january 2009 transportation 2009 support for transportation choices and alternatives jon boyd
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January 2009
Transportation 2009
Support for transportation choices and alternatives
Jon Boyd
http://ctchouston.org
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You might expect people to be interested…
• In the next 20 years, our region will spend more than $100 billion on transportation infrastructure
• That’s $5 billion of public funds annually
• Sidewalks, streets, highways, rail lines affect us all
• Where and how we build infrastructure dramatically affects quality of life in our communities
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but more than 40 agencies are planning…
TxDOTTexas Department of Transportation
Local cities
TIRZTax Increment
Reinvestment Zones
You & Me
Transportation’sTransportation’s“pecking” order“pecking” order
Neighborhoods
HCTRAHarris Cty Toll Road Auth
Counties
MDManagement
Districts
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… and the process takes many years
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If neighborhoods want better projects and better quality of life,
then what do we do?
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Members of the Citizens’ Transportation Coalition are working for:
The The Citizens’ Transportation Coalition Citizens’ Transportation Coalition envisions transportation solutions that envisions transportation solutions that
improve quality of life.improve quality of life.
The The Citizens’ Transportation Coalition Citizens’ Transportation Coalition envisions transportation solutions that envisions transportation solutions that
improve quality of life.improve quality of life.
OUR VISION
CTC advocates a broad-based public CTC advocates a broad-based public educational and planning process toeducational and planning process to
identify neighborhood aspirations and the identify neighborhood aspirations and the best transportation options to achieve them.best transportation options to achieve them.
CTC advocates a broad-based public CTC advocates a broad-based public educational and planning process toeducational and planning process to
identify neighborhood aspirations and the identify neighborhood aspirations and the best transportation options to achieve them.best transportation options to achieve them.
OUR MISSION
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What kinds of transportation policies might improve our quality of life?
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We need strategies both to accommodate growth and to preserve neighborhoods…
Dan Burdem
Town Center article
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We need to build more mobility choices
• 1 out of 5 adult Texans cannot or does not drive
• Everyone is a pedestrian at some times in their lives– children, injured, disabled, seniors, and poor– even you… when your car is in the repair shop
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We need to make public transit more effective
• Transit requires appropriate development (min density) ask for complementary local development guidelines
• We can make the case for additional funding:
– ask Congress to bring federal transit dollars here
– ask Texas legislators to fund freight and commuter rail
– ask Counties to fund local transit options
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We need to invest in freight rail…
http://ctchouston.org
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And we need agencies to cooperate…
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So… when neighborhoods are ready to make something happen,
what can you do?
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Consider adopting the CTC resolution