From the BCCT.The story mentions the $25,000 portion of the grant that Morrisville needs to come up with. I received an email that reported a Borough Council Member has previously applied for another transportation-oriented grant of approx. $42,000. At this point in time, there's no information available that grant was approved or not.
This is wonderful news! I have no idea who the council member is, but the idea that we could potentially already have most of the pieces in place to move this study along is great. A portion of the grant could be used to cover most of the $25,000 that Morrisville needs to provide.
I've called the borough council a do-nothing group intent on allow Morrisville to stagnate and fail. Here's a sign that at least one forward thinking council member is out there.
Planner to discuss transit ideas for borough
By: DANNY ADLER
SEPTA has no long-term plans to create a stop in Morrisville.
A professional planner will meet with Morrisville's economic development corporation this week about a possible study aimed at creating a transit-oriented borough.
The vision is to use mass transit and the borough's walkability as a catalyst for redevelopment.
Brian Miller, of the Miller Design Group in Newtown Township, will meet with the corporation at 7 p.m. Thursday at borough hall, 35 Union St. The meeting is open to the public.
Proponents say a new train station along SEPTA's R7 rail line is vital to the "transit revitalization investment district." Morrisville had a train station that was discontinued in the 1960s.
SEPTA spokesman Felipe Suarez said the transportation authority has no long-term plans to create a stop in Morrisville.
A Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development grant is available to help pay for the study. The DCED could give up to $75,000, with a local match of up to $25,000.
Steve Amend, chairman of the borough economic development corporation, said a transit-oriented plan would attract developers to Morrisville, which for years has sought to revitalize.
Miller has created plans for other Lower Bucks towns.
He presented Penndel's Renaissance Plan in September 2007. It called for a hotel, supermarket, drugstore, office space, amphitheater, art studios, apartments and acres of open space.
The new Croydon plan for Bristol Township, presented in November 2007, called for office parks, outdoor theaters, a 17-acre environmental center and a multi-story transit center, eight marinas, a skate park and hundreds of acres of existing homes cleared for open space.
Penndel and Bristol Township officials haven't taken concrete steps to implement the plans.
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Ah yes, but what if that forward-thinking councilperson wasn't so forward-thinking after all, and perhaps doesn't want anything competing for grant dollars with their pet project, and perhaps tries to block any movement on this TRID idea, because it wasn't THEIR idea?
Maybe we'll all find out more at tomorrow's TRID meeting. Yes, that's right, the TRID meeting is a mere 3 days after the day before yesterday.
"Maybe we'll all find out more at tomorrow's TRID meeting. Yes, that's right, the TRID meeting is a mere 3 days after the day before yesterday."
Jon, what's all this talk about TRID's meeting tomorrow... what matters is TRID *today*. Except, that is, when today becomes yesterday and, of course, today is yesterday's tomorrow. And when THAT happens it won't be tomorrow at all. It will in fact be today. And that's what really matters.
How's this for a compromise - don't STOP thinkin' about tomorrow? It has "STOP" in it, that should appeal to the landed gentry!
Tomorrow never knows...
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