Plans to get more pedestrian-friendly are in the works
Proposals to make Berrien Couny more friendly for bicycle riders and pedestrians are in the works.
TwinCATS, the Twin Cities Area Transportation Study, asked a committee take a look at those proposals, reports the Herald-Palladium.
The group — informally named the Walk & Roll Subcommittee — is getting help from Southwest Michigan Planning Commission staff as it reviews the proposals. Associate planner Anna Rahtz recently addressed TwinCATS about the proposals.
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“We were presenting it (the draft) to get feedback from the TwinCATS members for the projects in their jurisdictions,” Rahtz said. “It was mostly small corrections — there were a couple of comments about the on-road (trail) facilities needing to be more connected to each other.”
The Walk & Roll Subcommittee is studying how to build a safe transportation network for bicyclists and pedestrians — and, whenever possible, to find ways to connect or extend current trails throughout the TwinCATS metropolitan area, Rahtz said.
For information on other projects undertaken by TwinCATS, read the rest of the story.
Source: Herald-Palladium
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