Lake Tahoe is within driving range of three large urban centers—the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento Valley, and Reno metropolitan area—making it a highly sought after vacation destination. Implementing local and regional transportation solutions are a high priority to improve connectivity and safety, address resident and visitor travel needs, and reduce environmental impacts.
Achieving the Lake Tahoe Region’s long-term transportation vision to reduce reliance on the automobile will take time, collaboration, dedication, and successful solutions for significant funding shortfalls. It will also require a phased approach that builds upon infrastructure and programs already in place to leverage and maximize investments. To be successful the transportation program needs strategic approaches like Transportation Performance Management that use system information to make investment and policy decisions to achieve our vision and goals.
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Bike Path from Country Club Golf Course to Sawmill Road; Provide a link between the Meyers (Pat Lowe) Bike Trail and the Arapahoe Bike Trail and between the Arapahoe Bike Trail and Sawmill Road. Perform right-of-way acquisitions. This project includes the installation of a pedestrian/bicycle bridge over the Upper Truckee River.
The Tahoe City Transit Center will create a transit transfer/park and ride station in Tahoe City. The project includes a intermodal transit center and associated parking facilities for public use and will include parking for six buses, 130 parking spaces for transit and other uses, an enclosed structure for transit patrons which includes a heated waiting space with bench seating for 40 people and changeable interpretive/tourist displays, public restrooms which will be accessible during all hours of transit operation, an office to provide ticket sales, information and other transit functions, bicycle lockers to encourage intermodal use, and connections to existing bicycle trail systems.
The project includes 2 phases that will be constructed separately:
1. Truckee River Bridge Project includes a new, 1,700 foot long section of SR 89 with a new bridge over the Truckee River, and 2 new roundabouts. The project will replace a section of sewer within the project limits. This project was completed in the fall of 2020.
2. Fanny Bridge Project includes replacing the signalized "wye" intersection with a single lane roundabout and replacement of the Fanny Bridge with a new, single span bridge.
The construction contract was advertised for bids on 11/20/2023 with a bid opening scheduled for 12/21/2023. Bids/funding will determine what is constructed in 2024 and 2025.
Phase 2 of the Nevada Stateline to Stateline Bikeway is a 3 mile segment connecting Incline Village to Sand Harbor. The project includes parking near Ponderosa Ranch Rd and connectivity to the existing bike trail system at SR 28 and Lakeshore Blvd. The path starts at Ponderosa Ranch Rd and continues on the mountain side of SR 28 with a tunnel under SR 28 terminating at the Sand Harbor State Park entrance. Performance Measures, funding and budgets for this project are reported in NDOT's Project 03.02.02.0079 which is implementing this planning effort. Phase 2a includes design and construction of parking at Rocky Point, a southbound transit pull-out and a connecting path to the new trail