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Award Pivotal Engineering Transit Stops Inventory Improvement Project
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DESCRIPTION: Requesting Board authorization to approve a task order for Pivotal Engineering to complete a Transit Stops Inventory Improvement Program.
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RECOMMENDATION:
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Authorize the Chief Executive Officer to execute a task order with Pivotal Engineering, LLC, a Certified DBE/SLDBE, to conduct an inventory of RTA transit stops in an amount not-to-exceed $493,430 for a project duration not-to-exceed eighteen months.
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The purpose of the task order is to complete an updated, comprehensive inventory of transit stops assets, their conformance with applicable Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines, their overall condition, and upload results into a database for ongoing stops maintenance by RTA staff. The task order also includes development of a capital improvement program and funding strategy to achieve ADA compliance by 2030.
The RTA currently has 2,078 bus, streetcar, and ferry stops in its transit network. The current RTA transit stops inventory, completed in 2015, is outdated, with only piecemeal updates completed as new shelters are installed and stops removed. Following the New Links bus route network redesign in September 2022, the RTA needs to complete a comprehensive update to the inventory. The initiative will improve the quality and uniformity of the RTA's transit stop data, and it will identify the best database tool for data management and regular updating of the information.
The inventory will also support the RTA's work to comply with accessibility requirements, as per the 2017 Falls vs. RTA and City of New Orleans settlement agreement. The consent decree requires that all RTA bus stops be ADA accessible by 2030. Following the completion of the inventory and informed by the inventorying activi...
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