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Action Alert: Submit Feedback to TxDOT for Texas Transportation Plan

Action Alert: Submit Feedback to TxDOT for Texas Transportation Plan

...TxDOT is holding a series of workshops, open houses, and public meetings to update the long range (through 2040) Texas Transportation Plan (TTP). BikeTexas and TxDOT encourage your participation.

The TTP 2040 will serve as TxDOT’s blueprint to guide the state’s multimodal transportation needs for the next 25+ years, addressing all all transportation modes including roadways, aviation, public transportation, bicycle and pedestrian, waterways and coastal waters, and freight and passenger rail.

TxDOT will also be accepting email comments throughout this public process at  TxTransPlan2040@txdot.gov , or by mail:

TxDOT Transportation Planning and Programming Division
Texas Transportation Plan 2040
P.O. Box 149217
Austin, Texas, 78714-9217

BikeTexas asks you to keep these things in mind when talking to TxDOT:

Ask that TxDOT adopt an agency-wide, district-wide, and area-wide Complete Streets policy with guidance, procedures, and review included.
Remind TxDOT that a Complete Streets policy is in accordance with their first priority: safety for all road users.
Point out that the review process for Complete Streets is more economical in the long run, saving TxDOT the time and other resources required to add bicycle or pedestrian accommodations later in the project.
Express your support for trails projects in your community: The current federal transportation bill allows TxDOT to move trails money away to non-bike/ped uses much more easily than before, and we want them to keep trails funding for trail building. Please show your support for trails in your area.

For more background information about TTP 2040, click here.
TTP 2020

- See more at: http://www.biketexas.org/news/action-al … yRMMS.dpuf

Last edited by AusTexMurf (2013-11-28 11:05:21)