{"id":6449,"date":"2018-01-02T10:43:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2018-11-29T17:49:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:49:21","slug":"minnesota-dot-state-wide-freight-plan-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/02\/minnesota-dot-state-wide-freight-plan-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota DOT State Wide Freight Plan Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAFC member, the Minnesota Department of Transportation has received confirmation from the FHWA on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.state.mn.us\/planning\/freightplan\/pdf\/statewidefreightplanrevised2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated Statewide Freight System Plan<\/a> dated November, 2017.\u00a0This\u00a0plan aligns with Minnesota GO and the Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan, which establish Minnesota\u2019s overall vision for transportation. In addition, the plan meets the freight planning requirements of the federal Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, or MAP-21, transportation legislation and aligns with the provisions of the federal Fixing America\u2019s Surface Transportation Act, or FAST Act.<\/p>\n<p>The plan includes a snapshot of Minnesota\u2019s current freight system as well as a description of the state\u2019s economy, relevant trends, and current and future issues around freight. It also includes an action agenda which outlines how the system can keep pace with the significant growth in freight tonnage expected by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>One of multiple transportation plans in support of the Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan and the Minnesota GO vision for transportation in the state, this plan was developed with the help of the public-private Minnesota Freight Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The plan and a video explaining the plan development are online at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.state.mn.us\/planning\/freightplan\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MnDOT website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAFC member, the Minnesota Department of Transportation has received confirmation from the FHWA on their updated Statewide Freight System Plan dated November, 2017.\u00a0This\u00a0plan aligns with Minnesota GO and the Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan, which establish Minnesota\u2019s overall vision for transportation. In addition, the plan meets the freight planning requirements of the federal Moving Ahead for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[34,60],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mafc","category-news","tag-freight-plans","tag-minnesota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9858,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions\/9858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}