You all may have remembered that I posted my comments on the New Jersey TIP last month. By Law The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commision DVRPC opens up public comments on the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The TIP is kind of a must do list for all federally funded transportation projects in our region, if its not on TIP it doesn't get built. For more information on how a project gets funded go to www.dvrpc.org This Year the NJ TIP was being updated, I commented on a few projects including one called the Route 38 Corridor Study, my comments stated bicycle improvements needed to be included. Well the Regional Transportation Committee (of the DVRPC)took my advice and they will recommended to the DVRPC Board to include this in the corridor study. Public comments were few and far between only about 4 pages worth, which helped weigh mine, which took up a half page. More people making more suggestions to include bike facilities on the record will get noticed. Our next chance to influence transportation spending comes next month when the transportation enhancements projects are submitted for selection. In the future I will try to keep everyone informed when these critical comment periods open up. Its easy and fun. Usually there is no need to attend meetings, most public commentery programs have an email component. John _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the Bicycle Coalition of the Delaware Valley list named "bike." To subscribe or unsubscribe, see <https://list.bcdv.org/>.
