City to hold public status-update on RAD Transportation Improvement Project

Posted on — Jeff Fobes

From the city of Asheville’ press release:

City to hold public meeting about River Arts District Transportation Improvement Project (RADTIP)

The City of Asheville invites citizens to attend an informational meeting about the River Arts District Transportation Improvement Project (RADTIP) from 4-7 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Pack Memorial Library, in the Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St. The meeting is a drop-in style event with stations where people can look at how plans are shaping up.

The RADTIP is a multi-modal transportation improvement along Lyman Street and a portion of Riverside Drive. This City project is partially funded by the Federal Highway Administration’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant (TIGER). These grants fund capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure.

The goal of the project is to improve the alignment of the road along Lyman Street and Riverside Drive adjacent to the French Broad River, including intersection improvements. Other improvements will include sidewalks, bike lanes, greenways, on-street and off-street parking, stormwater improvements, landscaping and streetscape amenities.

Stations will be set up around the room for people to view construction plans and give their input.

“We want people to know they can give input on the look and feel of the project,” said Dan Baechtold, Transportation Planner.

Staffers will have input forms attendees can fill out. And there will be a 30-day input period during which people may submit the forms, through Oct. 24.

More information is available on the City’s website:
http://www.ashevillenc.gov/Portals/0/city-documents/communityrelations/progress/20140611_RADTIP_propertyacquisition.pdf
For questions about the meeting or to submit written comments about the project, contact Dan Baechtold, 828-259-5842 or dbaechtold@ashevillenc.gov.

Find an expanded version of this press release on Asheville City Source, http://goo.gl/eI27j2.

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As a long-time proponent of media for social change, my early activities included coordinating the creation of a small community FM radio station to serve a poor section of St. Louis, Mo. In the 1980s I served as the editor of the "futurist" newsletter of the U.S. Association for the Club of Rome, a professional/academic group with a global focus and a mandate to act locally. During that time, I was impressed by a journalism experiment in Mississippi, in which a newspaper reporter spent a year in a small town covering how global activities impacted local events (e.g., literacy programs in Asia drove up the price of pulpwood; soybean demand in China impacted local soybean prices). Taking a cue from the Mississippi journalism experiment, I offered to help the local Green Party in western North Carolina start its own newspaper, which published under the name Green Line. Eventually the local party turned Green Line over to me, giving Asheville-area readers an independent, locally focused news source that was driven by global concerns. Over the years the monthly grew, until it morphed into the weekly Mountain Xpress in 1994. I've been its publisher since the beginning. Mountain Xpress' mission is to promote grassroots democracy (of any political persuasion) by serving the area's most active, thoughtful readers. Consider Xpress as an experiment to see if such a media operation can promote a healthy, democratic and wise community. In addition to print, today's rapidly evolving Web technosphere offers a grand opportunity to see how an interactive global information network impacts a local community when the network includes a locally focused media outlet whose aim is promote thoughtful citizen activism. Follow me @fobes
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