Strategic Deployment Plan - sacog

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SACOG Metropolitan Transportation Plan 2025
http://www.sacog.org/mtp/pdf/Final%20Interim%20MTP%2005-07.pdf
SACOG
May 15, 2002
This plan pursues ten goals [described under “Summary” below and also
described in the ITS VISION document], under an over-arching goal of
improving quality of life.
Quality of life may mean somewhat different things to different people, but it
generally encompasses quiet and safe neighborhoods, affordable housing, j ob
opportunities, good schools, limited environmental pollution, recreational and
social activities— and adequate transportation to allow access to places where
these activities occur. Toward that end, this plan seeks to promote development
that is less dependent on autos, increase transit service and use, control the
spread and amount of congestion, attain clean air, and rein in urban sprawl.
PURPOSE
The region needs a new transportation vision and plan. Even with the high
priority given to transit expansion in this plan, transit ridership is expected to
only slightly more than double; and even with this plan’ s commitment of
regional funds to bicycle and pedestrian proj ects, the share of trips made by
cycling and walking is not predicted to change much. That leaves the region
facing a 40 percent or greater increase in auto travel. Obviously it makes a
difference whether those people will drive alone or ride in carpools, and where
on the system they travel. Steps to reduce travel, or change the way people
travel, will become imperative. The predominance of low-density suburban
development with j obs and shopping separated from residential areas cannot
continue indefinitely. While the region cannot reasonably be expected to build
its way out of congestion, the investments in this plan do make a difference,
lessening congestion in some corridors depending on where the region invests in
more transit and road capacity or land use changes.
This plan will guide the proj ect programming process in two ways — first, by the
requirement that proj ects must be consistent with this plan to be eligible for
funding through the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP)
process, of which this report is a part, and second, by virtue of the fact that this
plan will directly identify candidate proj ects for funding in the upcoming state
and federal funding cycles.
The Metropolitan Transportation Plan places proj ect areas within the context of
ten goals. These ten goals are as follows:
SUMMARY
QUALITY OF LIFE. The plan is designed to meet the needs of everyday
travel for all types of purposes as well as for large regional movements over
the long term. The stakeholders recognized that transportation is closely
connected with many other issues, such as air quality, the environment,
and land use, health, safety, and economic vitality and developed goals and
actions in the plan to address these issues.
ACCESS AND MOBILITY. Access to Downtown Sacramento, other urban core
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