Metropolitan Kansas City's
Long-Range Transportation Plan

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MARC Transportation Committees Feedback

Overview

Transportation and environmental committees working under the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) have met to help identify important issues, objectives and strategies that should be considered as part of the development of Transportation Outlook 2040. During these meetings, each committee had a chance to respond to the same core questions as a starting point for their conversations.

What are the key transportation issues facing our region?

What are high-level actions or strategies in response to these issues?

Feedback from the MARC committees, in combination with citizen comments, will influence the creation of the plan's policy framework. This framework will serve as the foundation for the plan's direction and desired vision, and help develop detailed objectives, modal strategies and performance measures.

What They Said

MARC's Highway, Transit, Bicycle-Pedestrian, Goods Movement, Safety, Air Quality Forum, and Linking Transportation and the Environment committees had opportunities to respond to a similar set of questions. While the focus of these committees is very different, it quickly became clear that there is common understanding about the primary challenges facing our future transportation system, as well as the key values and potential strategies to face those challeges.

The committees each have met several times to define their lists of issues and strategies for consideration as part of Transportation Outlook 2040. Follow the links below for summaries of the committees' key issues and strategies.

Key themes that emerged across multiple committees included: