After a year and a half, a coalition of local economic development groups and transportation officials has wrapped up an in-depth study of how the area’s overall transportation system impacts the region’s economic growth.
Conceived by former Virginia Del. Shannon Valentine, the Lynchburg representative on the Commonwealth Transportation Board, the first-of-its-kind study aimed to identify ways to make all of the different kinds of transportation in the region work better together to help business grow.
“Transportation is important, and there is so much energy taking place in our commonwealth around creating economic opportunity, and the fact that we have a regional study that’s actually tying economic impact with transportation decisions is an important piece of a much bigger picture,” Valentine said Thursday morning at a Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance breakfast event.
