What's New

Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham Connections Update.

10/29/07 - 2007 Urban Mobility Report

Northern Beltline Intersecting Roadways Plan

1/07/08 - Transit Planning: Refined Concepts

The RPC, in coordination with the BJCTA, Operation New Birmingham, and the Greater Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce is assisting the City of Birmingham with identifying options for the development of an initial minimum operating segment for a streetcar line.  As part of this coordinated effort, the RPC refined the conceptual transit services/routes connecting with the City Center based on identified projects, both programmed and visionary, within the adopted Birmingham 2030 Regional Long Range Transportation Plan and the adopted Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority's Comprehensive Transit Development Program (CTDP).  Click here to view a map of the refined services.

The RPC is also developing, in partnership with the Alabama Department of Transportation 3rd Division, the BJCTA, Jefferson and Shelby Counties, and the Cities located along/within the US 280 corridor, a scope of work to complete a transit alternatives analysis for the US 280 corridor.  This builds upon previously identified strategies from the Birmingham Regional Alternatives Analysis completed in 2004 which were adopted into the Birmingham 2030 Long Range Transportation Plan's visionary element. Since the ALDOT has recently proposed geometric modifications in the corridor such as an elevated roadway, additional lanes and access management improvements, a reassessment of feasible transit projects is needed.

Finally, the RPC is beginning the alternatives analysis for I-65 and US 31 south corridors between I-20/59 and Valleydale Road.  This is a continuation of the initial feasibility study, MAGIC-65, which was completed previously.