How to Stop a Highway: US DOT Transportation Toolkit Helps Public Engagement - CityLab

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The Department of Transportation releases a plain-language toolkit to help citizens weigh in on all kinds of projects--­so they can thwart the bad ones.

Today the U.S. Department of Transportation released a “Transportation Toolkit,” a plain-language citizen's guide to the government's process for major infrastructure undertakings, and how to get involved. Along with approachable graphics and flowcharts, the kit goes over the basic timelines that road, rail, bridge, and aviation projects usually follow, crucial concepts, entities, and laws that inform those processes, and the best strategies to make citizen voices heard. Think of this as everything you wanted to know about transportation planning, but were afraid to ask.

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How to Stop a Highway: US DOT Transportation Toolkit Helps Public Engagement - CityLab

MoBikeFed comment: We have another round of infrastructure funding coming in Missouri. For the first time in several years, MoDOT has a small amount of funding available beyond the basic "maintain the system" level. And the new Trump Administration is talking about a major, trillion dollar infrastructure investment.

So will those investments be made on the projects you would like to see?

This toolkit gives you the information you need to become involved in the process--and potentially, move our statewide and national infrastructure priorities in the direction you would like them to go.

Direct link to USDOT Transportation Toolkit:

https://www.transportation.gov/policy-initiatives/leadership-academy/tra...