SCAG received federal funding to develop a “Highways to Boulevards Regional Study,” which will identify opportunities to reconnect communities by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating transportation facilities such as highways or railways that create barriers to community connectivity. The “Highways to Boulevards Regional Study” furthers Connect SoCal’s vision for a more resilient and equitable future. SCAG will engage stakeholders from across the region from November 2023 through April 2025.
The “Highways to Boulevards Regional Study” goals include:
- Identifying opportunities to reconnect communities by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating transportation facilities, such as highways or railways, that create barriers to community connectivity, including to mobility, access, or economic development.
- Offering a path for communities to reknit by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating transportation facilities so that what remains is a better fit for the context of their surroundings and serves all people.
- Providing a framework to identify and evaluate potential transportation facilities to reconnect communities for performance improvements to provide more multi-modal travel options.
- Focusing on areas that intersect with Priority Equity Communities.
- Preserving local communities and creating opportunities for safer and healthier communities.
Study work includes:
- Reviewing existing conditions as well as all ongoing highways-to-boulevards, freeway caps, and railroad conversion projects in the region.
- Establishing a framework and a set of metrics for identifying transportation facilities to reconnect communities.
- Implementing a robust and meaningful engagement strategy.
- Identifying and evaluating projects in the region that are potentially viable candidates for future improvements for reconnecting communities, particularly those intersecting with Priority Equity Communities.
- Developing conceptual designs for a subset of priority projects.
- Creating a guide for jurisdictions to mitigate the negative impacts of transportation facilities.
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For more information on the study, please contact:
Hina Chanchlani
Project Manager
Mobility Planning and Goods Movement
chanchlani@scag.ca.gov
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