Coffman Street Busway Project Update

The Coffman Street Busway project seeks to transform Coffman Street into a world-class multimodal street that will safely accommodate bus transit, general purpose traffic, pedestrians, bicyclists and parking.

The City of Longmont hosted a series of in-person, block-by-block meetings with business and property owners, leading up to a Citywide open house meeting on Sept. 27, 2021, to share information about the Coffman Street Busway Project in downtown Longmont and receive feedback on the project. At the meetings, and through the Engage Longmont platform, residents and business owners expressed a variety of comments, concerns and support for the project with feedback revolving around the topics of bike traffic, pedestrian traffic, trees and community character.

Specifically, residents and business owners most frequently expressed the following:

• Requests for signage and signals to increase safety and flow for both bikes and pedestrians
• Desire for increasing connectivity for bikes and pedestrians
• Strong support for preserving existing trees and adding new trees
• Desire for the reservation of on-street parking where possible

Based on technical design expertise and community feedback, the project team has made the following overall design changes:

• Decreasing dedicated bus lanes between 3^rd and 4^th avenues to maintain on-street parking and existing trees, as well as enhance the pedestrian environment
• Narrowing of cross-street roadway widths, particularly at 4^th and 5^th avenues, to reduce the amount of time needed for pedestrians to cross the street
• Utilization of protected bike intersections at 4^th and Longs Peak avenues
• Reduction of the number of transit stops from three to two stops in each direction, resulting in:
  • Additional parking, preservation of existing trees and landscaping
  • The reduction in travel times for buses in this corridor
  • A new bus stop location at 4^th Avenue and Coffman Street (north and southbound), and removal of the originally proposed bus stops between 4^th and 6^th avenues

Additionally, the project team is working to address specific requests from property/business owners and residents. Please note that, due to project constraints and complexities, not all requests can be accommodated.

The project is now at 60 percent design completion, and moving into the final design phase. Additional opportunities for project feedback will appear here on Engage Longmont in the near future.

View the project website for more information and please reach out to coffman.street.project@gmail.com with any questions.