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Thurston Regional Planning Council briefs Lacey on 25-year transportation plan, warns targets unlikely without land-use changes
Summary
Thurston Regional Planning Council staff told the Lacey City Council the regional transportation plan (RTP) updates current projects and targets for the next 25 years but said planned improvements alone are insufficient to meet adopted goals without changes in land use and additional measures.
Katrina Van Every, transportation manager for the Thurston Regional Planning Council, told the Lacey City Council on March 11 that the region’s updated Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) looks ahead 25 years to 2050 and is required by state and federal rules. The RTP lists about 80 regionally significant projects and evaluates modes including walking, bicycling, transit, freight and highways.
Van Every said the RTP is constrained by realistic financial forecasts and is not a wish list: “the plan is not intended to be a wish list of things that we hope will be able to get done over the next 25 years, but it's supposed to be based in reality.” She said the…
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