Newly elected Austin City Council Member Jimmy Flannigan has hit the ground running moving forward transportation projects in District 6 funded through the $720 million mobility bond. Flannigan said he met with the Austin Transportation Department last week about the public engagement process. “We’ll have shovels in the dirt surely in the next four years if not the next two years,” he said Monday evening at the monthly meeting of the Northwest Austin Coalition that he helped form. In November, voters approved the bond, which allocates $5.5 million for improvements to Anderson Mill Road. Flannigan said he plans to host public input meetings soon to allow residents to weigh improvements to the roadway, particularly between US 183 and Spicewood Parkway. “At the end of the day the most likely outcome of Anderson Mill Road is the simplest version: sidewalks, bike lane, two [travel] lanes and a median,” he said. Flannigan said $1.2 million was also allocated from Capital Metro’s Quarter Cent Fund for a double right-turn lane from Anderson Mill to US 183. When discussion of the $720 million bond began, that project was put on hold until the outcome of the new bond was determined. He said he needs public input on where to keep business driveways, where to add new stoplights and how to improve access to bus stops. “The biggest price tag for Anderson Mill Road will be drainage, all those ditches between [US] 183 and Millwright [Parkway],” he said. “We’re trying to put together as much budget flexibility.” Other projects in District 6 will also receive bond funding, including $7.5 million for the bypass road at RM 620 and RM 2222 in Four Points. Flannigan said that project is farther behind in schedule than Anderson Mill. Flannigan said a Four Points task force will be created along with the West Austin Chamber of Commerce to help further that project, which primarily will aid drivers from the Steiner Ranch neighborhood. Other corridors in District 6 that Flannigan said he would like to see improved include Duval Road and Lakeline Boulevard. He said he met with District 7 Council Member Leslie Pool about starting a study on Duval because the roadway crosses multiple council districts. “Council Member Pool is excited about the opportunity,” he said. “We’re several months before we kick it off. My instinct is to follow same process as with Anderson Mill Road.”