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Boulder County developing first ever master transportation plan
Dec 28th
Public meetings scheduled
Boulder County, Colo. – In partnership with local municipalities and transportation agencies, Boulder County is in the process of developing the first-ever countywide Transportation Master Plan.
The TMP will outline what travel will look like for those who live, work, shop and recreate in Boulder County 25 years from now.
“We are excited about this planning effort,” Boulder County Transportation Director George Gerstle said. “While the county has many plans in place for the development of its roadway, bicycle, pedestrian, trail and transit networks, we do not have one that looks at the multimodal transportation system as a whole. The TMP is an important tool in helping to identify programs, services, and facilities for public investment.”
Public feedback is critical to the one-year planning process and opportunities to provide input into the draft plan will take place throughout 2011, with the first series of meetings scheduled in January:
• Thursday, Jan. 13
Boulder County Transportation Department
Large conference room, second floor
2525h St., Boulder
• Wednesday, Jan. 19
Centaurus High School
Student Center
10300 South Boulder Road, Lafayette
• Thursday, Jan. 20
Longmont Public Library
Meeting rooms A & B
409 Fourth Ave., Longmont
All meetings will be held from 5-7 p.m., with a presentation beginning at 5:30 p.m. The Jan. 13 meeting in Boulder will focus on transportation issues in the western portion of Boulder County.
For more information, please contact Transportation Planning Manager Julie McKay at 720-564-2662 or jmckay@bouldercounty.org.
Background
Last summer, the Boulder County Consortium of Cities convened the Sustainable Transportation Task Force to guide the master planning process. The stakeholder group – which consists of staff representatives from the communities within Boulder County, adjacent counties, and transportation agencies – has since started to identify the key issues for travel throughout the region. The TMP is unique because, while all of the cities and towns within Boulder County have their own plans, it will provide a picture of travel throughout the region. This includes travel between communities within Boulder County and between Boulder County and neighboring counties.
“Travel largely begins and ends in places other than the unincorporated areas of Boulder County, but the county plays a central role in facilitating travel from place to place,” Gerstle said. “At the same time, decisions that affect how people access and use the transportation system are often in the hands of others.”
State and regional agencies – such as the Colorado Department of Transportation and Regional Transportation District – fund, implement and manage many of the essential elements of Boulder County’s transportation network.
“Given these complexities, our relationship with all of the agencies represented on the task force is very important,” Gerstle said. “We need strong partnerships in order to effectively provide services and leverage the county’s transportation dollars.”
Feedback from the January public meetings will be considered by the task force and presented to the Boulder County Planning Commission and Consortium of Cities in February.
Boulder Shelby Cobra Museum: rare video look at 1966 Ford GT-40
Dec 28th
These days Boulder is known for a certain car dealer on Peal street with a hot electric sports car. But before it became all the rage; Well, here is a rare look at the Shelby Museum back at Christmas 2005 when our cameras were allowed in. This Museum hold all three cars which won Le mans in 1966. The only time an American car company has ever done it. And we have those GT-40 Shelbys here. They are worth about 3 million dollars each. The museum has about 40 original Shelbys . The net worth of the museum is approximately 50 million dollars. It is a private museum and is open for a $5.oo dollar charge to the public on Saturdays only.
Jefferson Parkway not Yah-way Seth Brigham stands alone as only voice against. Liz Payton Not with him
Dec 24th
Boulder Channel 1 erroneously printed a Liz Payton an article included in this article sent to us by Brigham. She has since written to us and stated that she has not teamed up with Seth and want her article removed which we have done. We are clear where Mr Brigham stands on Jefferson Parkway. We are not clear where Miss Payton stands. Boulder Channel One is in support of councils handling of Jefferson Parkway.
OPINION;
Yes, it seems there was almost unanimous opinion by even our elected officials generally stating that, “The Jefferson Parkway
Resolution,” is a bad idea with terrible implications, especially, for the surrounding area and communities. More urban sprawl, for what? 5 Million dollars that will be long gone, but, the “Park Less Way” will be here forever !!! In fact, at first glance this bondoogle appears to be a “boondoggle,” a project that wastes time and money, but in reality it’s a bizarre, sadistic, soul-stealing version of its better known cousin, a bondoogle.
For example, a bondoggle would be a 10-day trip to Rocky Flats for a 2-day shoot on the “Plutonium Preserve.”
While a bondoogle would be the same 10-day trip. Only it snows every day, the Rocky Flats Lounge gives you food poisoning and you’re forced to sit in your hotel in Louisville working 17-hours a day on an erectile dysfunction medication pitch to help out the home office. That, my friends, is being bondoogled. And, so there was a unanimous decision by Council to remain silent on future plans and pass prearranged “Resolution.” Yup, we got bondoggled, bondoogled and “bamboozled,” to practice trickery, deception, cozenage, or the like.
That’s what happens when “principles,” moral rules or beliefs that helps you know what is right and wrong and that influences your actions, gives way for some short term financial gain, all on the premise, the excuse, that we can’t do anything about it anyway. As a member of the public, I often play the part of “the fool,” One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformityin order to reveal spiritual or moral truth.But, I’m afraid we have elected a bunch of “fools,” a group deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding, who…
have served us another “fool,” A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.That’s the dessert you’ve been served on your vacation to Rocky Flats!
