What is the Metropolitan Transportation Plan 2035?
The Sacramento Area Council of Governments and its partners are developing the Metropolitan Transportation Plan for 2035 (MTP2035).
The goal: define how $30 billion in transportation investments will support our growth over the next 23 years.
The challenge: identifying improvements for how we move, whether by car, transit, bike or foot.
The process: citizens will provide input at 16 community workshops throughout the six-county region. Maps and other planning tools will allow them to indicate preferences for transportation improvements. Several different plans will be developed based on community input. The public process will continue until the final MTP2035 is adopted in mid-2007.
El Dorado County: Placerville Workshop Findings
Citizen planners at the March 30 workshop in Placerville helped answer important questions:
What distances are they traveling most?
A majority of workshop participants started with a transportation scenario supporting shorter distance travel (up to 3 miles) for trips to work, school, shopping, entertainment and medical appointments.
How do they prioritize their travel investments?
The most frequent investment suggestions included:
- Expanding roads parallel to Highway 50, (Pleasant Valley and Green Valley Roads)
- Expanding North-South connections (Missouri Flat and Bass Lake Roads)
- Considering connectors (Sacramento-El Dorado, Camino-Newton, and Missouri Flat-Diamond)
- Neighborhood shuttles around Placerville to connect to transit centers
- Express Bus to Folsom light-rail station
- Bike trails and bridges
How can we support our travel options?
- Improve road maintenance (repair potholes, pave surfaces)
- Improve road safety (shoulders, guardrails, lighting, pedestrian improvements)
- Improve local bus service (bus replacements, ongoing operations serving new and existing developments) Future Community Workshops
For more information about the MTP2035 or to register for an upcoming workshop, please visit SACOG at www.sacog.org/mtp/2035 or call Valley Vision at (916) 325-1634.
