The City of Greensboro Planning Department’s latest quarterly GSO2040 Comprehensive Plan report on the progress toward reaching its goals is now up on the web for anyone who would like to see it.
Many area local governments are currently working on strategic and comprehensive plans meant to guide them well into the future. Sometimes those plans are implemented and, sometimes, they just sit on a shelf and gather dust. The City of Greensboro, in order to help avoid that latter outcome is providing frequent updates on the implementation of the plan that reaches a decade and a half into Greensboro’s future.
The new update, according to city officials, summarizes “some of the most important projects and trends shaping Greensboro.”
The entire update can be found online, but here are some highlights:
- Randleman Road Corridor Plan Phase 2. This work is nearing completion and, nearby, the South Greensboro Plan process is ramping up, and the East Gate City Boulevard Plan is “showing signs” of being implemented.
According to City of Greensboro planning officials, “projects focused in smaller geographical areas allow the city to address specific concerns.”
- Job training. This is a key aspect of the city’s long-term comprehensive plan to improve Greensboro’s economic competitiveness. (Not that the city seems to need any help in that regard in recent years, with a lot of major economic development successes under its belt and more said to be in the pipeline.)
To expand and improve the workforce, GuilfordWorks has created several training initiatives that are meant to help parents and guardians of students in the Guilford County school system develop the skills they need for the types of jobs that Greensboro has been attracting.
- A new program designed to make neighborhood streets safer. City of Greensboro staff is joining with neighborhood residents and others “to identify community roadway issues and solutions.”
The Neighborhood Traffic Management Program is accepting project applications until the end of August. In late June, the Greensboro Department of Transportation launched this program that’s meant to help make neighborhoods safer.
City officials described it as a program that “partners residents, neighborhood associations and homeowner’s associations with Greensboro Department of Transportation engineers to create tailored plans to reduce motor vehicle speeding and make residential streets safer for all users.”
Since then, the city has been taking requests – and you can apply to have your neighborhood or street checked out for safety concerns as long as you do so by Saturday, Aug. 31.
Residents, neighborhood associations and homeowner’s associations that would like to have their residential streets considered for “traffic calming efforts” may apply online at www.GSONTMP.org.
Other aspects of the city’s comp plan are also being implemented.
For those who want to stay up-to-date on the progress of GSO2040, you can sign up at the city’s website to receive an e-mail whenever a new comprehensive plan progress report is posted online.
More yada yada yada to please the other people.
All it takes is a policeman, speed gun and start giving expensive tickets for going 10 MPH over speed limit…..you will be amazed at how safe it gets Mike
Please don’t believe all that guff about “Speed Kills”. Yeah – IF you’re doing 80mph in a 35. But not for 75 in a 55.
US Speed limits are set far too low, because they’re set by politicians not road engineers. All it takes is a few self-righteous mad mothers to lobby a council meeting and voila! The Speed Limit’s reduced to silly slow.
I love it when all the same soccer moms are the ones who invariably get ticketed when enforcement is stepped up – as they demanded. Oh what delicious justice!
But the rest of us still have to live with the stupid speed limit for evermore, because they never return it to sensible levels.
Red light and speed cameras. They are all over the washington dc market and rake in millions. maybe then skippy can lower our taxes.
It amazes me when people advocate higher taxes/fines/fees for government in the belief that this will somehow lead to lower taxes/fines/fees.
The greed of government and its entire Parasitic Sector will never be sated, and certainly not by feeding it.
Those cameras are just another shakedown of the people by the state.
If they want to post cameras for those purposes, they need to be able to prove WHO was driving, until then fine the car, not the owner.
Because it’s a civil penalty, and not a criminal charge, the burden of proof is much lower. Courts have said it’s reasonable to assume the owner is the driver, which all they need to satisfy that civil level of burden. The bigger issue is who gets that money. Most of it goes to the company running the cameras. The government only gets what’s left over after their “fees” are subtracted. Either way, it’s just a money grab, rather than a safety tool.
Right.
And several of those companies have been caught shortening the duration of the yellow light at junctions, so as to create more “red light runners” and more revenue.
Also, rear end crashes always increase in number after the installation of red light cameras, as drivers slam on the brakes to avoid a ticket, rather than coasting through if the light only just turned yellow.
Best I can tell, their plan is to become a Socialist Utopia by 2040, if not sooner. Vote them out at the earliest possible juncture.
Are the “traffic calming efforts” the expensive new speed bumps they discussed earlier this year? If so, they might want to hold off until we get through the leaf season, since the excess leaves that will not fit in 95-gallon containers may “calm” the traffic without wrecking the shock absorbers…
Big Brother is here….. Now.
George Orwell 1984 To many years to remember
Really? They did THAT Much! I seriously doubt it. They are busy approving every submittal that comes to them