POULSBO — Passenger cars floating from the College Marketplace to the Bainbridge Island ferry terminal in less than 10 minutes? Buses slicing through traffic as cars and SUVs are stuck in sheer quagmire? Those are but two ideas for the future of the North End’s busiest stretch of highway.

The list of options and those involved is almost as long as the road itself.

Seattle-based Otak, Inc. was selected to craft a State Route 305 Corridor Vision in a collaborative project between Kitsap Transit, Kitsap County, the Suquamish Tribe, the cities of Bainbridge Island and Poulsbo and the Washington State Department of Transportation.

“We’re going to present preliminary alternatives for high capacity transit for the SR 305 corridor,” said Otak project manager Mandi Roberts.

Along with long-term alternatives for high capacity transit, the goal of the effort is to develop short-term improvements that can be made to ease travel along the highway corridor, Roberts said.

“Those can be things such as moving transit stops or identifying areas needing turn lanes,” she said.

When it comes to defining high capacity transit, Roberts said it can include Bus Rapid Transit, light rail or even LevX — or a magnetic repulsion system, which some city officials have examined in the past.

“Everything is still on the table, and we’ll choose our preferred alternative,” she said.

The project is already 75 percent complete, but the public should take advantage of the opportunity to speak up, Roberts said.

Poulsbo City Councilman Jim Henry, who serves on many transportation committees locally and statewide, agreed that people need to get involved with the highway’s future now instead of waiting for a decision to be made and then voicing their opinion.

“They need to get involved while everything is still in the cauldron,” Henry said. “We need to get people involved to find a solution.”

Even though the highway is being widened through the city, Henry said widening won’t be an option in the future, so other plans must be made.

“It all ends at the south city limits for us,” he said.

But what takes place outside the city limits will still impact the city, so it’s important that the residents and city officials work with the other partners in the study to find viable solutions, he said.

“People need to tell us which options they think are more attractive,” Henry said.

For Poulsbo Mayor Kathryn Quade the presentations are another opportunity for the public to see different ways to get from place to place.

“We need to find different modes of transportation,” Quade said. Modes of public transportation will become increasingly important in the future, she said. Those ever-evolving modes of transportation. Quade said, must be explored and transportation plans need to be open to allow for new technologies, which may not currently exist.

However, one as of yet untested technology offers a great opportunity locally, she said.

“I firmly believe we have a special opportunity for Kitsap County and the North End with LevX or a similar type technology,” Quade said.