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Share your ideas for the City of Oxford’s Bicycle-Pedestrian Master Plan: Survey open through May 31

The master plan aims to improve infrastructure, safety, and connectivity to public transportation throughout the city

by Susan Meikle, University Communications and Marketing • Published
Pedestrian crossing on High Street
Pedestrian crossing on High Street
Sustainability • Oxford and Beyond

Share your ideas for the City of Oxford’s Bicycle-Pedestrian Master Plan: Survey open through May 31

Pedestrian crossing on High Street
by Susan Meikle, University Communications and Marketing • Published

The city of Oxford, in partnership with Butler County Regional Transit Authority (BCRTA), has been awarded a planning grant by the Federal Transit Administration to develop a Bike-Pedestrian Master Plan.

The plan will focus on improving bicycle and pedestrian connections along existing roadways to BCRTA transit facilities, linking neighborhoods, schools, and employment centers to transit stops through safe and accessible infrastructure.

These efforts will focus on key roadway corridors and enhancing bike and pedestrian infrastructure within Oxford to complement the existing and planned Oxford Area Trail System. 

It supports Oxford’s commitment to equity and carbon neutrality by fostering a more connected and accessible community through enhanced coordination between public transit and other modes of transportation.

Share your ideas and help influence future improvement

Take a short survey and give your input on biking and walking in Oxford, now and in the future. This survey should take about 5-10 minutes.

Where do you experience challenges while walking or biking?

Drop a pin on the interactive map to Indicate what you like, places you go, where you think improvements are needed, and other ideas about Oxford's current Bike-Pedestrian network

Supporting Miami University’s 2040 carbon neutrality goal

Oxford’s Bike-Pedestrian Master Plan directly supports the Miami 2040 Climate Action Plan, Goals 1-3 of the Emissions from Commuting and University-financed Travel (Scope 3) section, to help reducing carbon emissions from students, staff, and faculty commuting to campus as much a possible, according to Susan Meikle, lead writer of the Miami 2040 Plan, former co-chair of the Climate Action and Sustainability Council (CASC), and University Communications and Marketing writer and sustainability communications.

 Improving bicycle and pedestrian connections to the new Chestnut Street Station BCRTA transit facility, opening this fall, can help increase accessibility of alternative transportation modes and reduce the campus drive-alone rate, said David Prytherch,co-chair of the CASC Transportation Working Group, professor of Geography, chair of the city of Oxford Planning Commission, and member of the city of Oxford’s Climate Action Steering Committee. 

The Bike-Pedestrian plan may also help reduce residential student demand for long-and short-term parking on campus, reduce vehicular trips and related emissions, and better support alternative transportation, Prytherch said. 

 

 

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