Members of the community can now review the final draft of the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan (ASMP), Austin’s new, comprehensive transportation plan. This final draft includes a policy document that outlines the ASMP’s goals, objectives, and action items, as well as updated draft maps showing how the ASMP will impact Austin’s transportation network. See the ASMP website to review both the final draft policy document and updated draft maps.
“The Austin Strategic Mobility Plan is truly a major milestone for Austin’s mobility portfolio,” said Robert Spillar, P.E., Austin Transportation Director. “The plan responds to the Council’s strategic direction to solve mobility issues by addressing the multimodal needs of our community, offering our residents and visitors new affordable opportunities to travel through and around our city.”
The ASMP is Austin’s first locally focused transportation plan. It will replace the 1995 regional Austin Metropolitan Area Transportation Plan in guiding the City’s transportation policies, programs, projects, and investments. Once adopted, it will amend the transportation element of Imagine Austin, the City’s comprehensive plan. The ASMP will build connections, improve our current systems, increase accountability, and plan for Austin’s long-term transportation future.
“The Austin Strategic Mobility Plan promotes economic opportunity and affordability, safety, health, environmental sustainability, access to cultural and lifelong learning opportunities, and a diverse, multimodal transportation portfolio,” said Spillar. “Paramount to the plan is our effort to reduce the number of fatalities and injuries that occur on the transportation network within Austin. Concurrently, the plan addresses equity by recognizing where our transportation network has reinforced historic community barriers and establishes both communication outreach techniques and policies that seek to make sure everyone in our community is heard and served so that these barriers may one day be erased.”
The ASMP will go to City Council for review and adoption later this spring.
“This plan is a culmination of public engagement efforts and is informed by what we heard from the community,” said Annick Beaudet, Austin Transportation Assistant Director. “We are excited to share the plan and envision it to be responsive to our community’s changing mobility needs over time.”
Community members are invited to share feedback on the ASMP by testifying at the following boards and commissions meetings in the coming weeks:
City Council Mobility Committee
Austin City Hall, 301 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
Thursday, Feb. 28, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Pedestrian Advisory Council
Austin City Hall, 301 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
Monday, March 4, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Zoning and Platting Commission – public hearing
Austin City Hall, 301 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
Tuesday, March 5, 6:00 p.m.
Environmental Commission
Austin City Hall, 301 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
Wednesday, March 6, 6:00 p.m.
Planning Commission – public hearing
Austin City Hall, 301 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
Tuesday, March 12, 6:00 p.m.
Urban Transportation Commission
Austin City Hall, 301 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
Monday, March 18, 5:00 p.m.
Bicycle Advisory Council
Austin City Hall, 301 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
Tuesday, March 19, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Zoning and Platting Commission
Austin City Hall, 301 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
Tuesday, March 19, 6:00 p.m.
Planning Commission
Austin City Hall, 301 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
Tuesday, March 26, 6:00 p.m.
City Council – public hearing (tentative)
Austin City Hall, 301 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
Thursday, March 28 (Time TBD)
(Photo: Shutterstock by Philip Lange)
