Central Minnesota long-range transportation plans - Region 5 and 7E
Welcome to the central Minnesota long-range transportation plan online open house!
This online open house invites you to help shape the future transportation system for Regions 5 and 7E. Your input will directly influence our long-range transportation plans and help create a vision for how people will move around our community in the years to come.
Online Open House Navigation
In the tabs below you will find sections for our online open house:
1. Plan Overview: Learn about the long-range transportation plans and understand why your input matters.
2. Survey: Complete a survey to help us understand your transportation needs and priorities.
3. Comment Map: Use the comment map to identify locations with transportation concerns, issues, or ideas for improvement.
4. Visioning: Explore draft transportation goals and tell us your vision for the future.
5. Comment Cards: Tell us any final thoughts and review additional project documents to learn more about the Transportation Plans for Region 5 and 7E.
Don’t forget to sign up for email updates in the top right corner. Feel free to reach out to any of the project contacts on the right if you have any questions or concerns!
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Plan Overview
Share Plan Overview on Facebook Share Plan Overview on Twitter Share Plan Overview on Linkedin Email Plan Overview linkWe are developing long-range transportation plans for Region 5 and 7E, which are represented by the Region Five Development Commission (R5DC)(External link) and the East Central Regional Development Commission (ECRDC)(External link).
Long range transportation plans (LRTPs) are long-term studies designed to evaluate regional transportation needs, align values and priorities, understand funding opportunities and gaps, and engage the public in understanding its wants and desires. For each region, the plans will establish a vision and a corresponding set of transportation goals, objectives, strategies, and actions.
Region 5 and 7E are part of Minnesota’s 12 Regional Development Organizations (RDOs), which are key partners in statewide transportation planning and programming. Each RDO works with MnDOT to solve regional transportation issues and ensure statewide consistency.
For more information, visit: https://www.dot.state.mn.us/planning/program/mpordcatp.html(External link)
Plan goals
Coordinate with other state, regional, and local plans and with planned transportation investments.
Identify the regional transportation needs of various groups that exist in each region, including residents, business owners, freight carriers, community organizations, and more.
Communicate regional transportation solutions with a focus on major roads and highways.
Offer strategies and policy recommendations to aid in the identification, prioritization, and implementation of future transportation projects.
We want to hear from you
We would like to hear from people who live, work, and travel in each of the regions to understand common transportation issues and set goals for improvements. There will be online and in-person opportunities to:
Learn about the transportation systems in Region 5 and Region 7E.
Share experiences and input related to transportation in the area.
Identify strategies to improve transportation.
Contacts
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Phone 320-223-6526 Email Thomas.Cruikshank@state.mn.us (External link) -
Phone 320-679-4065 x23 Email penny.simonsen@ecrdc.org (External link) -
Phone 218-884-0998 Email kbehrens@regionfive.org (External link)