Input sought on transportation plan for Clark County

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September 6, 2012

Input sought on transportation plan for Clark County

An open house will be held Sept. 17 in Jeffersonville

By BRADEN LAMMERS braden.lammers@newsandtribune.com The News and Tribune Thu Sep 06, 2012, 07:35 PM EDT

CLARK COUNTY — Transportation officials are hosting an open house in Clark County to gather input for the county’s long-range transportation plan.

The open house is being hosted by the Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency and the Clark County Board of Commissioners with the goal of assisting county planners in making decisions to address the transportation needs in the area for next 20 years, according to a KIPDA press release. It will assess the conditions of the existing transportation network, study alternatives to correct these issues and offer recommendations for implementation.

Clark County Transportation Plan will be developed through three reports. The initial report — existing and future conditions assessment — analyzed the existing transportation infrastructure and was the subject of a public open house last July. The second report — alternatives development — builds on the needs identified in the first report, across all modes of transportation, as well as suggestions received from the local agencies and public comments.

A digital version of the report will be available for download off the KIPDA’s website www.kipda.org beginning Wednesday, Sept. 12.

The open house public meeting will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., Sept. 17, at the Ken Ellis Center, 1425 Pennsylvania Ave., Jeffersonville.

It will allow participants to view maps of Clark County, where alternatives for improvement are being proposed, receive copies of the executive summary to the alternatives development report and talk to project representatives one-on-one, according to the release.

For more information or questions, call Nick Batta with Bernardin, Lochmueller and Associates Inc., the project’s consultant at 317-222-3880 or email him at nbatta@blainc.com.