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Bowling Green-Warren County Transportation Officials Looking for Public Input

WKYU

Officials in Warren County are asking for residents' input on how to improve local transportation.

The survey from the Bowling Green & Warren County Metropolitan Planning Organization(MPO) will help shape priorites for future projects. The group's 2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) aims to prepare the region for an estimated 51% population growth within the next 25 years.

MPO Coordinator Karissa Lemon described the MTP as a wish list of projects that's updated every five years, while the Transportation Improvement Program plan covers the near-term.

"That's more of projects we expect to be funded in the next six years, and that we can see the different phases of those projects implemented within the next six years," Lemon said.

The MTP helps the planning organization figure out which projects to begin prioritizing as federal dollars become available.

To develop the MTP, Lemon's group needs the community to fill out their online survey. Without those details on barriers residents face during their commutes and other needs, it would be difficult to get projects off the ground.

"It can be easy to think that 'widening the road isn't that hard, just widen the road. Or just put in bike lanes. Just put paint on the ground.' But it is a lot more complicated than that," Lemon said. 

The survey period ends on Friday, Dec. 13. That's when staff will take feedback and write it into the 2045 MTP. The proposed docuement will then be made public for comment.

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