Sustainable Transportation Planning Study

DESCRIPTION
The City has identified the following outcomes of a Sustainable Transportation Planning study:

• Build consensus and support from stakeholder groups to achieve the greatest sustainable transportation benefit for the most people.
• Define inspiring and measurable goals against which all individual projects can be measured. Measurable goals, for instance, could be to reduce the growth of vehicle use.
• Provide neutral expertise (i.e. not from stakeholders) that can challenge our perceived constraints, suggest best practices, share success stories from other comparable small town/rural communities, apply creative problem solving, and achieve consensus on appropriate standards and guidelines for meeting our goals.
• Include formal partnerships from other jurisdictions (Bainbridge taxing districts, Kitsap Transit, WSDOT, and WSF) to maximize opportunities for new solutions and support for those solutions.
• Communicate a compelling vision and a high-level plan based on these goals and partnerships, with appropriate visualizations, technology enhancements, illustrations, and narrative to tell a story that is accessible to all islanders.

ACTIVITY
The City of Bainbridge Island has contracted with Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, a transportation planning firm, to prepare a scope of work for our Sustainable Transportation planning project.