Public input is being sought by the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area Planning Agency, or MAPA, for the 2050 long range transportation plan.
Michael Felschow, Program Director for MAPA, says the organization creates a regional long range transportation plan every five years that includes a 20-year list of transportation projects.
Felschow says the long range transportation plan has to cover all service mode transportation.
He says some of the projects in the plan include adding roads and paving dirt roads.
"We are going to be looking at things like widening roads, improving transit where appropriate, adding in bike and ped facilities where appropriate, improving safety on the interstate, figuring out where we need to put in left hand turn lanes, figuring out where we need to put in adaptive signaling or intelligent transportation systems to get more out of the concrete we already have.”
Felschow says the plan will also help ensure that the level of infrastructure in the region matches its economic growth.
MAPA’s public meetings on the 2050 long range transportation plan will be held throughout the month of March. For more information on dates, times and locations, the website is mapacog.org.