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Missoula’s Reserve Street targeted for future study – Reserve Street Public Working Group (Zoom meetings every Tuesday at 9) & Missoula City and County Transportation Committee Meeting Times

March 1, 2023 /

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Transportation planners have their eyes on Reserve Street, but changes aren’t expected anytime soon.

“The Montana Department of Transportation, the city of Missoula and the Metropolitan Planning Organization recognize there is a need for improvements on Reserve, and have started discussing a potential planning study,” MDT District Administrator Bob Vosen said Tuesday. “This would be to help identify small spot improvements to start with.”

Concerned citizens like Kevin Davis with the Reserve Street Public Working Group (Zoom meetings every Tuesday at 9) have been advocating for such a study for years. Davis would also like to see improvements such as designated crosswalks and protected bike lanes on the popular roadway maintained by MDT.

Bret Anne Serbin

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Kevin Davis writes:

Our Reserve St. Public Working Group had another insightful Zoom meeting today, this time with Shane Stack and Jeremy Keene. Aaron Wilson was absent and we missed his participation as a representative of our Metropolitan Planning Organization. No other officials participated today.

Today we revisited the Jan. 2020 ‘Community Vision for Reserve St.’ where we discussed how very little progress (in terms of planning and execution) has been realized so far for the Reserve St. corridor, along with some of the reasons why. We’ll try to meet again on the topic in June if you and other involved officials would like to participate. Here is the Zoom info to access today’s Feb. 28th meeting and I hope the recording is useful:

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/HBfuPlXTv45–IrMxOhMF26_yFiZZNbdLdxnG0mvWelO2APVa7WswFeg8USp_nam.7iUpvx81auZuimts
Passcode: p^g4ayAg

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If you are one of the people that think that area of Missoula can be improved, there is, at the very least, a forum where ideas and dialogue can be exchanged.

#SmartGrowthMissoula #CitizensForaSaferReserveSt #VisionZeroMT #stroad

Let’s Improve Missoula’s Reserve Street

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Activate Missoula 2045
Missoula Long Range Transportation Plan
March 2017

“87 73.5 Construct Reserve Bike/Ped Crossings at Spurgin, 7th, and River Rd.”

Land use, transportation shift among solutions to Reserve Street congestion

Missoula Current Published: April 24, 2019

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A well-known Missoula high school teacher sustained life-altering injuries in mid-January when she was hit by a car as she was crossing Reserve Street on foot at night.

[Collision Analysis ] The Most Dangerous Intersections in Montana

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This new program may be Missoula’s best bet to get funding for Reserve St. The fiscal year 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunity is expected to open in April for the second round of SS4A grants. Let us know if Missoula plans on submimtting an application so we can write a letter of support.

https://www.transportation.gov/grants/SS4A

Pam Haxby-Cote

State Director

Office of U.S. Senator Jon Tester

125 West Granite, Suite 200

Butte, Montana 59701

406-723-3277

http://www.tester.senate.gov

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Missoula City and County Transportation Committee Meeting Times

Transportation Policy Coordinating Committee (TPCC)

TPCC develops and keeps current transportation planning as an integral part of the comprehensive regional planning for the Missoula urban area. This committee works closely with the City, County, Missoula Consolidated Planning Board and the State to develop and keep current urban transportation planning in the Missoula area.

For meeting agendas and minutes, click here.

Transportation Technical Advisory Committee (TTAC)

The TTAC provides technical advice to the TPCC and technical direction to the inter-agency staff of the Missoula Urban Transportation Planning Process.

For meeting agendas and minutes, click here.

The First Thursday of the month @ 10:00 AM

Water Conference Room (in person) or TEAMS (virtually)
1345 W Broadway St
Missoula, MT 59802

Transportation Safety Advisory Committee (TSAC)

The TSAC is comprised of State, County, City and non-government representatives that coordinate efforts to accomplish the strategies set forth in the Community Transportation Safety Plan (CTSP).

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