MAYOR CANTRELL RELEASES TRANSPORTATION STRATEGY, 'MOVING NEW ORLEANS'

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

May 2, 2019 


Contact: LaTonya Norton

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MAYOR CANTRELL RELEASES TRANSPORTATION STRATEGY:

'MOVING NEW ORLEANS'

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NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Cantrell today released her transportation strategy, Moving New Orleans: The Road to Equitable Transportation. Mayor Cantrell's action plan focuses on improvements to New Orleans' above-ground roadway network to more adequately move people and goods within the city, and among the region.

 

"The goal is transportation sustainability — and the action plan that we are releasing today is the roadmap to get there," said Mayor Cantrell. "We are focused on improving roadway conditions for all users, and we are committed to reducing injuries and fatalities on the roadway through better design."

 

The plan identifies several transportation priorities that the administration will be working on, with an emphasis on safety, accessibility, equity and connectivity.

 

Download the transportation strategy here.

 

The five-year action plan identifies cross-departmental initiatives that will guide the administration's work in transportation. It requires collaboration from partner organizations and seeks to improve coordination of major projects that improve transportation networks.

 

The Cantrell Administration will be working on the following:

  • Analyzing crash data and setting up real crash-mitigation countermeasures in our street design guidelines, and making data on crashes more available internally and externally. This will inform and direct funding to areas that are most threatening to people on the road.
  • Making improvements to signalization and traffic signals in areas of congestion. The City will perform studies on areas that are congested with the intention to make improvements to traffic flow around the City.
  • Completing a full plan for the bike network
  • Establishing direct transit linkages between neighborhoods and job centers -- in Orleans parish, and regionally to Jefferson. This means more service and/or express-type of service for people to get to jobs more easily.
  • Conducting a planning overhaul of the transit system regionally to improve streetcar, bus and ferry services so they serve more people where they need it
  • Exploring a direct transit link to the airport and pushing for regional passenger rail service from New Orleans to Baton Rouge
  • Improving school transportation safety conditions including traffic and conditions analyses and enhancing school bus operations


We want your input! Provide general comments and tell us what your priorities are by completing the feedback form here.

 

Learn more about Moving New Orleans by visiting the website here.

 

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