John Corbin noted that inventory, research, and awareness are things that should be addressed on a corridor-wide level. John Corbin noted that addressing issues at a regional level within Chicago, and separately in NW Indiana are important, but policies on these issues at a corridor-wide level cannot be set up. Dan Shamo of IDOT stated that the GCM Corridor has to have a corridor perspective now, and it is important to keep this in mind with all the subcommittees. Bill Brownell noted that maybe a list of corridor level issues should be assembled. He noted that 3 or 4 samples of successful policies that have been developed and could be shared.
Training is also important.
Bill Brownell noted that training could be tailored to each area. Dan Shamo noted that in some cases, some type of cross-jurisdictional agreements are needed. Indiana and Illinois have this problem, and he assumes the issue exists with Illinois and Wisconsin. There are some issues between local jurisdictions within the same state, but this is easier to deal with. Dan Shamo said the problem could be fixed by coming up with a clear definition of what the coalition should be doing.