Mark Your Calendars

A few items for your consideration:

Environmental Issues and Green Jobs
Town Hall Meeting

Wednesday, May 7 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Bensalem Municipal Township Building
2400 Byberry Road, Bensalem

With presentations by:
Edward G. Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania;
Mike Russo, President, Local 4889, United Steelworkers;
Rick Ewing, Lower Makefield Township Environmental Advisory Council
John Hanger, President and CEO, PennFuture; and

Representatives from local renewable energy companies.

Two bills are pending before the State Senate, the Energy Savings Bill (House Bill 2200) and the Clean Energy Funding Bill (Special Session House Bill 1)

Find out more about the bills and the issues.

Sponsored by Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future


DVRPC Public Meetings

As the federally designated metropolitan planning organization, DVRPC develops the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The TIP is the regionally agreed-upon list of priority projects, as required by federal law. The TIP document must list all projects that intend to use federal funds, along with nonfederally funded projects that are regionally significant. Also included are all other state funded capital projects. The projects are multi-modal; that is, they include bicycle, pedestrian, freight-related projects, and innovative air quality projects, as well as the more traditional highway and public transit projects.

DVRPC will open a public comment period for the Draft FY 2009 TIP for New Jersey , which covers Burlington , Camden , Gloucester and Mercer counties; and for Pennsylvania , which includes Philadelphia , Montgomery , Delaware , Chester and Bucks counties. The Draft TIP for New Jersey contains over 135 projects totaling more than $1.5 billion for phases to be advanced over the next four years, while the Draft Pennsylvania TIP contains approximately 350 projects totaling over $4 billion for phases over the next four years. The public comment period for the Draft TIPs will open on May 2, 2008.

In conjunction with the Draft FY 2009 NJ TIP and Draft FY 2009 PA TIP, DVRPC will need to amend the Destination 2030 Long-Range Plan, and conduct a Transportation Conformity finding. Destination 2030 is DVRPC’s federally mandated long-range plan, which is being updated as a result of changes to the TIP. Transportation Conformity is the process that ensures that plans and programs receiving federal funding are consistent with the region’s air quality goals. The public comment period for the Destination 2030 amendments and the Transportation Conformity finding of the TIPs as well as the Destination 2030 amendments will begin on May 16, 2008.

Please join us for a public meeting and information session on the Draft TIPs, amendments to the Destination 2030 Plan, and the Transportation Conformity findings between the hours of 4 and 6 p.m. on:

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
DVRPC Conference Center
190 North Independence Mall West, 8thFl.
Philadelphia, PA

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Cherry Hill Library
1100 Kings Highway North
Cherry Hill, NJ

TIP documents available at http://www.dvrpc.org/transportation/capital/tip.htm


These are lengthy documents but it would be well worth your time to look through the one for you county or area.