Transportation Question Results
If you had $100 to spend on improving congestion, how would you spend those dollars?
Strategic Regional Issue #1
Coordination
What's The Issue?
At the local level, there is little coordination among transportation planning, land use planning, capital budgeting, and economic development.
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Strategic Regional Issue #2
Few Available Modes
What's The Issue?
On a regional scale, there are few available modes of transportation. Limited public transit is an obstacle to accessibility and mobility for the region’s citizens, especially the environmental justice populations, which include the elderly, people with disabilities, low income, minority populations and zero-car households.
What's Being Done?
Strategic Regional Issue #3
Rising Costs
What's The Issue?
The costs associated with transportation are rising. There is a lack of adequate financial resources to operate, maintain and improve transportation systems in the region.
What's Being Done?

Strategic Regional Issue #4
Coordination of Land Uses
What's The Issue?
There is insufficient coordination of land use issues between local, state and regional transportation planning agencies.
What's Being Done?

Strategic Regional Issue #5
Traffic Congestion
What's The Issue?
Traffic congestion remains an issue in the region, with multiple implications including loss of productivity, increased pricing of goods and services, loss of personal time, wasted fuel and degradation of air quality.
What's Being Done?

Strategic Regional Issue #6
Efficiency of the Interstate System
What's The Issue?
Local trips on Interstate highways reduce the efficiency of the Interstate system.
What's Being Done?

Strategic Regional Issue #7
Air Quality
What's The Issue?
Transportation project choices affect the region’s ability to attain air quality standards.
What's Being Done?
