Local public officials and business leaders formed the Bottineau Boulevard Partnership to mobilize resources and offer civic leadership to guide the redevelopment of the Bottineau Corridor (County Road 81). A new, high quality transit investment was a consistent priority for the Partnership, which championed BRT in the mid-2000s and later changed its focus to light rail transit after 2010.

The Partnership encouraged a new vision for the corridor, first supporting a series of land use and development plans around the proposed bus rapid transit. As the process toward a light rail transit line moved forward, the Partnership studied lessons learned and best practices in Transit Oriented Development (TOD). The Partnership made a trip to Portland to study the process firsthand and considered how to apply these lessons in the Bottineau corridor.

For information about the current Bottineau Transitway project, please go to www.bottineautransitway.org.