If you live in Gwinnett County, you soon may be asked to give your opinion on transportation.
The Great Exchange, as it’s called, encourages residents to respond to a survey via text message during the week of Aug. 24 with answers to eight questions including areas they would like to get to easier and the one transportation improvement they would like to see the most.
“We envision folks to possibly look at an intersection improvement all the way to possibly saying ‘we need more transit’,” says Chuck Warbington, executive director of the Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District.
Both the Gwinnett Village CID and Gwinnett Place CID are funding the $60,000 survey, a third of which covers the texting fees.
The initiative kicked off Monday night with a leadership meeting at the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce bringing together the likes of the Tea Party, the Democrat and Republican Parties, the Sierra Club, and the NAACP.
Warbington is asking each of the groups to go out into their communities and have high-level conversations about transportation in order to garner as much response as possible. Those they speak to will then be given a number to text to respond to the survey.
“We’re trying to engage as many folks in Gwinnett County just to have a high level conversation about what Gwinnett County needs for our future,” he tells WSB’s Sandra Parrish.
In the end, Warbington hopes to develop 30-50 initiatives through the process and make the results available to local and county leaders alike.
Funding for the projects will not be addressed at this point.
“Those discussions will come later, but we need to hear where people want to go first, and then we can determine how things can be funded and what those solutions are,” he says
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