Draft 2010 Strategic Intermodal System Strategic Plan and Summary of Proposed Designation Changes Available for Public Comment
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) announces the Draft 2010 Strategic Intermodal System (SIS) Strategic Plan and Summary of Proposed Designation Criteria Changes are available for public and partner review from November 24, 2009 through December 28, 2009. During this time, FDOT invites partners and the public to offer comments on these draft documents. FDOT is also posting for comment a summary other potential changes to designation criteria being evaluated as part of the 2010 SIS Designation Update process.
The Draft 2010 SIS Strategic Plan provides policy guidance for designation and implementation of Florida’s Strategic Intermodal System (SIS), building on the policy foundation of the 2005 SIS Strategic Plan.
The SIS was established in 2003 to enhance Florida’s economic competitiveness by focusing state resources on the transportation facilities most critical for statewide and interregional travel. The SIS is a statewide network of high-priority transportation facilities, including the state’s largest and most significant commercial service airports, spaceport, deepwater seaports, freight rail terminals, passenger rail and intercity bus terminals, rail corridors, waterways, and highways.
A 31-member leadership committee composed of FDOT and its partners met from January – October 2009 and made recommendations to FDOT for updating the plan. Many other statewide, regional and local partners provided input and feedback throughout the process, including twelve regional workshops held in fall of 2009. Based on all of this input, FDOT drafted the 2010 SIS Strategic Plan and proposed designation criteria changes. Following this public and partner review period and final internal review, FDOT will adopt the 2010 SIS Strategic Plan and designation criteria changes in January 2010.
Comments on the Draft 2010 SIS Strategic Plan and proposed designation criteria changes may be submitted electronically using the on-line comment form on the SIS Update web site (see link below) or by submitting comments in writing by mail or fax to the address provided below.
We hope you will take time to review the Draft 2010 SIS Strategic Plan and proposed designation criteria changes and give us the benefit of your comments. All comments submitted will be reviewed and considered by FDOT.
A copy of the draft Plan is available on the SIS Update web site at:
http://www.sisupdate.org<http://www.sisupdate.org/>
Or you may obtain a copy by writing or faxing your request to the address below:
Mr. Brian S. Watts
2010 SIS Plan Update Project Manager
Office of Policy Planning
Florida Department of Transportation
605 Suwannee Street, MS 28
Tallahassee, Florida 32399
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Call for Papers: PROBIKE/PROWALK FLORIDA 2010 “The Dollars and Sense of Bicycling and Walking”
FBA needs your expertise for the ProBike/ProWalk Florida 2010 conference to be held May 11-13 in Lakeland.
At our inaugural Florida Bike Summit at Florida’s state capitol last April, it became very clear that for significant headway to be made at this level – or any level, for that matter – it’s necessary to put dollar values on the benefits of creating communities that are bike/ped-friendly. Likewise, costs associated with not having that kind of environment are just as important. Beyond money spent on bike-related tourism and accompanying tax revenue collected by the state, cycling and walking impacts many aspects of our economy. Some examples include individual and government savings or costs related to health, environmental impacts, and the one with arguably the biggest impact – transportation.
To assist FBA begin what we know will be the complex process of collecting and analyzing credible data, we’ve decided to make bike/ped economics the theme of ProBike/ProWalk Florida 2010. If you think you have something to offer in terms of a conference session topic, please consider submitting a paper that summarizes what you’d like to present by December 1, 2009. We’d also like to get sessions that are appropriate for professional development credits certified for planners, landscape architects, transportation engineers, and other professionals, so please keep that in mind when developing your topic.
Please direct your questions and submit session summaries with the following information to Dan Moser, FBA Program Manager, at dan@floridabicycle.org:
Contact Information, Session Topic, Topic Significance to Conference, Outline of Presentation/Session, Other Proposed Speakers to Compliment Topic, and Date Submitted.
Your input is vital to the overall success of the 5th edition of our conference.
“Your Roads-Your Rides”
Organized by Lake County Bicycle Alliance
Hosted by: The Cycling Hub
1200 Oakley Seaver Drive, Suite 111
Clermont, Florida 34711
352-536-2453
Would you like to experience common courtesy and respect (from drivers) as a cyclist on the roads of Lake County? We are working with law enforcement, media, government, and the bicycle community to promote, and enforce, Florida Bicycle Law. Whether you compete, take an occasional family ride, or are an enthusiast, for less time than “a ride” come see how “WE” can make roads safer, and more enjoyable, for us all.
Prioritize Bicycling and Walking in the next Federal Transportation Funding Bill
Congress is writing a bill that will define our national transportation system for the next 6 years and we need your help to make sure that your Member of Congress weighs in on the transportation bill to support bicycling and walking.
Representative Daniel Lipinski (D, IL) is circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter proposing that the upcoming Transportation Bill, which is currently being drafted by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (T&I), promotes and funds alternate transportation options. Representative Lipinski is asking his colleagues in the House of Representatives to join him in a call for increased federal funding for bicycling and pedestrian programs.
We are thankful for Congressman Lipinski’s efforts on behalf of cyclists nationwide and urge you to contact your Representative to ask them to join Mr. Lipinski and lend their voice to this important debate.
Please click here to contact your Representatives office today and urge them to sign onto Congressman Lipinski’s policy letter today.
Rumbles? No. AVPMs? Yes!
Huh?
OK , in English. Effective 2009 the Florida Department of Transportation will require “Audible and Vibratory Pavement Markings” on projects widening or resurfacing rural highways (state roads only). These are a huge improvement over the ground-in rumble strips that have been installed on some highways; the ground-in rumbles are treacherous for cyclists.
AVPMs are best described with a photo (click photo to enlarge).
The dimples or ridges create a sound that cyclists can easily hear when a car tire runs on the stripe, and the sound and even vibration transmits into the car’s passenger compartment as well. The dimples or ridges will not pose a safety problem for the cyclist riding over the stripe. (A number of cyclists on FDOT staff test-rode them to be sure!)
AVPMs can also be used in urban areas where run-off-the-road crashes are a problem, such as this curve on Tuskawilla Road in Seminole County. AVPMs could mitigate the run-off problem without creating problems for cyclists as (for example) these posts and raised pavement markers do.
Complete Streets Video from AARP
Dr. Bob Chauncey from the National Center for Bicycling and Walking explains “complete streets.”
http://www.aarp.org/bulletin/interactive/complete_streets.html