It's Time for a New Plan.

Every five years the North Florida TPO (Transportation Planning Organization) updates the Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). This Plan has a 20- to 25-year time horizon and addresses road, transit, freight, bike and pedestrian needs.
Our 2035 LRTP will include all of Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns Counties
and address six elements:

1. Vision - How and where do we want to grow, live and travel?
2. Goals & Objectives - What do we want the Plan to achieve?
3. Needs Plan - What is our wish list of projects needed to fulfill our vision?
4. Financial Resources - What funding will be available and what new sources do we need?
5. Cost Feasible Plan - How do we set priorities within funding constraints?
6. Plan Adoption - How do we reach consensus and formally adopt the Plan by the end of 2009 to obtain future funding?

 

Although the previous Long Range Transportation Plan identified $6.3 billion in transportation projects to meet our needs up to the year 2030, only $3.3 billion in funding was available. Since that plan was completed in 2004, much has changed—energy prices, environmental sensitivity, port activity, shrinking public-sector funding and more.

 

The gap between our needs and our resources will continue to widen unless we are willing to change our ideas about how we should live, travel and pay for transportation.