GRTA
BOARD REVISES MISSION, DEFINES ROLES
Principles
for Transportation Investments, Land Use Outlined
Atlanta
- "It is the mission of the Georgia Regional Transportation
Authority/Governor's Development Council to improve
Georgia
's mobility, air quality and land use practices."
"I applaud the GRTA
Board of Directors for so clearly and simply defining the authority's
mission," said Governor Sonny Perdue. "Combined with the roles
and principles the board defined at their retreat last month, they have
set GRTA on a clear track toward reducing traffic congestion and improving
air quality in our region and state."
In addition to adopting the revised mission statement, the GRTA board set
out a set of guiding principles and roles for the authority, with specific
focus on transportation investments and land use. Chief among those roles
and principles are the commitment to operate as an open, accountable,
efficient and effective public agency, that the authority will base
decisions on fact-based analysis that provides the greatest public benefit
for the resources invested, and that GRTA will advocate and implement a
transportation system that is multi-modal, seamless, and accessible to
all.
"Our dedication to serving
Georgia
's needs is clear," said Walter M. Deriso, Jr., Chairman of the GRTA
Board of Directors. "We know there is no single answer to improving
mobility, air quality and land use. It's not just more roads, or just more
transit, or just better land use. It's a combination of all of these
things. Our work last month, and our action today, renews GRTA's
commitment to working together with our partners in the region to develop
and implement the comprehensive programs necessary to ensure that we are
putting in place the practices and systems that will solve our congestion
problems and improve our air quality."
The revised mission statement and list of roles and principles is
attached to this release. It will also be posted to the GRTA website at
www.grta.org.
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