MDOT POLicy--re US-127 CRoss-Street Blockages

[artbe...@sbcglobal.net]

    I ddn't see this email that I received on June 20 until today.  Shortly after the June meeting I asked MDOT FOI for copies of a multimodal policy. Skip to the blue-highlighted documents below , especially "State Transportation P:olicy #10214".  There is hardly a line in it that MDOT isn't violating on US-127.  

    And the last thing is relevant but just guidelines...leaving the agency lots of  qualifiers to squirm around.  

         If some of us are interested, there is still the MDOT Transportation Commission Meeting July 31 in Howell. ( it could have been worse). The next one is November 6.  here is a  clip of the announcement:

                      from Art S

 

***************Operating Engineers Local 324 Training Facility
275 E Highland Road
Howell, MI 48843

Event Date

Start:July 31, 2025 10:00 AM

End:July 31, 2025 12:00 PM

The State Transportation Commission (STC) is the policy-making body for all state transportation programs and it oversees the administration of state and federal funds allocated for these programs. The STC is comprised of six members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the State Senate. For more information about the STC, visit www.Michigan.gov/StateTransportationCommission.

All meetings of the STC are open to the public, and attendance is encouraged.  Please direct any questions regarding these meetings to the Commission Office, either via mail to P.O. Box 30050, Lansing, Michigan 48909 r call 517-335-5920   *************************************************

MDOT;s Response to My Request:

From: MDOT-FOIA <mdot...@michigan.gov>

To: artbe...@sbcglobal.net <artbe...@sbcglobal.net>

Sent: Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:29:17 AM EDT

Subject: FOIA 2983

This notice responds to the correspondence received by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.   

 

Included is the public information pertaining to the “principal or overriding statements” in your recent FOIA request.   

Michigan Mobility 2045

MDOT Mission, Vision, Values Statement

State Transportation Commission Policy #10214

M2d2 Guidebook – Multimodal Development and Delivery Guidebook

 

To the best of my knowledge, information and belief, the information provided is full and complete as requested. 

 

MDOT’s FOIA Procedures and Guidelines can be accessed at: https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/foia

 

Sincerely,   

Jacke Salinas (She/Her)

Interim FOIA Coordinator

Office of Communications

Michigan Department of Transportation

C) (517) 243-9414

Sali...@Michigan.gov

 

  MY REQUEST FOR INFORMATION:

From: artbe...@sbcglobal.net <artbe...@sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2025 7:41 AM
To: MDOT-FOIA <MDOT...@michigan.gov>
Subject: Documents on non-Motorized Travel

 

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 I am requesting a prepared statements from MDOT that presents a commitment to multi-modal travel.  

 

1. Complete streets policy. 

2. MDOT"s duty to provide facilities that foster travel by bicycle on foot. 

 

    Such statements may be in many documents.  To avoid a lot of work,  I would ask you to send the principal or overriding statements. 

 

                       yours, 

 

                      Arthur Slabosky  517-614-0177

                     East Lansing.

[Tom Hardenbergh]

Art,

I reviewed the document you highlighted.  I heard the term "complete streets" years ago when an advocacy group in Lansing (Jessica Yorko led?) succeeded in getting a bike lane on west Saginaw.  I perceive ways in this document's phrasing for MDOT to avoid complying with complete streets.  Does MDOT's leadership and project leaders just dislike us and are able to ignore us due to our minority status despite the STC's policy?  LMB, TCBA, and other clubs and NMT orgs must keep pressure on MDOT to implement the CS policy when it sees a way not to comply; ex. US-127.

Tom H     

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[Jeanne Wright]

Hi

Just letting people know.  


I came home from being north today, Tuesday.   To buy gas got off 69 at Saginaw to head west to BJs.  Survey crew at the exit corner of exit and Saginaw.   Not sure why they were there but always told change is coming when you see that crew.      That is the exit that has too many curb cuts with 3 lanes before you get to Marketplace light.

Jeanne 

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