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What’s New

2012 Annual Report now available

2012 Annual Report now available

April 25th, 2013

2012 was more than AMATS’ 50th Anniversary as a metropolitan planning organization. It was a year when the agency addressed a host of wide-ranging issues and marked significant achievements.

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PARTA Planning Study Community Sessions

PARTA Planning Study Community Sessions

April 15th, 2013

PARTA is conducting a major planning study in order to set their agenda for the next ten years. The public is invited and encouraged to attend. Below is the schedule. Meetings will run from 6 to 8pm. April 23rd – Streetsboro City Hall April 30th – Garrettsville Village Hall May 7th – Mantua Park Lodge […]

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Grab your thinking caps and bike gear!

Grab your thinking caps and bike gear!

April 5th, 2013

We’re hosting our first Bike-N-Brainstorm ride for 2013 in Kent on Saturday, April 20 – just in time for the city’s Seventh Annual Who’s Your Mama? Earth Day and Environmental Film Festival!

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Transportation Outlook and TIP open for comment

Transportation Outlook and TIP open for comment

April 2nd, 2013

AMATS invites you to participate in the development of two items key to the future of the Greater Akron area: Transportation Outlook 2035 and the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for Fiscal Years 2014 through 2017.

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Our Regional Transportation Future

Our Regional Transportation Future

March 20th, 2013

What is our transportation future in Greater Akron?  In Ohio?  In all likelihood, the next twenty years are going to be very different from the preceding twenty years.  We are going to have to learn to adapt to changing demographic conditions and fiscal realities, as our region and state evolve.  Here in a region with […]

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2013 begins with new AMATS leadership

2013 begins with new AMATS leadership

January 2nd, 2013

Connie Krauss, the director of the Summit County Department of Community and Economic Development, will be the 2013 chairwoman of the Policy Committee of the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study (AMATS).

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Connecting Communities Planning Grant Applications Available Now!

Connecting Communities Planning Grant Applications Available Now!

November 30th, 2012

Click here for the pdf of the application, or visit our planning grant page for more information. Email, mail, or hand deliver your application by the Tuesday, January 15, 2013 deadline. Please contact Heather Davis Reidl at hreidl@akronohio.gov or 330-375-2436 with any questions.

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Celebrating 50 years at the 2012 Annual Meeting

Celebrating 50 years at the 2012 Annual Meeting

November 9th, 2012

AMATS celebrated its 50th anniversary as a metropolitan planning organization during a successful mid-October Annual Meeting.

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Connecting Communities Planning Grant NOFA

Connecting Communities Planning Grant NOFA

November 1st, 2012

AMATS begins its third round of funding today for the Connecting Communities Planning Grant Program.

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Congestion is declining, but so is project funding

Congestion is declining, but so is project funding

September 27th, 2012

A sluggish economy, rising gas prices and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on transportation projects over the past decade may explain why traffic congestion in the Greater Akron area has improved in the last several years.

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