Investing in our future

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Welcome

Mell Henderson, MARC's transportation director

Message from Mell
The long-range plan is essential to the health of our region. It will guide our investment decisions for years and allocate billion of dollars to address transportation needs in two states and nine counties. More from Mell Henderson

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Changing Kansas City
The last 30 years have brought significant changes to metropolitan Kansas City. We expect that the next 30 years will bring even more.
What's changing

What We're Doing

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Call for projects
We are working with local jurisdictions and transit agencies to prioritize projects for Transportation Outlook 2040 that will help the KC region region best address our future needs. Review projects

David Warm (center), MARC's executive director

Facing new realities
As we plan Greater Kansas City’s future, the context for our decisions is shifting profoundly and rapidly. More from David Warm


Get Involved

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Public meetings in February
Learn about an adaptive land-use scenario for Greater Kansas City at public meetings on Feb. 3, 4, 11 or 17, 2010. More details or RSVP now

 

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Take the survey
To adapt more sustainable types of development in the future, we'll need to change some local and regional policies. What policies are local governments likely to adopt? What would you support? Survey

 

The Vision

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Framing the plan
MARC has created a policy framework for Transportation Outlook 2040 based on common themes we've heard from citizens, area leaders and planners.

It describes major challenges facing our future transportation system, key values and ideas for how to respond to the challenges. Learn more

How will we grow?
Compare two future scenarios showing alternate ways of accommodating the region’s expected overall growth. About the scenarios