State and Regional Transportation Plans Comment Periods Open

[Dave Levy]

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From: Mark Blacknell, Arlington BAC 
Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 9:55:32 AM
Subject:  State and Regional Transportation Plans Comment Periods Open

Virginia has opened its “2035 Surface Transportation Plan” for public comment. 
 As described by the Virginia Bike Federation:

The 2035 Virginia Surface Transportation Plan represents the first time VDOT and 
DRPT have organized multimodal proposals in a single plan.

The plan provides information for potential long-term project development and 
investment based on the goals identified in VTrans2035, Virginia’s statewide 
multimodal transportation policy plan. The draft plan includes possible 
improvements to transit, rail, freight, highway and intelligent transportation 
systems. Transportation needs identified in the plan are used to help determine 
highway projects for the Six-Year Improvement Plan.

See 
http://www.vabike.org/2035-surface-transportation-plan-available-for-public-comment/).
  The plan itself can be found at http://www.vtrans.org/2035_surface_plan.asp. 
 Comments are due July 30. 

Also, Bruce Wright (FABB, WABA) points out that the 2010 Regional Bicycle and 
Pedestrian Plan is undergoing some much needed revisions:

This Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan for the National Capital Region identifies the 
capital improvements, studies, actions, and strategies that the region proposes 
to carry out by 2035 for major bicycle and pedestrian facilities. This plan is 
an update to the 2006 Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan for the National Capital 
Region, which was the first all-new regional plan specifically for bicycle 
facilities since 1995, and the first-ever regional pedestrian facilities plan.

The Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan for the National Capital Region is intended to 
be advisory to the CLRP <http://www.mwcog.org/clrp/>  and TIP, and to stand as a 
resource for planners and the public. In contrast to the CLRP, the Bicycle and 
Pedestrian Plan includes both funded and unfunded projects – projects in this 
plan may not yet have funding identified to support their implementation. 


See http://fabb-bikes.blogspot.com/2010/07/draft-2010-regional-bicycle-and.html 
for more.  
The plan draft can be found at 
http://www.mwcog.org/committee/committee/blog/details.asp?committee_id=103&blog_id=2.  

Bruce urges leaving comments at that site, but I’ll be looking into whether 
there’s a more formal public comment process. 


Cheers,
Mark


      
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