NBTS Advisory Committee
Selects Preferred Strategy
The Northwest Butler Transportation
Advisory Committee met on September 10, 2003 to review three
Build alternative long range plans and the Do Nothing / No Build
alternative and to vote on advancing a recommended preferred
strategy to the OKI Board for incorporation into the OKI Regional
Long Range Plan.
After reviewing a comparison
of the safety and transportation effects or benefits of each
of the alternatives, and consideration of each alternative's
ability to address the project goals established by the Committee,
the Committee eliminated the least preferred alternatives through
a series of votes, and then voted for a preferred between the
two remaining alternatives. In the final vote, the Committee
selected Alternative 5C to be recommended to the OKI Board.
It was noteworthy that 29 of
the 32 Committee votes were for major transportation improvements
in the Northwest Butler County area (three abstained from the
final vote). In that all three Build alternatives shared several
major improvements, the overwhelmingly strong Committee consensus
and support for recommending the following common improvements
is also significant:
- Upgrade lane and shoulder widths
of critical portions of US 27, SR 73 and SR 177;
- Upgrade critical intersections
identified in this study;
- Re-align US 27 west of Millville;
and
- Re-align SR 129 in Millville
area.
Advisory Committee Chairman Ken
Bogard expressed his thanks and appreciation for all the time
and dedicated participation of the Committee members and for
the work of the project consultants, Balke American, for conducting
and presenting the planning and engineering technical studies,
and ME Companies and Hub Communications for their work in guiding
the public involvement effort, and the OKI staff, for their effective
direction of the study. The NBTS Study Team also thanks Ken for
his devoted Committee leadership for this important study.
The next step will be the presentation
of the recommendation to the OKI Board later this fall.
The other build alternatives
considered.
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