Increasing transit ridership is critical to maintaining a safe, multimodal transportation network that serves everyone. Increasing the share of people using transit also helps achieve other Connections 2050 goals to increase safety, reduce congestion, lessen roadway maintenance needs, improve air quality, and decrease the region's carbon footprint.
Connections 2050 sets a goal to integrate the infrastructure we use to move around the region into an accessible, multimodal transportation network, with transit, walking, and biking serving as fundamental components. Increasing the share of people choosing to use transit, walking, biking, and/or carpooling–as opposed to driving alone–reduces congestion, lessens roadway maintenance needs, improves air quality, and decreases the region's carbon footprint.
ctions 2050 sets a goal to rebuild and modernize the region’s transportation assets in order to achieve and maintain a state-of-good repair. This is tough work for our state departments of transportation, as our aging infrastructure creates competing needs for maintenance funding.
Connections 2050 envisions developing new and supporting existing places that are affordable and inclusive, provide multimodal and active transportation, and have safe and easy access to parks and open space. As part of this vision, the Plan sets a goal to foster racially and socioeconomically integrated neighborhoods and advance environmental justice for all the region’s inhabitants. A key strategy to reach this goal is to achieve equitable access to homeownership and the generational wealth-building associated with homeownership.
Business Formation Statistics, a new data product provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, is now included in DVRPC’s Tracking Progress trends. The Connections 2050 Plan seeks to foster innovation and a highly-skilled workforce, expand entrepreneurialism, encourage new business formation and growth, and support key economic sectors. Business formation statistics help quantify where we stand in achieving that goal.
