The Town of Essex's Active Transportation Plan (ATP) provides the vision, goals, and strategic recommendations designed to advance active transportation throughout the Town. The ATP focuses on prioritizing and implementing infrastructure and initiatives to create a safe, desirable and connected network for biking and walking in the Town.

The Regional Transportation Options Plan, also known as a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Plan, serves as a guiding framework for Chittenden County to enhance transit services, strengthen bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and introduce and expand effective shared mobility solutions. These objectives are critical to reducing the region’s high reliance on single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs), curbing vehicle miles traveled (VMT), and meeting sustainability, equity, housing, and climate-related goals of the region. The Regional TDM Plan includes recommended actions, lead and partner entities, and proposed timeline for implementation.

The Regional Transportation Options Plan, also known as a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Plan, serves as a guiding framework for Chittenden County to enhance transit services, strengthen bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and introduce and expand effective shared mobility solutions. These objectives are critical to reducing the region’s high reliance on single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs), curbing vehicle miles traveled (VMT), and meeting sustainability, equity, housing, and climate-related goals of the region. The Regional TDM Plan includes recommended actions, lead and partner entities, and proposed timeline for implementation.

With the upcoming construction of the I-89 Exit 14 bicycle-pedestrian bridge in South Burlington, a major impediment to active transportation in the Chittenden County region will be addressed. However, the bridge project is limited to only the bridge and landings and does not include connections to existing and planned active transportation infrastructure. The City of South Burlington initiated the Bike/Pedestrian Bridge over I-89 Connections project to identify priority improvements to connect people and places in the areas surrounding the I-89 bridge. Due to other concurrent studies that addressed most locations in this project, the study concluded by offering conceptual recommendations for further consideration at two sites: Williston Road: Interchange to Jughandle and Quarry Hill/Spear Intersection.

The goal of this update to the CCRPC's Active Transportation Plan (ATP) is to produce a region-wide Plan for existing and future bicycle and pedestrian facilities and programs that will serve as the active transportation element of the CCRPC’s long-range Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP). This plan update builds upon previous plans and projects and ensures that ongoing active transportation initiatives are coordinated across the County to provide a cohesive and useful pedestrian and bicycle network.

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The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC), in association with the Cities of South Burlington and Burlington, initiated a scoping study for a bicycle and pedestrian connection between the Lindenwood Drive intersection on US Route 7 in South Burlington, along Queen City Park Road and Austin Drive, to the Burlington Waterfront Greenway, commonly called the Burlington Bike Path.

This project was an update to the 2017 evaluation and preferred alternative selection on ways to improve walking and cycling along this 1.7 mile corridor in Hinesburg. For this update the consultant identified how to break the path into segments with cost estimates for each as a way for the Town to seek design/construction funding.

The CCRPC and the City of Burlington partnered to identify options to improve connectivity for low-stress bicycling, improved pedestrian crossings, and stormwater management in the southwest section of the Old North End – one of Burlington’s densest and most diverse neighborhoods. The final report includes conceptual designs and conceptual cost estimates for the preferred alternatives connecting Battery Park, the Old North End Neighborhood Greenway, the Depot Street Neighborhood Greenway, and the Lakeview Terrace Neighborhood Greenway.

This is the Appendix for the 2020 South Burlington Pedestrian and Bicycle Feasibility Study - Phase 2 study that evaluated the feasibility of additional sidewalk and shared use paths at four (4) proposed study site locations: Spear Street from UVM George D. Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory to the Shelburne town line; Hinesburg Road from Williston Road to Kennedy Drive; Allen Road from Baycrest Drive to Shelburne Road, Harbor View Road from Shelburne Road to Baycrest Drive, and Baycrest Drive from Harbor View Road to Allen Road; and Fayette Drive from Queen City Park Road to Shelburne Road.