How Important is Public Transit, Pedestrian or Bicycle Facilities to You?

What current and future highway projects in your region are important to you? Do you have an innovative idea to maintain our roads and bridges? How important is public transit, pedestrian, or bicycle facilities to you? Do general aviation airports or Registry of Motor Vehicles branches in your region need investment? How much transportation funding should go into maintaining Massachusetts’ existing roads, bridges, and public transit systems and how much into expanding services and facilities into new areas?

MassDOT and the MBTA are preparing five-year capital plans, blueprints that will guide investments in the state’s transportation system between 2017 and 2021.

The Capital Investment Plan determines how state transportation officials prioritize largest investments, covering all transportation projects – everything from highway and municipal projects to regional airports and rail and transit, including the MBTA and Regional Transit Authorities.

These Capital Conversations will help to guide our five-year Capital Investment Plan process as well as upcoming planning processes for statewide bicycle, pedestrian and rail plans. We want to hear from you about how those investments should be prioritized in order to maintain and modernize the Commonwealth’s transportation facilities. How can we improve our transportation systems, increase transportation capacity where existing facilities are inadequate, and build new projects to help communities to prosper and residents to get where they need to go?

Representatives from MassDOT and the MBTA will be on hand to hear your input about transportation needs and capital priorities. Please help spread the word about these Capital Conversations to friends, family and business associates. Your participation is critical to our success.

Capital Conversation Dates and Locations; Online Conversation Information:

• Monday, October 19, 6:00 p.m.
• Monday, October 19, 4:00 p.m., State Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza, Boston
• Wednesday, October 21, 6:30 p.m., Union Station, 2 Washington Square, Worcester
• Wednesday, October 21, 6:00 p.m., Leominster City Hall, 25 West Street, Leominster
• Thursday, October 22, 6:30 p.m., Cambridge Rindge and Latin HS, 459 Broadway, Cambridge
• Monday, October 26, 6:00 p.m., Braintree City Hall, 1 John F. Kennedy Memorial Drive, Braintree
• Monday, October 26, 6:00 p.m., Bangs Community Center, 70 Boltwood Walk, Amherst
• Tuesday, October 27, 6:00 p.m., Battleship Cove Marine Museum (Ward Room), 5 Water Street, Fall River
• Tuesday, October 27, 6:00 p.m., Middlesex Community College, Lowell Campus, 33 Kearney Square, Lowell
• Wednesday, October 28, 6:00 p.m., Peabody City Hall, Wiggin Auditorium, 24 Lowell Street, Peabody
• Wednesday, October 28, 6:00 p.m., Natick Town Hall, 13 East Central Street, Natick
• Thursday, October 29, 6:00 p.m., Pittsfield City Hall, City Council Chamber, 70 Allen Street, Pittsfield
• Thursday, October 29, 6:00 p.m., Plymouth Town Hall, 11 Lincoln Street – Harbor Room, Plymouth
• Monday, November 2, 6:30 p.m. Mansfield Town Hall, 6 Park Row, Mansfield
• Thursday, November 5, 6:00 p.m., Springfield City Hall, 36 Court Street, Springfield
• Thursday, November 5, 6:30 p.m., Cape Cod Community College, Tilden Arts Theater, 2240 Iyannough Road, West Barnstable

Online Capital Conversation

• Monday October 19th – Thursday November 5th
  Can’t make a meeting? Email comments to masscip@state.ma.us

Meeting locations are accessible to people with disabilities and those with limited English proficiency. Accessibility accommodations and language services will be provided free of charge upon request, and as available. Requests should be submitted within ten days of the meeting at which services will be required, if at all possible. Such services include documents in alternative formats, translated documents, assistive listening devices, and interpreters (including American Sign Language). For more information or to request reasonable accommodation and/or language services, please contact Trish Foley at (857) 368-8907 or trish.foley@dot.state.ma.us.