Street Smarts - Planning * Transportation Engineering * Surveying

Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP)

$6.54 billion of STIP funds has been identified to preserve, renovate and enhance Georgia's transportation system over the next four years. Street Smarts has been working with the Georgia Department of Transportation to get the word out.

Street Smarts is wrapping up the first year of a three-year contract to coordinate and facilitate the public involvement process for the Georgia Department of Transportation's Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). Funds are comprised of federal, state and local funds and state bonds.

The STIP, Georgia's four-year transportation and capital improvements program, is a listing of federally-funded transportation projects for Georgia's non-urbanized counties that are anticipated to be funded during fiscal years 2010-2013. Projects include highway, bridge, public transit, bike, pedestrian, railroad projects and other improvements. Projects listed in the STIP are identified through GDOT's ongoing planning processes and are vital to the state's transportation program. The Fiscal 2010-2013 STIP Financial Plan totals $6.54 billion.

The STIP Public Involvement Process was crafted to give all citizens and interested stakeholders the opportunity to review and comment on the state's transportation priorities for the next four fiscal years. A total of 12 public meetings for the STIP were held throughout the six non-urbanized GDOT Districts, Districts 1 through 6. District 7 is the metro-Atlanta region and therefore was not included. Several methods were used to advertise the meetings to the public including direct mailings, media release distributions, radio advertisements, use of the GDOT website, and posters in libraries across the State of Georgia.

SR 133 Widening
Brooks And Colquitt Counties, Georgia

Street Smarts was instrumental in the public participation program which made this project successful. The SR 133 project, from Valdosta to Moultrie in South Georgia is a road improvement impacting two counties, several cities and one railroad. Since two historically underrepresented populations are significant in this area, Street Smarts' efforts to reach these populations included bilingual newsletters and a website.

In November 2005, The Georgia Partnership for Transportation Quality (GPTQ) presented Street Smarts with a Design Award in Environmental Planning for our role in the State Route 133 Public Participation Program.

Sandy Springs

Street Smarts was engaged to define a grid road network for the Sandy Springs community. Working with a fifty member stakeholder group, Street Smarts conducted a three day charrette and a follow-up workshop to gain consensus on a plan that has since been adopted into the county's road improvement program. Some improvement projects will be done using Tax Allocation District funding, while a third group will be part of redevelopment of select land areas. In the original revitalization study, Street Smarts performed a regional study of land use and transportation relationships to recapture the community sense while responsibly encouraging economic development.

Jonesboro Road Corridor

Expansion of the Jonesboro Road corridor includes elimination of a dangerous curve and a new bridge crossing the railroad tracks. The community is pleased with these changes and comes together to discuss the other issues they want to make sure are addressed, including preserving the historically significant Nash Farm (site of Civil War battles) and making the corridor pedestrian friendly.
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