What do you want from our system?

Our MPO is in the process of updating its 30 year long-range transportation plan. Things in the plan can be built — new bike lanes, paths, bridge access for bikes. If it doesn’t make the long-range plan, it can’t make the short-range plans that are implemented.

So, if you provided comments in the meetings at the MPC building recently, fantastic! If not, a new online version is available now through July 22. See below for full details.

Hello bicycle and pedestrian stakeholders and interested parties:

The Coastal Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (CORE MPO), which is the transportation planning entity for the Chatham County area, invites public participation in the development of the Non-motorized Transportation Plan, covering all of Chatham County. This plan will identify projects and policies that are needed to encourage walking, bicycling, and other self-powered methods of transportation. Types of projects included in the plan may be facilities such as sidewalks, bike lanes, or multi-use paths, but may also be streetscaping or other amenities to create a more human-scaled environment in certain areas. Learn more about the Non-motorized Transportation Plan at: http://www.thempc.org/Transportation/Non-motorTranspPlan.html.

The following options for participation are available through July 22, 2010, on the transportation pages of the MPC website (http://www.thempc.org/transportation.htm):

• Online, interactive mapping of issues and preferences. (This collects the same type of information as the on-paper, in-person mapping exercise that some of you attended at MPC this past spring. If you marked our paper maps earlier, there is no need to re-enter this information on the online map.)
• Survey on Bicycle Planning.
• Survey on Pedestrian Planning.

In addition, Chatham County residents may contact MPO staff directly to share comments or to take the surveys over the phone.

There will additional opportunities for input and feedback during the development of the Non-motorized Transportation Plan, over the course of the next year approximately.

The Non-motorized Transportation Plan is one element of the CORE MPO Total Mobility Plan, a long range, multi-modal transportation plan, which is simultaneously under development.

Please contact Jane Love, at 912-651-1443 or lovej@thempc.org, for additional information about the Non-motorized Transportation Plan. For more information about the overall Total Mobility Plan, contact Mark Wilkes, at 912-651-1451 or wilkesm@thempc.org.