2.09.2012

Jackson County, Missouri: Visting Portland is a "Smart Move"

This week an article in the Independence, MO daily newspaper with the headline County Keeps Rail Plan on Track, informed readers that “officials are trying to figure out which ideas from cities across the country are the best to borrow.” The same week, transportation authorities in Jackson County, Missouri, convened a series of workshops to get a sense of what locals think about the land use and economic development potential related to a proposed commuter rail line along the region's highly trafficked and increasingly congested interstate highways. Meanwhile, one of the municipalities in the corridor allocated $18,000 to a region-wide outreach program intended to educate and engage the regions’s auto-centric populace in the transit planning process.




It would appear that transit has found some traction in Missouri once again.