Murfreesboro Traffic Director Ram Balachandran discuss the city’s 2040 Major Thoroughfare Plan at Locally Owned Murfreesboro’s first quarter meeting.

The meeting will be held at 8 a.m. Thursday, Feb 22 at Cultivate Coworking. It will be free for LOM members and $10 for future members. Breakfast will be provided by LOM member Simply Pure Sweets.

Locally Owned Murfreesboro held a panel discussion with city department heads in September 2017 and the conversation was dominated by questions about traffic.

“We had so many questions about how the city is handling traffic and what its plans are, we decided to invite Mr. Balachandran to our February meeting,” said Gretchen Bilbro, president of Locally Owned Murfreesboro.

Balachandran will hit the main projects in the 2040 Major Thoroughfare Plan, which was adopted in the fall of 2017 and will guide improvements to the city’s roadways.

The main goals of the flexible plan are to reduce congestion, trip lengths and travel time by providing more direct connections between northeast, southwest and central Murfreesboro; create more capacity from southeast and northwest; and enhance roadway network connectivity.

Some of the projects outlined in the plan include improvements to New Salem Highway, Leanna Swamp Road and Manchester Pike, just to name a few.

If you have any burning questions about traffic in your neighborhood or about your daily drives around town, Balachandran will also be available for a mediated Q&A after his presentation.

RSVP for the meeting on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/1721175287933685/.

About Locally Owned Murfreesboro

An affiliate of the American Independent Business Alliance, Locally Owned Murfreesboro was formed in 2016.

The nonprofit is an organization of independent local business owners dedicated to promoting the benefits supporting independent businesses to the community and building a stronger local economy by joining together in marketing, government advocacy and networking.

Because Murfreesboro Matters.