Because we feel it’s important to be present and engaged in this process at MPC, we have rescheduled the SBC board meeting for 7pm at Moon River — it will be an abbreviated meeting, and should not take more than 30 minutes. We just got notice of the meeting at MPC yesterday, but still have a few urgent matters we need to addres.
We need your help on Tuesday at 5pm at MPC at 110 State Street (between Abercorn and Drayton). At stake are the priorities that will be set for transportation in the next 3 years, including what happens with stimulus spending locally. Despite our efforts at the technical committee meeting last month in getting the Truman Linear Park inserted into the plan, it is still not in the list of preliminary priorities for the MPO.
We had scheduled a Coastal Georgia Greenway meeting that evening at Moon River to follow our board meeting, but it will be rescheduled for April — please look for that announcement.
Please come out to MPC Tuesday, bring your helmet, and speak for more bikeways, for complete streets. Stick around and we’ll head over to Moon River at 7.
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To SBC members and readers: Regarding “getting Truman Linear Park into the Plan,” the Truman Linear Park has been in the MPO’s FY 2008-2011 Transportation Improvement Program since the Program was adopted in June 2007. (The amendment to the TIP that was approved last month programmed some additional stimulus funding for that project and many other projects, although some projects will not actually be awarded the stimulus funding because costs of stimlus requests exceed the money coming to our area.) No action was taken on prioritizing projects in Feb., either for stimulus or for regular funding. I want to clarify for all readers that prioritization of the Truman Linear Park was not denied by the MPO last month, just as prioritization of anything else in the TIP has not been approved by the MPO since June 2007. This is why Truman Linear Park is “still not in the list of preliminary priorities,” as the preliminary priorities for the new TIP are simply the ones approved during last TIP development. At the April MPO meeting, priorities for regular funding in the new TIP will be voted on. Also at that meeting, the exsiting TIP (2008-2011) will be amended to show which stimulus candidates actually get the funds over which the MPO has discretion ($7 million).
The Savannah Bicycle Campaign is helping to raise the profile of the Truman Linear Park and of bicyclists needs in general. It is good to know that there are people in the community who want better things for bicylists. Thanks for promoting the public meeting. (Dislcosure to those who don’t know me: I am a Transportation Planner at the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission and a member of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign.)
Thanks, Jane. It’s a worthwhile clarification. I did not intend to imply anything other than what you have noted. It remains, though that it’s not on the priorities list that was developed by Wykoda Wang for this meeting, and we do not have any assurance from the county that they will be seeking these funds out of stimulus dollars.
We hope that by our presence, we will put these issues in the forefront.