Goals and Objectives
Advancing East Lancaster’s goal is to develop a plan to increase accessibility and create opportunities for economic development.
Advancing East Lancaster’s project goal includes the following six aspects:
Enhancing economic development and ridership
Facilitate multimodal connectivity and accessibility
Increase access to transit hubs for pedestrian and bicycle traffic
Enable mixed-use development
Identify infrastructure needs associated with the eligible project
Include private sector participation
The objectives of this plan include:
Guiding growth and economic development in the corridor
Enabling residents, commuters, businesses, and students to benefit from improved accessibility to downtown and the East Lancaster corridor
Create opportunities to repurpose and redevelop underutilized land currently serving single-occupancy vehicles on a 6-lane highway that is wider than necessary for the current traffic volumes