TRAC Update
Transportation & Redevelopment Action Committee

March 24, 2010

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Does Main Street need to heed the lessons of the mall?

"For decades, the business of malls has driven meticulous study of consumer behaviors. Literally reams and reams of data exist, telling savvy retailers everything from how to keep shoppers shopping to why they walk into one store and not another to which way they'll turn once they get in the door."

Read this blog post on how efforts to create a thriving downtown may hinder creation of a more viable economic environment.

Transportation Events & Meetings

Public Hearing on Villages of Lakewood Ranch South
6:30 pm Thursday, April 8
Sarasota County Administration Center, County Commission chambers
1660 Ringling Blvd, Sarasota

Master Plan Charette - Fruitville & I-75
All day, April 12 - April 16
BOB Building
1001 Sarasota Center Blvd

Transportation in the News

• Google maps now incorporates biking directions.
• Questions from Pinellas on the Tampa-Orlando high speed rail line.
• Sarasota Planning Commission postpones Public Hearing on the Villages of Lakewood Ranch South.
• What's causing Ringling Bridge traffic jams?

Manatee-Sarasota County bus system merger talks come to an end.


TRAC is a committee of the Summit for Environmental Action (SEA).
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