Boulder Kicks off Community Engagement to Improve North 30th Street Between Arapahoe Avenue and CO 119 

The City of Boulder has launched community engagement for the North 30th Street Preliminary Design Project to make north 30th Street between Arapahoe Avenue (CO 7) and CO 119 (also known as the Diagonal Highway) safer and more connected for all travelers, regardless of how they choose to travel. Boulder invites the community to help inform the project improvements by sharing their current travel experiences and ideas for better travel on 30th Street via an English questionnaire or Spanish questionnaire, available through November.

30th Street is both a top city crash location and on the High Risk Network — city streets with the highest future risk of serious and fatal crashes. This street is also a key north-south connection in the city supporting a critical number of multimodal trips — walking, biking, taking the bus and driving. On a typical day, more than one in ten trips on the corridor are by foot, bike or bus.

“We welcome input toward redesigning this street to be centered around our community’s vision of a safe, equitable and accessible city — where people of all ages and abilities, from children through older adults, have comfortable choices for getting to their homes, schools, grocery stores, and places of work and recreation,” said Interim Director of Transportation & Mobility Valerie Watson.

This first phase of community engagement is focused on how people use the corridor today and how they would like to use it in the future. Input opportunities through this winter will include community pop-up events, open houses, and walk and bike tours. Feedback from the first phase will help inform the preliminary design options. The next phase of engagement will focus on gathering input on these preliminary design options. Sign up for updates and input opportunities via the project email or the Transportation and Mobility Department newsletter.

The project will follow a Community Environmental Assessment Process (CEAP) for consistency with overarching community goals in the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan. If approved by City Council, the project will proceed to final design and implementation. Project engagement and preliminary design is made possible by a grant from the Denver Regional Council of Governments and city transportation funds.

Work will forward Boulder’s transportation goals to be safe, equitable and reliable, provide travel choices, and support clean air and the city’s climate commitment. The project supports the city’s proactive Vision Zero Action Plan to end serious and fatal crashes, is part of the city’s Low-Stress Walk and Bike Network Plan, and is one of several ongoing projects on the city’s priority Core Arterial Network initiative, the connected system of multimodal transportation improvements along Boulder’s main corridors that will make it safer, more comfortable and convenient for people to get where they need to go.

Learn more on the project webpage.