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Bicycle Planning in McLean County
29 T H I D O T FA L L P L A N N I N G C O N F E RE N C E BLO O M I N GT O N , I L
OCTOBER 9, 2014
PLANNING HISTORY A slow start 1994 LRTP had no bicycle-pedestrian component
Constitution Trail already open for five years Late 1990s bicycle/pedestrian plan for Bloomington-Normal
Included city, town and county Adopted in 1997
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“The vision is an interconnected system of bicycle-pedestrian routes that offer transportation alternatives and serve to reduce traffic congestion, prevent damage to the environment, promote physical
health, and encourage social interaction.”
PLANNING HISTORY Four types of users
Group A – experienced & advanced riders comfortable on busy streets, biking for short commutes and distance recreational riding
Group B – basic bicyclists, primarily recreational casual riders, more likely to use trails
Group C – children, pre-teens making short recreational trips
Pedestrians – everyone, facilities accessible to all Three classes of facility – multi-use trails, bike
lanes, low volume roadways
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PLANNING HISTORY
Further planning Long Range plans in 1999, 2007 and 2012 Greenways plans in 1999 and 2009 Regional and municipal comprehensive plans, 2005,
2006, 2009 We’ve come a long way…
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PLANNING PARTNERS Our planning and implementation partners
Friends of Constitution Trail Advocating for the Trail
McLean County Wheelers Cycling club, ride sponsors & leaders
Bike BloNo Advocacy and organizing
IDOT Needs no introduction
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PLANNING PARTNERS Local events Collaboration among organizations
Connect Transit (Light the Night) WGLT Good to Go League of Illinois Bicyclists
Social media Friends, Wheelers & BikeBloNo Bike advocacy Community awareness Fun
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HISTORIC ROUTE 66 BIKEWAY
Countywide Route 66 consortium to develop/maintain the Historic Route 66 Bikeway
1999 intergovernmental agreement McLean County, Bloomington, Normal, Chenoa, Lexington, Towanda,
McLean Cost sharing proportional to population
First ITEP grant awarded in 2000, $255,000 for Phase I engineering
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ROUTE 66 HISTORIC BIKEWAY
Five phased segments I - Southwest Bloomington to Funk’s
Grove (connecting to Constitution Trail)
II – Funk’s Grove to McLean (Route 66 museum at Dixie Truckers Home)
III – Normal to Towanda (connecting from Constitution Trail)
IV – Towanda to Lexington V – Lexington to Chenoa
Each segment incorporates local projects and attractions
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ROUTE 66 HISTORIC BIKEWAY
ITEP and match funding issues Phases dependent on ITEP/TAP grant awards Smaller communities challenged by cost, access to local
projects Engineering issues
Proximity to Interstate Proximity to high speed rail
Working with of IDOT, IDNR, consulting team IDOT worked with engineering team IDNR managing state and regional committees
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ROUTE 66 HISTORIC BIKEWAY Current project status/schedule
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Segment Length Status
Logan County Line to McLean 3.2 Phase I not completed
McLean to Funk's Grove 4.5 Phase I Engineering Completed
Funk's Grove to Shirley 3.1 Phase I Engineering Completed
Shirley to 1.1 miles south 1.1 Applied for ITEP Funding in August 2013 for design and construction
Shirley to Bloomington 3.7 Previously Constructed
Route 66 Tr. to Constitution Trail 1.0 Connection to Route 66 Trail (City of Bloomington)
Constitution Trail 8.0 Previously Constructed (Bloomington & Normal)
Constitution Trail to Route 66 Tr. 1.0 Connection to Route 66 Trail (Town of Normal)
Normal to Towanda 4.5 Received ITEP Funds for design and construction, Design in progress, 2015 Construction
Towanda to 2100 North 2.8 Received ITEP Funds for design and construction, 2015 Construction
2100 North to Lexington 3.9 Applied for ITEP Funding in August 2013 for Phase I Engineering
Lexington 2.3 Previously Constructed
Lexington to Chenoa 5.8 Phase I not completed
Chenoa 1.1 Previously Constructed
Chenoa to Livingston County Line 1.2 Phase I not completedTotals 47.2
ROUTE 66 HISTORIC BIKEWAY Links to tourism, economic development
Route 66 visitors’ center under construction at McLean County Museum of History Illinois Office of Tourism B-N Convention & Visitors Bureau Anticipated 20,000 visitors annually
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CONSTITUTION TRAIL Opened in 1989
Joint effort of Bloomington and Normal
Used abandoned rail corridors
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CONSTITUTION TRAIL 25th anniversary celebration for a much-
loved community resource
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Mayor Koos
Normal
Mayor RennerBloomington
NORMAL
Plan process Mayor appointed ad hoc committee Committee recommended master bicycle/ped plan Alta selected as project consultant Plan adopted in 2009
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NORMAL Implementation
First focus - projects in capital plan Plan adopted at the dawn of the economic downturn Still working on the capital plan projects
Initial opposition to shared routes Implemented sharrows in some locations Other infrastructure changes
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BLOOMINGTON
Plan process Partnered with
League of Illinois Bicyclists McLean County Regional Planning Commission
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BLOOMINGTON Plan process
League of Illinois Bicyclists used digital information collection through MindMixer website
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WHAT’S NEXT
Moving Forward Plan implementation Advancing integration with transit Long Range trail system expansion planning Bicycle/highway project integration
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WHAT’S NEXT
Keeping What Works Local cooperation in plan
implementation Bike community
partnerships Bike Summits Still more planning
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WHAT’S NEXTMoving Forward Advancing integration with transit First mile, last mile focus Serving the multimodal user
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WHAT’S NEXTMoving Forward LRTP trail planning Leveraging the
landscape to expand the regional network
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WHAT’S NEXTMoving Forward Bicycle/highway project proposed East Side
Highway Extremely long-range
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YOUR
PANEL
Gene Brown – [email protected] Engineer, Normal
Mercy Davison – [email protected] Planner, Normal
Andrew Johnson – [email protected] Transit General Manager
Jim Karch – [email protected] Works Director, Bloomington
Kevin Kothe – [email protected] Engineer, Bloomington
Rick Nolan - [email protected] Planner, MCRPC
Jennifer Sicks – [email protected] Planner, MCRPC 39