"To view transportation corridors as catalysts for strengthening community life necessitates.... a more holistic approach, where highway engineers, transit operators, traffic engineers, residents, merchants, property owners, city agencies, planner, architects, an developers as well as community and faith-based organizations, demonstrate that through partnerships they can bring together the traditional safety and mobility goals of transportation agencies and the livability goals of communities."
"While collaborative projects may take longer to plan, approvals are streamlined because the goals of the project are clearer, which facilitates permitting and inspection processes, and communities see the benefit to their quality of life and can articulate their support for the project."
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