There are many important reasons why good transportation planning benefits our community, including:

• To ensure all of our citizens and visitors can get to the places they need to go.
• To support the local economy with the transportation choices needed to thrive.
• To create quality neighborhoods and activity centers that are better because of the highways, streets,
  sidewalks, trails and buses that serve them.
• To protect and preserve the natural environment in which we live.
• To make wise choices when spending our citizen’s tax dollars.
• To meet federal mandates.