Connect Columbus Asks for Ideas On Long-Range Transportation Plan
The City is asking residents how
they want Columbus to move into the next several decades, including ideas about
streets, bus routes, sidewalks, bikeways, crosswalks, or slowing down traffic
to make children’s walks to school or the playground safer. Even whether streetcars or light rail should
be added to the city’s transportation system.
Connect Columbus, the City’s long-range transportation planning effort,
is gathering public input to develop a new transportation plan for the next several
decades. The second four-day Connect
Columbus workshop sessions will take place June 1 -4. Two additional four-day workshops are
planned at other locations in the city this summer. The sessions are open to
the public, who can spend 20 minutes, two hours or all day brainstorming with
the Connect Columbus design team about how to improve transportation. All ideas
will be considered, and the public can map out their ideas with the help of
planners and designers during the workshop.
Over the summer and fall months,
the Connect Columbus mobile Plan Van will visit popular lunch hot-spots, COTA
Park & Ride lots, festivals and other locations to gather ideas from the
public.
Residents can also comment on the
transportation plan at www.columbus.gov/ConnectColumbus to provide their thoughts and ideas.
Who
Connect Columbus, the City’s long-range,
multi-modal transportation planning effort
to determining how Columbus
should move over the next several decades
What
Four-day long opportunity for residents to
shape their neighborhood’s future transportation
options,
including sidewalks, bikeways, crosswalks, and other ideas
Where
North Broadway
United Methodist Church; 48 East North Broadway
When
June
1 – 4
Monday, June 1: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Open Workshop Session,
with a 6
p.m. to 7 p.m. opening presentation
Tuesday, June 2: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Open Workshop Session
Wednesday, June 3: 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Open Workshop Session
Thursday, June 4: 9 a.m. to
2 p.m. Open Workshop Session, with a 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
closing presentation with a
summary of all the ideas collected during the sessions