State Releases New Transportation Plan

From the email:

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MassDOT has released weMove Massachusetts: Planning for Performance (WMM), the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Long-Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). The report summarizes MassDOT’s new approach to multimodal capital planning and the use of scenario planning. The Planning for Performance tool can be used to calculate the performance outcomes resulting from different funding levels available to MassDOT. The WMM tool also begins to incorporate MassDOT’s important policy initiatives, such as mode shift and sustainability, into the capital planning process.  In the future MassDOT will use the tool to update and refine investment priorities. The performance tool also allows our customers and stakeholders to understand the impacts of investment or disinvestment in our transportation system.

Beginning on January 29, MassDOT will convene a series of six public meetings to present both the weMove Massachusetts report and the MassDOT Capital Investment Plan.  The meetings locations and dates are as follows:

Wednesday     1/29    Boston (10 Park Plaza, 2nd Floor)

Wednesday     1/29    Worcester (Union Station)

Monday            2/3       Amherst (Bangs Community Center)

Monday            2/3       Pittsfield (Berkshire Athenaeum)

Wednesday     2/5      Dartmouth (UMass Dartmouth, Moot Court Room – UMass Law Building)

Monday            2/10    Lynn (Lynn City Hall – Council Chambers)

All meetings will take place from 6 to 8 pm

WMM is built on extensive customer outreach that MassDOT started in the youMove Massachusetts (YMM) project. MassDOT conducted wider outreach to Environmental Justice and Title VI communities through the WMM process, and this outreach complemented the conversations MassDOT conducted at the same time as part of the Patrick Administration’s transportation revenue proposals.  The outreach confirmed the essential connection between transportation and growth.  The Stakeholder Summary Report is available on the documents page.

http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/22/Docs/WWM_Planning_for_Performance.pdf
http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/0/docs/infoCenter/docs_materials/cip_FY14_FY18.pdf
http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/22/Docs/WemoveStakeholderSummary.pdf

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