Public Meetings for Metropolitan Transportation Plan Update and Regional Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Plan

The South Central Planning and Development Commission is requesting your participation in providing input on two separate transportation planning documents. Meetings will be held in various locations and times throughout these area. Your local knowledge and input is extremely valuable to us as we prepare the plans!

The Houma-Thibodaux Metropolitan Transportation Plan will detail roadway and transit projects within Assumption, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes. The Plan will highlight new roadways and the widening of existing roadways in addition to emphasizing bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, safety improvements, future transit service, and other strategies to alleviate congestion.

The South Central Regional Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Plan will detail projects and policies aimed at the reduction of bicycle and pedestrian related crashes and fatalities within a seven-parish area including Assumption, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Mary, and Terrebonne.

The public is invited to participate in the planning process through a series of short, interactive workshops designed to provide planners with needed local knowledge pertaining to the area’s transportation network. Participants will be given an opportunity to identify areas of congestion, unsafe segments of roadways, and potential solutions to those problems.

Workshops will be held at the following dates and locations:

April 30, 2019
Terrebonne Parish Main Branch Library
151 Library Drive, Houma
6 p.m.

May 2, 2019
Terrebonne East Branch Library
778 Grand Caillou Road, Houma
6 p.m.

May 7, 2019
Thibodaux Branch Library
3154 705 W 5th Street, Thibodaux
5 p.m.

May 9, 2018
Mathews Government Complex, Training Room
4876 Highway 1, Matthews
6 p.m.

May 14, 2019
Assumption Parish Main Library
293 Napoleon Avenue
2 p.m.

Make A Difference – Bicycle & Pedestrian Safety Survey

South Central Planning and Development Commission (SCPDC) is creating a regional plan to address bicycle and pedestrian safety. Funded by LA Department of Transportation & Development, it is our goal that the plan will help our region plan for safe bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure that will save lives, improve the quality of life for residents, connect schools, residences and businesses and benefit the health and welfare for people of all abilities. However, we cannot do this without your help!

 SCPDC has launched a new online digital survey to ensure we can get as much public input as possible, along with public meetings we plan to hold April-June of this year. Please take the time to take the survey and share with your colleagues, customers, clients, friends and family and share on your website and social media platforms. Flyers can be downloaded on our website as well. www.scpdc.org. Thank you so very much for your assistance. We look forward to planning safe transportation options for people of all ages and abilities.

MPO Metropolitan Transportation Plan Update

The Houma-Thibodaux Metropolitan Planning Organization is updating the long-range Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) for the Houma-Thibodaux urbanized area.

You are invited to participate in this plan update by taking the following survey. The survey will remain open until Wednesday, July 31, 2019!

Also, be on the lookout for our upcoming series of public meetings. We would love to see you at one of these meetings that will be held throughout Assumption, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes!