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Mopac Mobility Improvement Project Open House
November 24 @ 3:52 pm
Open House
Come and learn more about the project and provide your feedback! Get a free smoothie for your participation from 11am-noon. Join the facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/376982235694147/
When: Saturday, July 14th from 8am-noon
Where: The Johnson Creek Trail Head, located on Veterans Drive , just southwest of the Austin High Tennis Courts, near the RunTex water station. Click here for a location map: http://goo.gl/maps/hYw3
Briefings to City of Austin Boards and Commissions meetings:
July 9th – Parks and Recreation Board Land, Facilities, and Programs sub-committee
July 10th – Urban Transportation Commission
July 18th – Environmental Board
July 24th – PARB Board
August 15th – Urban Forestry Board
Contact Us
The project team can email updates directly to you. Your address will remain confidential and will be used solely for the purpose of sending updates about the project. Contact Chad Crager, Project Manager, (512) 974-43570.
Mopac Mobility Improvement Project
Background
In order to address traffic congestion in the Mopac corridor, the City and State are partnering on the Mopac Mobility Improvement Project. It has three phases totaling approximately 2 miles of bicycle, pedestrian, and motor vehicle mobility improvements in the Mopac corridor from essentially Loop 360 to Southwest Parkway . Improvements to this corridor were identified in the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan, the Bicycle Master Plan, and by the 2007 Mayor’s Street Smarts Task Force.
Phase I includes a bicycle/pedestrian bridge over Loop 360 at Mopac. Phase II includes a bicycle/pedestrian bridge over Barton Creek at Mopac, the restriping of the southbound lanes of Mopac at the bridge over Barton Creek to improve motor vehicle congestion, and improved bicycle and pedestrian connections to Southwest Parkway, Loop 360, and other planned trails in the area (the Violet Crown and the Oak Hills Neighborhood Trail System). Phase III is a wide sidewalk that would accommodate bicycles and pedestrians on the west side of Mopac from Loop 360 to Barton Creek Square Mall, or Tamarron Boulevard . Phases I and II are completely funded. Phase III is not yet funded for design or construction.