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In cooperation with the Town of Essex, the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) contracted Stantec Consulting Services, Inc. (Stantec) to review existing transportation infrastructure and conceptualize future improvements and roadside enhancements along Vermont Route 15 (VT 15) within the Town. Specifically, the priority segment for this review is VT 15 between the Vermont Route 289 (VT 289) interchange in the Essex Town Center and the intersection of VT 15 and Vermont Route 128 (VT 128).

This is the second year of Park Your CARbon, an updated and re-imagined version of the previous Way to Go! Challenge. Park Your CARbon is an awareness campaign encouraging Vermonters to park their vehicle for one trip, one day, or one week in an effort to curb carbon emissions and promote the use of other transportation modes. This report summarizes the media outreach and results.

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.

The Richmond Bike, Walk, and Trails Plan provides a vision, goals and priorities to improve walking and biking in Richmond. The Plan builds upon Town priorities to enhance walking and biking within the Town. The Plan identifies the key infrastructure projects, programs and policies needed to achieve a Complete Streets network that includes off-road trails, paved pathways and trails, sidewalks, and shared roadways and community support for active transportation.

CarShare Vermont used UPWP funding to support our efforts to better meet the transportation needs of households with lower incomes by conducting outreach about the expansion of our carsharing service at four affordable housing developments in the Burlington area, and to promote awareness about our MobilityShare membership, which provides free memberships and subsidized driving rates to residents of the properties (and to all income eligible households in the community). This study helped inform an MTI grant awarded by the Vermont Agency of Transportation in late 2020 to introduce electric carsharing onsite at the affordable housing sites to improve access to both our service and to EVs, recognizing that EV access through ownership may be impossible or undesired for many individuals and households.

2022 marks the first year of Park Your CARbon, an updated and re-imagined version of the previous Way to Go! Challenge. Park Your CARbon is an awareness campaign encouraging Vermonters to park their vehicle for one trip, one day, or one week in an effort to curb carbon emissions and promote the use of other transportation modes.

This is the final report for the North Winooski Avenue Parking Management Plan. This goal of this project is to identify practical strategies for balancing parking supply and demand north of Pearl Street, with the goal of meeting essential parking needs while freeing up space for dedicated bike lanes. This project is an outcome of the previous Winooski Avenue Corridor Study.

These are the appendices to accompany the final report for the North Winooski Avenue Parking Management Plan. This goal of this project is to identify practical strategies for balancing parking supply and demand north of Pearl Street, with the goal of meeting essential parking needs while freeing up space for dedicated bike lanes. This project is an outcome of the previous Winooski Avenue Corridor Study.

In 2017, the CCRPC completed an update of the region’s Active Transportation Plan (ATP) with the goal of creating “a safe, comfortable, and connected regional network of pedestrian and bicycle routes that appeal to all ages and abilities.” Developing a “robust” bicycle count program was one of the key non-infrastructure recommendations in the ATP. The UVM Transportation Research Center (“TRC”) was contracted to evaluate current bicycle data collection efforts in the region, identify gaps and limitations, and make recommendations on how to develop a comprehensive bicycle count program that could better support the region’s bicycle planning objectives.