Plans for a new business-led transportation coalition that would prioritize and pursue solutions to the Capital Region’s traffic problems are among the top priorities the Baton Rouge Area Chamber has set for the new year.
BRAC President and CEO Adam Knapp outlined the organization’s priorities for 2015 on Monday afternoon at a meeting of the Press Club of Baton Rouge. BRAC’s top six priorities are job creation, transportation solutions, ozone and air credits, commercial property development, creating a new five-year plan, and developing a regional gubernatorial agenda.
Infrastructure improvements will be key if BRAC is to make progress on all of its priorities, and Knapp said he expects addressing transportation infrastructure shortfalls to be the most critical issue of this year’s race for the governor’s seat.
“If [candidates] want to win voters in Baton Rouge, they better have strategic solutions for traffic. They have to come with real ideas, real ideas about how in their first four years in office they can … advance traffic solutions not just for Baton Rouge, but statewide,” Knapp said.
