The top five highlights from the year include:
Years in the making, Boulder’s new protected intersection and underpass make travel safer for everyone with separated, protected lanes for people walking and bicycling. The 30th Street and Colorado Avenue project is part of a set of upcoming projects supporting travel at one of the busiest areas in the city.
A City Council priority, improvements on the city’s Core Arterial Network, or CAN, will help reduce the potential for severe crashes and make it more comfortable and convenient for people to get where they need to go along Boulder’s main corridors.
Projects in 2023 began community engagement on key corridors and built more protected bike lanes — including the first concrete “tall curbs” in the U.S.
We supported cleaner, greener transportation by distributing over 400 adaptive, cargo, and standard e-bike vouchers — including 351 income-qualified e-bike vouchers with higher discounts for eligible community members.
The city also worked with local organizations like Community Cycles to get the word out, coordinate with local bike shops, encourage people to sign up, and teach the community about greener travel options.
I love my e-bike and enjoy riding it. — Older adult E-bike Incentives participant.
The city has been awarded over $30 million in state and federal transportation funds! Funds will support specific projects the city submitted in its grant applications, including projects to help end severe crashes, support safer and more efficient travel, and improve multimodal travel — including for people walking and biking to local schools.
Vision Zero is the city’s goal of zero serious and fatal crashes. The 2023-2027 Vision Zero Action Plan outlines ways to ways to work toward this goal over the next five years.
We asked for feedback, and Boulder delivered! You helped inform projects around the city’s transportation network, the airport, the city’s snow and ice response, streetlight color temperatures, access to Chautauqua Park, social streets and more.
We built strategic safety improvements during pavement resurfacing along parts of Baseline Road, including protected bike lanes and new crosswalks and “crossbikes” — crossings painted green for people biking.
We began holding community conversations for the Iris Avenue Transportation Improvements Project, including an open house, listening sessions, pop-ups and other events, to hear your thoughts, concerns and hopes.
We started construction on the 28th Street and Colorado Avenue Protected Intersection Improvements Project, which will build Boulder’s second fully protected intersection, bus lanes, and sidewalk-level bike lanes to connect to nearby projects.
We completed construction and art on the 30th Street and Colorado Avenue Protected Intersection and Underpass project. This project will provide important safety, accessibility, mobility and drainage improvements, including by building the first fully protected intersection in Boulder and creating almost a mile of protected, separated paths for walking and biking.
Lighting in all underpasses along multi-use paths is now on 24 hours a day to support people walking, biking and rolling. Lights were also converted to light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, which support safe travel and energy cost savings by improving visibility and energy efficiency.
We featured a local artist’s work on new protected bike lanes along Baseline Road and installed an urban design project: a mural crosswalk at Pearl Street and 18th Street. These public art and design projects were installed in collaboration with both the Transportation and Mobility Department and the Community Vitality Department.
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 connect them to transit options for longer trips.
Bus ridership in Boulder continues to rebound closer to pre-COVID-19 levels.
The 19 public bus routes serving Boulder averaged over 21,800 weekday riders in the fall of 2023 — about 19% higher than in fall 2022.
The city collaborated with regional and state partners on transportation projects.
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.
Highlights include:
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