Coffman Street Mobility Improvements

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You can walk, roll, take the bus, ride a bike, or drive a vehicle—no matter how you travel, the Coffman Street Mobility Improvements Project will transform your experience along Longmont’s new multimodal “main street” and redefine your options for travel to, from, and within the beautiful city of Longmont.

Coffman Street—from 2nd Avenue to 9th Avenue—is becoming a world-class, multi-modal corridor to support residents, businesses, visitors, bicyclists, pedestrians, commuters, the environment, and the broader Longmont community. When constructed, Coffman Street will have combined community members’ input with technical design expertise to develop a new streetscape with wider sidewalks, updated traffic patterns, improved bus service, and other exciting changes.

Mobility improvements are accomplishing four main project goals and a wide array of benefits:

Coffman Street has long served a role as Longmont’s second “main street,” situated one block to the west of Main Street/US 287. Businesses and community institutions including the old firehouse, hospital, and fairgrounds made Coffman Street an important commercial and civic corridor. Roosevelt Park, which lies between Longs Peak Avenue and 8th Avenue, has hosted countless community assets over the years, such as memorial displays, public art installations, sporting events, recreational activities, and special events—like a 1900 visit from soon-to-be-President Theodore Roosevelt. All of these offerings made Coffman Street a popular parade route!

Nowadays, new restaurants, businesses, and developments along Coffman Street contribute to a welcoming, tree-lined street in a vibrant city neighborhood. Coffman Street continues to be home to several beloved institutions, and the area has been part of the Longmont Downtown Development Authority (LDDA) since 1982 and the Longmont Creative District since 2012.

Coffman Street is a crucial piece in the regional mobility puzzle. The redesign of Coffman Street will connect this important economic and cultural hub with others throughout the city and region. Local, regional, and bus rapid transit (BRT) services will be added along Coffman Street, and bicycle infrastructure will tie into Longmont’s extensive network of bikeways. Connections to and from downtown, including to the critical east-west St. Vrain Greenway and to the vibrant Old Town section of the City, will build a more welcoming and accessible Longmont.

New transit stops along the street will streamline connections with nearby destinations in Boulder, Loveland, and Erie—as well as across Boulder County and the Denver metropolitan area. Residents, workers, and visitors will enjoy access to a faster, more reliable, and more welcoming transportation network that enables more affordable commuting and mobility opportunities for all.

Alongside this redesign, a series of other ongoing and planned improvements will make possible a much larger reimagination of Longmont’s transportation network. As a crucial part of this future, Coffman Street will weave together these other efforts to create a stronger, more durable transportation fabric for the city and region.

NAVIGATION TIP: Select the project titles or map pins below to explore efforts to build on successes in and around Longmont and to create a stronger, more regionally integrated approach to mobility.

Members of the Longmont community contributed greatly to the redesign of Coffman Street. Through a series of public activities, the Project Team gathered community members’ ideas, questions, and comments about the future of Coffman Street. These activities included a public survey in English and Spanish, questionnaires to property owners along the street, block-by-block meetings to address specific concerns and ideas, a September 2021 public open house at The St. Vrain (at 3rd Avenue and Coffman Street), and a June 2022 public open house at the Senior Center (at Roosevelt Park). The Project Team has also given numerous presentations about the project at Longmont Downtown Development Authority Business Owner meetings and Board meetings, to the Neighborhood Group Leaders Association, and to the Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce. Public input informed the selection of the four main criteria (pictured) used to evaluate different design concepts.

A series of high-level design concepts were evaluated to determine which best meets these criteria. Ultimately, the Side-Running Hybrid (Mixed Traffic) Transit design concept was selected and is reflected in the final design, enabling a balance between modes of transportation to support a variety of travelers, while also preserving as much of the existing community corridor as possible.

More information about community engagement efforts can be found on the  Coffman Street Busway Virtual Open House Boards .

Scroll through the following images to experience the Coffman Street of the future.

The final design of the Coffman Street Mobility Improvements Project was completed in the fall of 2023 and construction will begin in the spring of 2024. During construction, specific block-by-block sections of Coffman Street will begin to see impacts to vehicle and pedestrian access. Both vehicle and pedestrian access will be provided for the majority of the time during construction, but there will be instances of unavoidable delays or closure. As the construction start date draws closer, project staff will reach out to all property owners, business owners, and tenants to discuss expected construction impacts.

More information about the project is available on the  City's website . You can also read more about the City’s other projects on  Engage Longmont . Read up on some of the plans behind these projects:  Envision Longmont  (2016), the  Enhanced Multi-use Corridor (EMUC) Plan  (2018), and the  Multimodal Transportation Implementation Plan (MTIP) .

Please call the project hotline at 720-432-7058 or  email the project team  to provide a comment, ask a question, or discuss an issue during construction.

Construction is expected to start in the spring of 2024 and be fully finished by early 2026. Construction will take place in several phases so that, at any given time, only short sections of Coffman Street will be actively undergoing construction.

Construction will begin in Spring 2024 and last approximately two years. Construction will occur in phases (i.e. block-by-block) such that any segment of Coffman Street will be under construction for no longer than one year—and very likely much shorter than that.

Impacts due to construction will be unavoidable, but the City will be working individually with each property/business owner to understand what their needs are. The project will do the best it can to balance the needs of the project and those that live/work along the Coffman Street corridor. To minimize disruption, construction will only affect short sections of Coffman Street at any given time (i.e. block-by-block phases).

• Parking Access: No on-street parking will be available on the blocks that are under active construction during each phase (e.g., Phase 1 on Coffman Street between 7 ^th  Avenue and 9 ^th  Avenue). Check the  project website  for a current status of construction phases.
• Sidewalk Access: The majority of sidewalk replacement will occur at the beginning of each project phase. This will help to provide better pedestrian access during the remainder of major construction that happens along the corridor.
• Driveway Access: Access to driveways will be maintained throughout construction, except for when construction needs to happen directly in front of the driveway. The City will coordinate specific impacts with each property owner to discuss their respective driveway(s).

Any questions or comments regarding construction can be directed to the project hotline:

720-432-7058 CoffmanStreetMobility@longmontcolorado.gov

An alternatives analysis was conducted to compare the three design alternatives under consideration. Each alternative was evaluated based on criteria developed with community input. Read the full analysis on the  Coffman Street Busway Virtual Open House Boards .