ODOT updating 25-year Oregon Transportation Plan: Learn more, provide feedback – KTVZ

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Why do you have to care in regards to the “Oregon Transportation Plan?” Effectively, now you possibly can determine that out with a video collection and on-line instrument aimed toward serving to everybody study extra about this influential guiding doc.

The Oregon Transportation Plan, or OTP, units the state’s transportation insurance policies and funding priorities for the subsequent 20 to 25 years. It lets ODOT and different choice makers know what’s necessary to you, shaping the state’s transportation system by the yr 2050. We’re updating the plan now, so get the most recent on the web site. 

Take the quiz!

You’re invited to go to the on-line instrument to overview the plan’s targets, check your data on the plan, and expertise how completely different investments can impression you and others across the state in distinctive methods. ODOT will incorporate suggestions from the net instrument within the plan’s growth. Because the plan makes progress, there can be extra alternatives for public suggestions. The plan is scheduled to be finalized by mid-2023.

Assist determine what’s necessary

ODOT has additionally launched a assortment of movies that options various voices throughout the state to indicate how transportation performs a important position in many individuals’s lives. The movies spotlight their lived experiences with transportation in cities and cities all through Oregon and present firsthand why it’s necessary to plan for Oregon’s transportation future.

Observe – we need to hear all factors of view, so the net instrument interprets simply into different languages. Please assist us unfold the phrase.

Why do you have to get entangled?

Oregon’s transportation system supplies entry to jobs, healthcare, childcare, meals, housing, recreation, and leisure actions, and it performs a important position in a wholesome financial system. Updates to the OTP will end in a plan that may adapt to ever-changing variables reminiscent of local weather change, social fairness, inhabitants development, new applied sciences and extra. Need assistance collaborating? Name 503-986-3531 or statewide relay at 7-1-1. Let your voice be heard!