The Downtown Transit Station Steering Committee will next pick some specific sites to suggest for a station location as the Lawrence City Commission approved their recommended site boundaries Tuesday evening.
Adam Weigel, transit and parking manager, presented to commissioners during their meeting about updates in the planning process for a transit station in downtown Lawrence.
The steering committee has been meeting for the past several months, and the first part of their process has been to determine the boundaries of the area to be considered for station site selection.
Committee members recommended boundaries of Sixth Street to the north, Tennessee Street to the west, approximately South Park to the south and Rhode Island Street to the east.
Commissioners agreed that they didn’t want boundary to extend as far east as the Amtrak station at Seventh and New Jersey streets, and they preferred to keep the boundary north of 11th Street.
With the Lawrence City Commission’s approval of the boundaries, the steering committee will proceed to develop site selection criteria and, later, three to five sites for concept development. See an interactive map of the proposed boundaries at this link.
The goal is for construction on the chosen site to begin in 2025.
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