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Welcome to the homepage for the Sarasota/Manatee MPO's 2045 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). The LRTP guides investment in the Sarasota/Manatee regional transportation system for the next 25 years.
The purpose of the 2045 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) is to develop future transportation facilities in Sarasota and Manatee Counties. The LRTP must consider the full complement of transportation modes – roads, bicycles, pedestrians, trails, transit, parking, railroads and airports. The plan includes at least twenty years and must be updated every five years.
What is a Long Range Transportation Plan?
The LRTP presents the transportation improvements that are needed today and in the future to help move people and goods safely and conveniently about the community. Based on a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive (3-C) planning process, the MPO’s LRTP is governed by Federal law and regulations found in Title 23 United States Code (USC) Section 134, Title 49 USC Section 5303, and codified in Title 23 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 450.
Required planning elements include analysis of comprehensive plans for all partner jurisdictions, regional modeling, scenario development, revenue forecast, 25-year cost feasible budget, and extensive public outreach and community engagement.
Schedule
Timeline
Presentations, Programs, and More
Choices: Scenario Planning Workshop
The Sarasota/Manatee MPO, in partnership with FDOT, hosted the Choices: Scenario Planning Workshop. Participants explored how three themes, derived from community surveys and workshops, compared to the current trend, could play out over the next fifty years. Each scenario illustrated future types and locations of communities, which influence how people will travel in the future. Now, the public can help guide the community vision of the Sarasota/Manatee region by taking the Scenario Survey.
Keynote Speakers:
Chris Sinclair, Renaissance Planning
Michael Gallen, Manatee Chamber of Commerce
Christine Johnson, Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast
Patty Hurd, Kittelson & Associates
Current Trend
Economic Diversity
Environmental Health
Vibrant Places
Documents
TransForum: Neighborhoods
Over 100 community members attended the TransForum: Neighborhoods | Bus, Bike, Walk at the Sarasota Bayfront Community Center and shared their insight on proposed walking, biking, and transit connections.
The outcome identified community priorities including bicycle and pedestrian safety education, building off road multi-use paths/trails, and widening sidewalks to accommodate bicycles and pedestrians (shared-use paths) in addition to adding bicycle lanes on roads. Improvements to reduce congestion, improvements to public transit, rebuilding roads and stormwater systems for flooding, storms, and sea-level rise, and using technology to improve signal timing and traffic management proved to be top priorities for the community as well.
Documents
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