<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><h1 class="title" style="-webkit-hyphens: manual; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your input needed: TARC holding series of MoveLouisville workshops Jan. 13-17</span></font></h1><header></header><div><p><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://insiderlouisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Picture-11.png" data-slb-group="166155" data-slb-active="1" data-slb-internal="0" style="text-decoration: none; "><img alt="Picture 1" src="http://insiderlouisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Picture-11.png" width="337" height="435" scale="0" class="reader-image-large" style="float: none; margin: auto; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; "></a><a title="TARC" href="http://www.ridetarc.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; ">Transit Authority of River City</a> is holding a week-long series of Design Open Houses at TARC headquarters, Union Station Lobby, 1000 W. Broadway downtown.</span></font></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Louisville Metro residents are invited to submit their transportation ideas, observations, and solutions during a series of workshops/presentations and open-house events the week of Jan. 13.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">City officials are developing a 30-year multi-modal transportation plan – <a href="http://www.louisvilleky.gov/economicdevelopment/MoveLouisville/" style="text-decoration: none; ">Move Louisville</a> Strategic Multimodal Transportation Plan – meant to create greater mobility between places where people live, work, shop, eat and relax.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Attendees will have the first opportunity to talk with experts, give their input, and get a glimpse behind the curtain of transportation planning, according to a news release.</span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dates and times for the Design Open House workshops:</strong></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">· Monday, Jan. 13 – 6 p.m. (Initial Launch Presentation)<br>· Tuesday, Jan. 14 – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Open House)<br>· Wednesday, Jan. 15 – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Open House)<br>· Thursday, Jan. 16 – 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. (Open House)<br>· Thursday, Jan. 16 – 5:30 p.m. (Wrap-up Presentation )<br>· Friday, Jan. 17 – 9 a.m. (Wrap-up Presentation – repeat)</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The city received a $600,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s 2012 Transportation, Community and System Preservation Grant Program to refine its transportation plan.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The city matched the federal grant with $125,000, and partnered with TARC, which contributed $25,000, to help fund the total local match for MoveLouisville.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Development of the plan, which includes several opportunities for public input, began in November 2013 and will take about 10 months.</span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About MoveLouisville (description from website):</strong></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Move Louisville is a long-range strategic multi-modal transportation plan that will focus on creating greater mobility between the places where people live, work, shop and enjoy leisure time in Louisville.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Growing out of the city’s 25-year plan <a href="http://visionlouisville.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">Vision Louisville</a>, Move Louisville will consider travel by foot, bicycle, transit, paratransit and automobile, and will be folded into both regional and statewide transportation plans.</span></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Project goals:</strong></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">• Provide Connectivity Choices<br>• Protect Safety And Health<br>• Promote Economic Growth<br>• Maintain Fiscal Responsibility<br>• Assure Environmental Sustainability<br>• Enhance Neighborhoods</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></div></body></html>