Foundation 4 - Developing a Connected and Diverse Transportation System

The Cheyenne area is fortunate to have an adequate roadway system that experiences very little traffic. Automobile travel is typically quick, efficient, and stress free. Cheyenne is also home to a basic bus system that helps to serve residents who cannot travel by automobile, or prefer an alternative. This bus system is vital to those who use it. Sidewalks, bike paths, bike lanes, and trails also provide transportation alternatives.

As the Cheyenne area grows, the transportation system will need to grow also to meet our mobility needs. The city and county will improve existing roadways and construct new roads. In addition, improvements to roads must occur with minimal impacts to our existing neighborhoods. For new development areas, the mixed‐use pedestrian‐friendly areas shown on the Future Land Use Plan provide opportunities to support and improve transit, bicycle, and pedestrian mobility throughout the Cheyenne area to serve not only people who cannot drive, but also those who prefer not to use a car.

Principles and Policies


Principal 4.1: Roadways in and around our new neighborhoods will be designed to accommodate traffic growth.

Policy 4.1.a: Arterial Roadway Capacity
The community will construct arterials in growing areas to accommodate traffic growth for the next 30 years and preserve right‐ofway in growing areas to accommodate expected traffic volumes beyond 30 years as the Future Land Use Plan builds out.

Policy 4.1.b: Arterial Roadway Access
The community will limit access of new developments to new arterials through use of consolidated driveways and frontage road systems.

Policy 4.1.c: Major Roadways and Neighborhoods
The community should avoid locating new housing adjacent to major thoroughfares— primarily principal and minor arterials. Arterial roads should not cut through new neighborhoods; conversely new neighborhoods should not be built to front on arterial roads.

Policy 4.1.d: Major Roadways and Schools
The community should avoid locating new schools adjacent to major thoroughfares— primarily principal and minor arterials; conversely avoid constructing major thoroughfares near schools.

Policy 4.1.e: Traffic Study Requirements
Traffic studies will be required for all larger development proposals to address automobile, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian travel.


Principal 4.2: The Cheyenne area will minimize impacts to our existing neighborhoods when making road improvements.

Policy 4.2.a: Limit Major Roadway Widening in Neighborhoods
In general, the community should only consider widening roadways that may impact existing neighborhoods for those roadways that already serve as major thoroughfares.

Policy 4.2.b: Consider Alternative Solutions to Road Widening
When alternative solutions are available, the community should prioritize solutions that will minimize impacts to existing neighborhoods, even if the solutions may be less effective at reducing traffic.

Policy 4.2.c: Impacts on Historically Significant Neighborhoods
Preserve the integrity and character of historically significant neighborhoods when widening roadways.


Principal 4.3: The Cheyenne area will have a diverse transportation system that consists of streets, sidewalks, bicycle facilities, and transit.

Policy 4.3.a: "Multi-modal" Streets
The community will design and construct arterial and collector streets to be "multimodal," by providing travel lanes for automobiles, bikes, buses, bike lanes, and sidewalks.

Policy 4.3.b: Neighborhood Design to Support Walking and Bicycling
New neighborhoods should contain a mix of compatible uses so that residents have recreation, employment and shopping opportunities within walking or bicycling distance of their homes. (See also Foundations 1 and 2.)

Policy 4.3.c: Public Transit
The city should enhance the public transportation system to increase mobility choices and increases per capita riders.

Policy 4.3.d: Interconnected Neighborhood Street, Bikeway, and Sidewalk Patterns
New neighborhoods should contain street systems that encourage internal pedestrian, bike, and auto circulation. They should also limit traffic volumes and speeds on neighborhood collector and local streets where houses front. Sidewalks should be installed on both sides of neighborhood collector streets and at least one side of local residential streets in accordance with street design standards.

Policy 4.3.e: Loop Trail System Connects Greenway
The Greenway trail system serves as an important transportation and recreation system. Expanding on this system—to fill the gaps, and making connections to it—is our community's priority for trails.