Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution expresses support for Metro Transit's Areas of Persistent Poverty grant application to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for planning work for Madison’s BRT Green Line, bringing a much higher quality of transit service to low income neighborhoods on Madison’s north and south sides. A separate resolution accepting the grant award and amending the 2022 capital budget to move the project timeline up will be submitted at a later date should the City be awarded the grant funding from the FTA.
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Supporting Madison Metro's Areas of Persistent Poverty Grant Application to Federal Transit Administration for planning work for Madison’s BRT Green Line, bringing a much higher quality of transit service to low income neighborhoods on Madison’s north and south sides.
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison seeks to expand Transit to meet the growing transportation needs of the City, and;
WHEREAS, that the Imagine Madison Comprehensive Plan Land Use and Transportation Strategy 1 recommends improving transit service, especially peripheral employment and planning areas, and Strategy 2 recommends implementing Bus Rapid Transit, and;
WHEREAS, that the 2013 to 2017 Transit Development Plan, prepared by the Madison Area Transportation Planning Board and adopted by the City of Madison, Recommendation 13 advocates for transit supportive roadway features, Recommendation 18 advocates for Bus Rapid Transit, and Recommendation 23 advocates for diversifying Metro’s fleet with 60-foot buses, and;
WHEREAS, the Federal Transit Administration has a competitive funding program, Areas of Persistent Poverty Program that currently has $16,259,614 in funding for FY 2021, which will be awarded competitively for planning, engineering, or development of technical or financing plans for projects that assist areas of persistent poverty.
WHEREAS, BRT Planning to improve transit service to Census Tracts: 11.01, 12, 14.01, 14.02, 23.01, 24.02, 25 on the north...
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