Goals:

- Ensure the continued provision of bus service throughout the City of Muncie including purchase of replacement transit vehicles.

-Provide a safe, well-maintained, functional multi-modal transportation system that is compatible with planned community growth and minimizes traffic congestion.

-Develop cost-effective, environmentally sound plans, programs, standards, and enforcement procedures for the maintenance and extension of public and private facilities.

-Promote the development of land, parking facilities and effective movement of people and goods within the Central Business District (also known as City Center), while improving the aesthetic character and environmental quality of downtown Muncie.

-Promote the community's ability to improve the surface transportation system by means of an improved economic base resulting from orderly economic development encompassing all industries - housing, retail, manufacturing and tourism.

Objectives:

-Assure a cost-effective transportation system.

-Use the existing transportation facilities to their maximum efficiency.

-Decrease transportation related fatalities and accidents.

-Reduce congestion and improve circulation, particularly for the City Center, University and major activity areas.

-Provide satisfactory access/connectivity from developed areas to the regional highway system.

-Increase intermodalism to promote energy and environmental conservation.

-Improve accommodation of non-motorized travel and the elimination of conflict between modes of travel.

-Improve and increase the role of transit services to improve overall transportation system efficiency.

-Improve and promote pedestrian and bicycle facilities and circulation.

-Ensure that transportation planning efforts consider citizen needs for all modes of transportation and concerns for impacts of the transportation system on other elements such as neighborhoods and businesses.

AREA-WIDE PRIORITIES

Throughout the planning year, input is sought from neighborhood groups, civic organizations, business leaders, private citizens, elected officials, and other government officials who relay their