Welcome and the Progress 280 Task Force.
Progress 280 is a task force of citizens, business leaders and elected officials, chartered in late 2001 to seek solutions to the problems caused by traffic congestion on US 280. The task force is composed of eight citizens, appointed by Region 2020; eight business leaders, appointed by the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce; and eight elected officials, representing the six municipal jurisdictions and two counties through which the 11.5-mile corridor runs.
You may use this site to find a list of the current appointed members of the progress 280 Task Force, to review the minutes of the organization since its founding in 2001, and to read other documents related to the work of the task force.
Progress 280 Task Force
Statement of Purpose
The purposes for which the task force is organized are:
- To improve the flow of
traffic on US 280 by reducing vehicular congestion. The
task force will accomplish this by:
- Examining transportation policy relative to the corridor and encouraging governmental actions that promote the task force’s goals.
- Advocating funding from local, state and federal sources to accomplish the stated goals.
- Endorsing a study by the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham that will evaluate the major intersections in the corridor and recommend improvements for the corridor as a whole.
- Encouraging the use of alternative modes and routes of transportation.
- To increase the task force members’ and the public’s awareness and understanding of the important relationship between transportation and land use planning
- To be an advocate with local governments, citizens and businesses for principles of sustainable growth along the US 280 corridor, but to avoid being drawn into support or opposition on specific development projects, and/or speaking publicly on individual projects.