by Rachel Meinke | Jul 24, 2013 | Air Quality, Regional News, Transit, Transportation
In mid-July, ACOG staff and lead consultant, URS Corporation, held a series of workgroup meetings in order to educate key stakeholders about the possibility of enhanced public transportation options within the region. The meetings were part of the public outreach...
by Rachel Meinke | Nov 13, 2012 | Transit, Transportation
On October 31, ACOG kicked off the second phase of our Regional Transit Dialogue process, called RTD2. No one arrived in costume, but the Steering Committee ate Halloween candy and discussed the next steps for regional transit in the Central Oklahoma area. Our...
by Rachel Meinke | Oct 23, 2012 | Transportation
Transportation planning starts with understanding where people are going to and coming from. These destinations, or “trip generators” as planners like to call them, are sometimes near where people live and sometimes not. When trip generators are concentrated in areas...
by Rachel Meinke | Oct 3, 2012 | Transit, Transportation
In 2009, ACOG began a visioning process to determine the desire for expanded and enhanced regional public transportation. This “Regional Transit Dialogue” (RTD) brought together locally elected officials, policy stakeholders, private sector leaders and the general...
by Rachel Meinke | Sep 15, 2010 | Transit, Transportation
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ryAoebKJ0]As the Central Oklahoma region grows in population, so too, does our interest in a more comprehensive public transit system. In our Encompass 2035 survey, conducted in 2009, enhancing transit was a consistent theme...
