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The transportation system plays a key role in helping to determine land use, but at the same time, land use is an important factor in determining roadway’s alignment, function and design. Land use and transportation were considered together when planning Castle Rock’s road network in order to satisfy the needs of citizens, accommodate regional traffic, protect the integrity of local residential neighborhoods and support Town goals.
The Transportation Master Plan describes Castle Rock’s Functional Street Classification Plan. Development requirements for new roads within each type road class are laid out there too. The Transportation Master Plan also addresses the full range of travel modes: vehicular, transit, rail, pedestrian, and bicycle. Castle Rock is serviced by the Union Pacific and Burlington Northern / Santa Fe rail lines. The town is serviced by a low cost local public transit service, bulk ticket discounts available at town and the recreation center located on Woodlands Boulevard. The town’s bike trail plan will eventually connect most areas of town with each other, downtown Castle Rock, and the regional bike trail network. Pedestrian needs and “walkability” within the downtown core are a key focus of the Downtown Plan.
Castle Rock’s transportation network is strengthened by its central location and easy access to major state travel routes. The primary Colorado north-south interstate, I-25, runs through Castle Rock and links the community with the major east-west routes of I-70 and I-80. Three I-25 interchanges in town provide direct access to the town’s commercial districts as well as US Highway 85 and Colorado Highway 83 and 86. Two new I-25 interchanges are planned and an existing one is being reconfigured. Several of the few undeveloped or under developed I-25 interchanges within Colorado are located in Castle Rock and represent excellent development opportunities.
Castle Rock is completing final segments of a ring road that will support the free movement of traffic around and within the community as it grows towards its eventual population. Going counter clockwise from the northeast, the ring road is composed of Founders Parkway, Meadows Parkway, and an extension of Coachline road on the west side of I-25 to be named Plum Creek Parkway (new Southwest connector road), and an extension of Plum Creek Parkway on the east side of I-25 (new Southeast connector road). In addition to those two new connector roads, potential alignments for a new road linking The Meadows neighborhood to I-25 are being evaluated. Click here to see a map upon which new ring road segments are indicated with dashed lines.
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