Location

Suburban Chicago, IL

Client

Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

Services

  • Data Collection

  • Multimodal Planning

  • Transportation Planning

  • Outreach

Northwest municipal conference multimodal plan

 
Northwest Chicago suburbs multimodal transportation plan priority corridors

As part of its local technical assistance program, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning retained Sam Schwartz to work with the Northwest Municipal Conference (NWMC) and its member communities to create the Conference’s first Multimodal Transportation Plan. NWMC consists of an incredibly diverse group of 44 member municipalities and townships spanning over 300 square miles and including more than 1.3 million people.

While many of the communities within the NWMC have created inspiring strategies and implemented transformative projects related to walking, biking, and access to transit, developing a regional plan will deepen collaboration across municipal boundaries and provide shared tools for transportation planning. This will help to create a more connected, equitable, and healthy region. Rooted in this collaborative, regional approach, the plan development process is utilizing detailed data collection and robust multimedia and in-person community outreach to identify priority bicycle corridors, trail connections, key gaps in sidewalks, and barriers to transit access.