MDOT looking for input on state’s five-year transportation plan
Everyone has an opinion about Michigan’s transportation when they’re driving. Now the state is soliciting those opinions through a comment period on its five-year plan.
State officials are looking for regular Joe’s (or Josephine’s) to give their opinion on where state transportation should go and how they want it to get there. The solicitation is part of the annual comment period for the Michigan Department of Transportation’s Five Year Plan.
The plan covers how Michigan intends to spends its resources on transportation issues, such as road construction and mass transit, in the next five years. In the past this has mainly focused on road construction, but this year the emergence of the Detroit to Ann Arbor commuter rail project, Ann Arbor to Howell commuter rail project, Detroit Transit Options for Growth Study (aka Woodward mass transit line) and a host of local greenway initiatives are giving locals a variety of subjects to pontificate on.
You can make your opinion known where it counts here. The deadline for public comments is Dec. 21.
Source: Michigan Department of Transportation
Writer: Jon Zemke
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