Orange County Transportation Council Sets 2024 Planning Priorities

Published on March 18, 2024

Orange County’s designated agency for managing federal transportation money aims to launch several studies to find out how to improve road safety, better coordinate the growth along the 17M corridor, and enhance the county bus system in the coming fiscal year. Formerly called Orange County Transportation Council, the agency is tasked with planning and coordinating county transportation projects funded by federal dollars. Its federally mandated annual planning activities follow a fiscal-year cycle that runs from April 1 to March 31 of the following year. County planning commissioner Alan Sorensen, whose department staffs the transportation council, said he aimed to hire a consulting firm this year to identify high-crash locations and suggest ways to cut both the number and severity of traffic accidents....

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