METROPOLITAN PLANNING BRIEFING
METROPOLITAN PLANNING BRIEFING February 2019 Greetings. This is your redesigned update from the MPO, part of ongoing efforts to improve communications and showcase the value that the MPO brings to […]
Public asked to help decide which local transportation projects to fund Residents of Greater Des Moines are invited to share their opinions on which local transportation projects they would like […]
Last year, the MPO tested a new initiative, the Iowa Data Bike. This electric bicycle was equipped with tools to measure pavement roughness, take georeferenced photos of trail conditions, and […]
MPO staff has developed a report on pavement conditions for the MPO planning area. The report is a follow-up to performance goal setting for Mobilizing Tomorrow. MPO staff examined 2017 […]
In the Greater Des Moines metropolitan area, 34 percent of the population lives in a census track identified as an Environmental Justice Area. These are places with higher-than-regional-average concentrations of […]
Greater Des Moines Water Trails will annually pour tens of millions of dollars into the regional economy, a new analysis shows. Among the findings of the Greater Des Moines Water […]
Des Moines Transload Facility receives $11.2 million BUILD grant The U.S. Department of Transportation yesterday announced an $11.2 million BUILD Transportation Grant for the Des Moines Transload Facility. A transload […]
Speaker Rue Mapp: “Where Black People and Nature Meet” Rue Mapp recalls hearing police helicopters outside her office in downtown Oakland, Calif., when racial tensions broke out in the streets […]
James Chung: “Next Frontiers for a Standout City” James Chung didn’t find Greater Des Moines – Greater Des Moines found him. Chung is the president of Reach Advisors, a strategy, […]
Investigative journalist and Rolling Stone contributor Jeff Goodell, author of “The Waters Will Rise: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Reshaping of the Civilized World,” spoke in Des Moines July […]