Metropolitan Kansas City's
Long-Range Transportation Plan

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Goal: Place Making

Coordinate transportation and land-use planning to create quality places and strengthen the region

Creating quality places through strategic integration of land use and transportation planning serves the sustainability of our region in many ways. Quality places are created with intention. They are designed to meet the needs of residents by accommodating a mix of uses. They are also planned in a way that integrates mobility options, fosters a sense of community and, perhaps most importantly, designed and built for longevity.

 

 

Strategies

1. Develop and connect major activity centers and corridors.

MobilityLink Major Activity Centers
Work with local governments to identify significant transportation corridors that tie activity centers together, and improve connections and mobility along those corridors.

2. Adopt "complete streets" policies to design and operate roadway with all users and modes in mind.

Transit-Supportive Developmenttransit-supportive development
Promote patterns of development that offer convenient and direct pedestrian connections, pedestrian-scale blocks and streets, interconnected street networks, buildings and entrances oriented along the street, and parks and plazas as community gathering spaces.

Complete streets
Enhance the region's quality places by accommodating vehicle traffic, pedestrians, bicyclists and public transit.

3. Invest in transportation projects that support successful, vibrant places.

Place Making 

Comments

"Older suburban cities (Overland Park, Shawnee, Lenexa, Lee's Summit, Independence, etc.) need to concentrate their own growth to make public transit links work from node to node."

"Keep Kansas City Suburban. That's the way it is now. It makes it nice, less density, more spread out. However this makes it difficult to serve the area with transit."

"Urban areas offer more efficiency in living and a better standard of living — closeness to stores, grocery, hospitals. Less traveling cost."

"Some people are always going to want the peace and quiet of being away from urban noise."

"Creating 'mini-downtowns' in suburban areas will help those who work in these cities but want a more urban feel. Help reduce expansion of public infrastructure."

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Performance Factors

  • Multimodal Options

Challenges