Lake-Sumter MPO News
2010 News Releases
Green Symposium to Feature Green - or Orange - Transportation
Many green initiatives will be presented at the second annual Lake County Green Symposium.
One of them will be a green transportation initiative that is actually orange. The Orange
Blossom Express is a passenger rail concept that could lead to commuter rail service from Lake
County to SunRail in the Orlando metropolitan area.
July 28, 2010
Three ways to attend Green Symposium next week
There are three ways to attend the Second Annual Green Symposium on Thursday, July 29, and Friday, July 30, at Mission Inn Resort & Club.
July 23, 2010
Transportation 2035 Public Workshop #2, the Needs Plan
The historic Leesburg Opera House was the location of the second in a series of four public workshops held in the development of Transportation 2035, the long range transportation plan for Lake County and Sumter County, and hosted by the Lake~Sumter MPO.
June 11, 2010
Florida Bicycle Association, Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Awards Presented to Two Lake County Law Enforcement Officers
At the regularly scheduled meeting of the Governing Board of the Lake~Sumter Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) George Martin, Bicycle Law Training Program Director, Florida Bicycle Association, presented awards to Deputy Gabriel White and Sergeant Thomas McKane.
May 27, 2010
Lake-Sumter Metropolitan Planning Organization Hosts Transporation 2035 Workshop
The Lake~Sumter Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) hosted a public workshop
for TRANSPORTATION 2035. The room was filled by over 80 workshop attendees including
members of the MPO Governing Board and its advisory committees, Elected Officials, City and
County administrators and staff, state transportation agencies and other interested parties and local residents.
March 25, 2010