Governors Drive traffic: Give your input at this open house

Traffic in Huntsville has been a growing and consistent concern for residents for years now—especially with the rapid growth in population experience by the Rocket City over the last decade—and Governors Drive is usually at the forefront of those concerns.

Now is your chance to voice those concerns and give input to a new study.

The City of Huntsville will hold an open house on Tuesday, Sept. 29, for the community to provide insight and feedback as part of a corridor traffic safety study on Governors Drive. The event will be from 4-8PM at the Gathering Place in First Baptist Church, 600 Governors Dr. SW.

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More on this Governors Drive traffic study

At the open house, members of the Huntsville Planning Department and Alta Planning + Design will be available to discuss ideas and hear from residents.

The corridor study area covers an 8.85-mile stretch from 14th Street on the west end to Caldwell Lane in the Big Cove area. The medical district, anchored by Huntsville Hospital, has been a focus of the study due to heavy pedestrian traffic.

The study will serve as a “strategic roadmap” to identify and address traffic safety challenges. By combining data analysis with community input, the plan aims to develop targeted solutions to create safer streets for people who drive, walk, bike and use Huntsville Transit. 

“We’ve been busy over the last several months and we are looking forward to the open house to have our largest community engagement in the study. With the medical district being a focal point of the study, we are eager to get input from professionals who work at Huntsville Hospital and surrounding facilities on making the district as safe as possible.”

_{Dennis Madsen, manager of Long-Range Planning for the City of Huntsville}

Huntsville Transit will offer free rides to and from the meeting. There are transit stops within one-quarter mile of First Baptist Church. Riders should tell the operator they are attending the Safety Study Open House. The facility is ADA accessible.

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