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Residents Offer Feedback to RCTC’s #RebootMyCommute Program

RCTC — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:45:32 +0000

The Point: Thank you, Riverside County residents, for your engagement and input! We heard you loud and clear.

Driving around Riverside County is challenging. The road to fixing these challenges is going to be bumpy. However, with your input and engagement, together we will address these challenges.

This past spring, the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) launched #RebootMyCommute, a public engagement program for us to hear from you, the residents of Riverside County. You gave feedback about transportation pitfalls and the projects and programs that are important to you. The feedback came via emails, social media, telephone town-hall meetings, community event booths, and more, for a 90-day period.

RCTC received nearly 1,000 emails from residents, engaged with close to 4,000 people via social media, spoke to nearly 600 community members at events across Riverside County, and held two telephone town-hall meetings, which attracted more than 7,500 participants. The Commission’s videos drew 800,000+ views on YouTube and nearly 600,000 views on Facebook.

You can read exactly what you and your neighbors said here. A summary of all of the feedback we received is here.

Comments focused on highways and traffic, public transit, local streets, the economy and jobs, express lanes, active transportation and safety. Here are a few examples of what you said:

“I suggest we stop building homes and focus on building quality hospitals and healthcare systems that our region desperately needs. I would also like to see us generate more jobs and keep the pay competitive so that our residents don’t commute to OC or LA counties. We should live, play and work in our County.”
“Please fix traffic congestion on the 15 freeway in Temecula. I drive all over SoCal and it HAS to be one the worst spots around.”
“Metrolink connecting Hemet/San Jacinto area to Perris. Metrolink to/from Hemet San Jacinto to Palm Springs. Increase frequency of bus routes in Hemet/San Jacinto/Moreno Valley areas. More NON-STOP or minimal stop commuter buses to and from Hemet/San Jacinto. Freeway expansions into Hemet. More lanes on Ramona Expressway and Gilman Springs Road.”
“What about a more efficient commute of some kind whether bus or train added from Coachella Valley to certain pockets throughout Riverside?”

Your hopes for a better Riverside County is helping RCTC’s Commissioners create a plan of action. RCTC is using the comments received to develop a countywide traffic relief plan for the public to consider in early 2020. RCTC will continue to provide many opportunities for you to engage so that the plan will meet the needs of residents across Riverside County.

Thank you again for participating in #RebootMyCommute and please stay engaged with RCTC!

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RCTC Continues to Seek Feedback for Improving Transportation

RCTC — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:15:06 +0000

The Point: Send us your #RebootMyCommute ideas

Tired of traffic? Who isn’t? RCTC is continuing to ask Riverside County residents for innovative ways to improve transportation and mobility through the #RebootMyCommute initiative.

Since the initiative launched on March 6, RCTC has received hundreds of comments and is seeking even more feedback about highways, streets, trains, buses, trails, and creative ways to reduce traffic congestion. Like you, RCTC is frustrated by traffic and is listening.

To provide feedback, visit RebootMyCommute.org, text “RCTC” to 55222, tag @TheRCTC and use #RebootMyCommute in social media posts, or call 800-450-3650. Comments, photos, and videos all are welcome. Please respond by June 6.

“The best solutions come from the ground up,” said Chuck Washington, RCTC chair and Riverside County supervisor.

“We need to hear from the people whose lives depend on our transportation system every day so we can create a vision and act, together.”

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RCTC Seeks Input from Residents, Businesses to Address Transportation Challenges

RCTC — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:10:04 +0000

The Point: #RebootMyCommute campaign offers tools to open dialogue countywide

No one likes sitting in traffic, being late to work, or hitting a big pothole on the way to the grocery store. We get that and are frustrated too. RCTC is seeking transportation solutions by putting residents and businesses behind the wheel to explain their most pressing mobility needs.

“The best solutions come from the ground up,” said Chuck Washington, RCTC chair and Riverside County supervisor. “We need to hear from the people whose lives depend on our transportation system every day so we can create a vision and act, together.”

To start the change, RCTC has created #RebootMyCommute, a public engagement campaign that urges feedback from every corner of 7,300-square-mile Riverside County. This feedback will help update our transportation roadmap, which is vital to economic growth, public safety, and quality of life.

Riverside County currently faces a $12.6 billion gap between its transportation needs and expected funding during the next 20 years. RCTC is conducting a review of the long-term transportation plan that Riverside County voters approved in 2002 and will be adopting a new 10-year plan for highway and transit priorities this summer.

As part of this review and priority-setting effort, the Commission will determine if an additional countywide sales tax to improve transportation would be appropriate.

“We need to change the conversation about transportation,” said Anne Mayer, executive director of RCTC. “The status quo is not sustainable. We will need to think outside the familiar white and yellow lines. All ideas are welcome,” she said.

Please submit your comments, photos and videos now through June 2019 and participate via the following tools:

Visit RebootMyCommute.org

Tag @TheRCTC and use #RebootMyCommute on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

Call 800-450-3650

Text “RCTC” to 55222

Stop by booths at various community events across Riverside County

Take part in Telephone Town Hall meetings:

– Western Riverside County: March 19 at 6:30 p.m. Call (855) 756-7520 Ext. 46607#

– Eastern Riverside County: March 20 at 6:30 p.m Call (855) 756-7520 Ext. 46608#

Learn More:

– Video

– RMC brochure – English/Spanish

– RMC postcard – English/Spanish

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