Welcome to the Berks County Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP), our full-length report that provides context and detail to support future transportation funding and projects. This report addresses how we can meet the expectations for the Berks County transportation system over the next 20+ years. The challenges for us to build, operate, and maintain a system that meets the needs of the county have never been greater. To meet these challenges, this plan presents quality information in understandable terms, and is flexible enough to adapt to a constantly changing landscape of needs and resources. We have endeavored to make this a plan for the people of Berks County. It is part of our effort to bring transparency to the tough decisions we make. The LRTP discusses socioeconomic trends affecting travel, the current state of the county transportation network and characterizes transportation needs and multimodal transportation strategies to address these needs. The plan must be reviewed and updated every four years. RATS has considered all locally available modes of transportation in compiling this plan, including the existing and future highway system, railroads, air travel, public transit, bicycle and pedestrian travel, and methods for improving intermodal connections for freight. Elements of the plan include an inventory of the county’s transportation system, a listing of current and future problems that will need to be addressed, and a discussion of strategies to alleviate or eliminate these problems and achieve the stated goals and objectives by the year 2040.

Due to the number of maps/tables/charts used for visualization, some file sizes are extremely large (between 1 and 19 MB):

Entire Plan (41 MB!)