This should be about a good 40-ish minute presentation and some time for some uh some questions.

Yeah, so just if you want to go ahead and plug in.

Um we have uh as part of our updates to all of the elements of our general plan.

We are also updating our transportation master plan that's been one of the most uh uh and I'll say dated in that it in need of an update.

So we have a consulting group that is assisting us with that that was funded through uh some grants that we received.

Uh so we have them here tonight to present uh and this is the I'll call it the kickoff presentation, although they have some some data and things to go over with us.

Uh so we'll we'll turn the time over to them, they can introduce themselves, but uh the bulk of the meeting will be uh working through this initial presentation on transportation.

Council, good evening.

Um I'm Thomas McMurtry from Avenue Consultants.

With me here tonight is Greg Sanchez, who's our traffic engineer and has helped put together a lot of the information you'll see, and Stacey Adams, who is our outreach coordinator and helps kind of communicate.

She'll have a couple things later on as the presentation.

I am uh the transportation um project manager for Avenue Consultants leading the transmission master plan update.

So I've got about 25 slides for you tonight.

Some of them we'll go through quickly and some of them will linger a little bit to kind of understand the data.

It's really our goal tonight is to do two things.

It's to um let you guys know that we're updating the transportation master plan.

We're just now kicking it off.

The plan is to deliver it next spring, maybe April or May.

Um tonight we're gonna look at some initial data on traffic, safety, some different travel modes.

We'll show you some biking and active transportation elements, and then we want to get to your insights and specifically collaborate on uh a vision and some goals.

So I've got a couple of slides where I'm gonna ask you guys to either open up a laptop or your phone and provide some insights to us on like what our goals should be as we work together to accomplish this plan.

So it's the agenda is broken into kind of like three elements.

The first is setting the context again.

That's transportation data, it's OD analysis.

We've got maybe 10 slides in there about that.

And then the second half is really getting to the vision and goals, and that's where again we want to hear from you and and and kind of collaborate together, and then at the end, we'll talk about our schedule and um public outreach.

At any time you can kind of interrupt and ask questions, clarify anything at all that you guys see.

So let's dive right into the context.

So our study area is to look at at Riverton as part of the work that we're doing here.

We're also looking at adjacent communities, specifically um understanding traffic that's coming from Harriman and Bluffdale and things that are like traveling through the city and those type of things.

I want to point out on the slide uh the 2024 populations, specifically here in Riverton, we're at about 44, 45,000 people.

Adjacent to our West is Harriman, and you can see they're at about 62,000 people.

Again, this is the 2024 population estimate.

That's gonna come back when we start looking at at trips and things.

So just remember that they have more people than than Riverton.

Yeah, that's them, they add another 10, 20,000 out of that, but yeah, okay.

Honestly, it's happening daily out there.

So these are these are numbers that are supposed to be a July 24 estimate.

So it's a year old already.

So yeah, I'm sure that they're that they're gonna resist that.

They always they always think their population grows a thousand a day, but that might be true.

Um, so this is the traffic volumes, the the kind of latest traffic volumes that we have for all of the roads around the city.

Um, we're kind of zoomed out, so you mostly are looking at the arterial volumes.

This is data from 2023, so it's also a few years old, and it's pre-construction on some of the construction projects.

And really, the kind of message here that I would tell you is to like look at 120 um six, then look at 134th, and specifically the volumes that they're carrying, kind of between Bangatar and Mount View, which are like 30,000 and 134 is higher than 126 south, and then you can see kind of the volumes that we're carrying on on Banger and then Redwood and 13th West is honestly carrying a decent amount, and so is 27th.

And so um this is kind of where we're starting for like existing traffic around the city.

Besides volumes, we're also looking at a lot of other elements.

One of those is um safety, it's how we're doing with crashes.

Um we've been looking at crashes and and and safety data recently.

This is the total number of crashes within Riverton City in the last six years.

So we have a pre-pandemic number, there's the 2020 where it dipped when everybody kind of was at home, and then you can see how it's kind of bounced back.

I want to specifically mention that 829 in 2024 and the jump from 639 crashes in 2023.

That's a big increase in total crashes when within the community.

And so like that's concerning.

That's something that we're taking a look at.

We've we've dove into this crashes a little bit, and some of the things that we're seeing specifically with this increase is that a lot of those crashes are um we're seeing an increase in congestion related crashes.

So these are specifically crashes at intersections on major routes.

They're specifically front to rear crashes, so like a rear end crash.

We've also seen a big spike in what's called angle crashes.

An angle crash is a left turning crash.