Progress 280

Welcome to the home page of the Regional Growth Alliance and the Progress 280 Task Force. 

Progress 280 is a task force of citizens, business leaders and elected officials, chartered in late 2001 by the Regional Growth Alliance 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.

Meetings of the task force are open to the public.  The Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce provides staff support to the task force.

The Regional Growth Alliance is a three-way cooperative venture of the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham, Region 2020 and the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce. 

Chartered in 2001 by the boards of directors of the three organizations, the Growth Alliance has launched five official task forces, one of which is Progress 280.  Other task forces that have completed their assignments are the Corridor X Task Force, the Alliance for Transportation Alternatives and the Upper Cahaba Watershed Citizens Advisory Committee. 

Task forces that are still functioning include the Jefferson County Environmental Services Citizens Advisory Committee, and the Northern Beltline Task Force.  For more information on these two task forces, and for direct links to their web sites, please contact the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham at 251.8139 or by clicking here.

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:

 a) 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.

b) To increase the task force members’ and the public’s awareness and understanding of the important relationship between transportation and land use planning,

c) 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.