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.

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!

Public Notice: Request for Qualifications | Civic Center Blvd. @ Valhi Blvd. Study

Notice is hereby given that the South Central Planning and Development Commission is requesting qualification statements for the following project.

Civic Center Blvd @ Valhi Blvd Study
State Project No. H.012859
F.A.P. No. H012859

An outline of the desired scope of work is included in this document: Civic Center Roundabout Stage 0 Scope.

Contract services are expected to commence after the contract is awarded at the October 26, 2017 Houma-Thibodaux Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Transportation Policy Committee meeting and will be completed by November 30th. This is a non-negotiated lump sum contract in the amount of $10,410. All interested firms are invited to submit their qualifications for undertaking the above study. This project and SCPDC Notice to Proceed are predicated upon federal funding authorization.

Interested firms shall furnish sufficient technical and supervisory personnel to insure expeditious completion of the work. Firms with demonstrated experience, competence, and qualifications pertinent to the above project are being sought. Socially and economically disadvantaged firms are encouraged to submit qualifications for undertaking the above mentioned work.

Qualification statements are to be submitted on Standard Form DOTD 24-102, “Professional Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project.” Submit your qualifications on Standard Form DOTD 24-102 on a CD or flash drive as a single PDF file (one copy) along with four hard (paper) copies of the completed 24-102 forms. Experience, both firm and individual; past performance on Commission projects; current work load; location where work will be performed and firm size will be the significant evaluation factors which will be used in selecting a firm for the above study. Failure to submit all of the information required on Standard Form DOTD 24-102, for the prime and each sub-consultant, will constitute a non-response.

Letters of interest and qualification statements are to be identified by Project Title and Project Number and are to be submitted prior to the 12:00 noon deadline on Thursday, August 3, 2017 by mail addressed as follows:

Ms. Julie Boudreaux
South Central Planning and Development Commission
P.O. Box 1870
Gray, LA 70359

Or hand-delivered to

South Central Planning & Development Commission
C/O Julie Boudreaux
5058 West Main Street
Houma, LA 70395

All inquiries should be sent in writing to: julie@scpdc.org.

Lafourche Parish Transit Feasibility Study

SCPDC has finished preparation of the Lafourche Parish Transit Feasibility Study draft and it is now ready for public review and comment. Please contact us with any comments you have concerning the draft document.

Lafourche Parish Transit Survey

The remarkable growth in Lafourche Parish may be creating an opportunity for new or expanded public transit service. Transit allows citizens who do not have access to a car to travel to work, school, and other daily needs, while relieving traffic congestion and easing air pollution.

South Central Planning and Development Commission is currently performing a “Transit Feasibility Study” to better understand what transit improvements might benefit the communities of Lafourche Parish.

Your voice matters!

Please follow the link below to share your thoughts about public transit service – every opinion is important, and will help to inform this study. The final report will be presented to the Parish in early 2015.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D2YCSL7