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FY21 RAISE Grant - Planning
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DESCRIPTION: Grant application for federal funds to plan and design safe, reliable, and fast transit corridors
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RECOMMENDATION:
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Authorize the Chief Executive Officer to seek federal funds in the amount not-to-exceed $2,400,000.00, to study, identify and design improvements to critical transit corridors to reduce high-incident crashes and unreliability. The local match is not-to-exceed $600,000.00 and the total project amount will be a maximum of $3,000,000.00.
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ISSUE/BACKGROUND:
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As identified RTA's 2017 Strategic Mobility Plan, "Access to Destinations" and "Reliability" are the most important values for all rider types. In addition, fast and frequent service is the most important strategy desired by all riders. The start of that work was New Links, adopted in March 2021 by RTA Board of Commissioners with implementation of the bus network redesign underway.
While New Links recommendations will go a long way to improve connectivity and access, the project specifically designed those recommendations assuming no change in existing transit operating conditions and stopped short of improvements to roadways, boarding's, turning conflicts and other physical elements affecting safety, capacity, spend and reliability. That work is a part of a series of actions in the SMP (BR9-12) and is the primer for development of High Capacity Corridors (action item CO1) that are frequent and fast. Increasing reliability and speed has also been shown in many case studies to improve the on-time performance and ridership.
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DISCUSSION:
The RTA staff is requesting $2.4 million in federal funding for planning and design of a program of improvements for transit corridors with the goal of improving safety, reliability, capacity, and speed of the system in high-value/high-need corridors. The proposa...
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