REGION 2020: TRANSPORTATION IFRASTRUCTURE and FACILITIES
WHAT
• To develop a region with a safe, highly
integrated, flexible transportation network that provides access everywhere
and that includes a complete freeway
system for the Birmingham region (including a Northern Beltline and Corridor
x), significant improvements in existing local and interstate highways, an
inter-modal facility, and an enhanced major international airport.
WHY
• To increase the flexibility of movement throughout the region.
• To provide better access throughout the region.
• To reduce congestion.
• To improve mobility.
WHO SHOULD BE INVOLVED
• Metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs)
• Regional planning commissions
• The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT)
• Urban and rural transit authorities
• The Regional Roundtable of Elected Officials
• Chamber of commerce
• Citizens
WHO WILL BENEFIT
• Communities
• Low-income residents
• Social service agencies
• Financial institutions
• Funding agencies
• Housing consumers
HOW
Strategy
Implement a regional transportation plan that improves existing highways,
emphasizes transit, and supports multi-modal transportation and networks
that are supportive
of educational, health care, and arts and cultural facilities.
Related Strategies: Mass
Transit, Alternative Modes of Transportation and Greenbelts,
Parks and Trails.
Action Steps
Region 2020 will convene a infrastructure and Facilities Task Force.
The Transportation Infrastructure and Facilities Task Force will
work with Metropolitan Planning Organizations (Mops) and the Alabama
Department
of
Transportation to:
1. Convene a regional transportation summit for all stake-holders
to review current long-range transportation plans in the region.
2. Update the long-range plans.
3. Expand the long-range plans to include a rural transportation
component according to the T-21 mandate.
4. Coordinate the long-range plans to include proposed mass
transit development and increased emphasis on alternative
modes of transportation.
Role of Region 2020
• To convene the Transportation Infrastructure and Facilities
Task Force
• To convene a regional transportation summit.
• To gain the support of the Regional Roundtable of Elected
Officials.
• To monitor the progress of the effort.
Cost
To be determined
