements along parts of Moorhead Avenue and Baseline Road.
Began an update to the Pedestrian Crossing Treatment Installation Guidelines to support safe, accessible travel connections for our community by improving the consistency of new crosswalks citywide.
In 2024, we were awarded over $4.2 million to help fund proposed transportation projects toward supporting safety and connectivity for our community.
Awarded approximately $1.2 million through multiple Colorado Department of Transportation funding sources to purchase 1 battery electric bus, supporting the city’s current HOP bus fleet of electric and non-electric buses, reducing emissions, and supporting travel operations with an all-electric, emissions-free bus.
Awarded a Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) grant of $1.2 million to improve travel reliability, performance and safety. The grant will support improved regional and neighborhood travel connections through traffic signal improvements, which include traffic lights at intersections and crosswalks, on parts of five streets.
We repurposed $3 million in the 2025 Recommended Budget to support managing and maintaining over 4,400 newly acquired public streetlights.
We completed three crosswalk construction and improvement projects funded by a Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) grant. These crosswalks improve the visibility of people crossing to drivers, leading to safer crossings for all, including children and adults traveling to and from four nearby schools.
A new crosswalk at Iris Avenue and 15th Street, with flashing lights and bright signage.
The city's shared e-bike and e-scooter program supports more sustainable local transportation alternatives, encouraging people to take trips without a car and connecting them to transit options for longer trips.
There were over 778,000 trips on BCycle-bikes.
Launched Boulder Clean Commute, aimed at encouraging employers and employees in Downtown Boulder and Boulder Junction to shift away from single-occupancy vehicle trips in favor of more sustainable transportation methods. Employees earn city-matched financial rewards for each sustainable trip, which can be spent at participating businesses in commercial districts.
Expanded local RTD EcoPass options to include part-time employees in the Central Area General Improvement District (CAGID), supporting sustainable commuting options downtown.
The city collaborated with regional and state partners on transportation projects.
Advanced electrification goals in the city’s fleet with 15 new electric vehicles and a new electric street sweeper, using existing vehicle maintenance funds, that will replace a vehicle at the end of its life.
Completed installation of 26 new electric charging ports at five different locations across the city. Twenty-two of the 26 are for city fleet vehicles, and four provide access for the community.
Improved electric vehicle charging infrastructure maintenance processes and performance. More efficient charging has led to a 10% increase in use and over 550 additional charging sessions per month, in comparison to 2024.
Highlights include:
Following changes to state laws to support travel safety, the city will continue expanding automated speed enforcement in 2025.
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