Slide 1 - National League of Cities

NLC – Transportation

Infrastructure Services Committee

06/03/11

AGENDA

 Transportation Outlook 2040

 Current Implementation Activities

 TIGER

 Alternatives Analyses

 Creating Sustainable Places

Kansas City region

PLANNING PROCESS









Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009- Winter 2009/2010 Spring 2010

Why is this Plan Important?

 Defines direction for integrated long-

term transportation strategy

 Integrates local plans and priorities in

establishing direction

 Provides policy guidance and input for

how we move forward and for how we

track progress over time

2040 PLAN ELEMENTS



2040 POLICY

FRAMEWORK









PERFORMANCE

2040 PROJECTS

MEASUREMENTS

2040 POLICY

FRAMEWORK

2040 POLICY

VISION







“Greater Kansas City is

a sustainable region

that increases the

vitality of our society,

economy, and

PHOTO BY KENNETH WALKER

environment for

current residents and

future generations.”

2040 POLICY

GOALS



 System Performance  Place-making*

 System Condition  Healthy Living*

 Safety and Security  Climate Change and

Energy Use*

 Vital Economy  Environment*

 Accessibility



* New Plan Goals

2040 PLAN

STRATEGIES

Maximize use of existing

infrastructure

 Continue to focus on system preservation and

maintenance of our transportation systems as

the region’s top transportation priority.

 Leverage technology, communications and

management strategies to maximize the

capacities of our existing transportation systems.

 Use strategic capacity and bottleneck

improvements where appropriate to address

reoccurring congestion and system delay.

2040 PLAN

STRATEGIES



Improve Connectivity and

Access

 Fill existing gaps in transportation

networks and systems.

 Coordinate transportation investments

and system expansions to maximize

efficiencies and effectiveness.

 Support expanded inter-city connectivity

via improved roadway, bus, and

passenger/ high-speed rail services.

2040 PLAN

STRATEGIES

Promote non-motorized

transportation options

 Require transportation investments

consider and include accommodations

for all appropriate users, including

bicycle, pedestrian and transit users.

 Work with MARC transportation

committees and local stakeholders to

create a policy for multimodal design

considerations to support MARC’s

planning and programming processes.

2040 PLAN

STRATEGIES



Preserve, Enhance, and

Expand regional transit and

paratransit services.

 Work with transit providers,

local governments, and state

departments of transportation

to implement and fund the

Smart Moves Regional Transit

Vision.

2040 PLAN

STRATEGIES

Integrate land use and

transportation planning

 Continue to work with local governments to

integrate locally adopted plans into

transportation planning processes.

 Utilize capacity and system improvements

where appropriate to foster and efficiently

serve growth and development.

 Develop a Livable Communities strategy that

facilitates land use and transportation

integration.

2040 PLAN

STRATEGIES



Enhance, preserve and connect

high‐quality natural resources

 Formalize collaborative planning process (Linking

Environmental and Transportation Planning

Advisory Committee and Action Plan).

 Develop a regional mitigation strategy to focus

mitigation investment towards high priority

natural resources and the implementation of

MetroGreen®.

 Develop environmental best practices, and

model policies for transportation‐related

construction, operation, and maintenance

functions.

2040

PROJECTS

2040 PROJECTS

Financial Constraint

% of related

Project Category Total Revenues % of Total O&M revenues

Roadway $ 16,855,924,542 78% $ 8,815,291,978 52%

Transit $ 4,312,460,458 20% $ 3,796,067,798 88%

Bike/Ped $ 309,580,000 1%

Totals $ 21,477,965,000 100% $ 12,611,359,776 59%



System

Enhancement

and Expansion

41% Operations

and

What can we reasonably Maintenance

59%

expect to afford?

2040 PROJECTS

Financial Constraint

Transportation Outlook 2040

DRAFT Financial Constraints

millions of dollars

Financial

Project Category Capacity Project Costs Difference % Afforded



Roadway $8,041 $14,549 ($6,508) 55%



Kansas $4,186 $5,997 ($1,811) 70%



Missouri $3,855 $8,552 ($4,697) 45%



Transit $516 $3,704 ($3,187) 14%



Bike/Ped $310 $411 ($102) 75%



Total $8,867 $18,664 ($9,797) 48%

Roadway

Projects

Transit

Projects

Bike/Pedestrian

Projects

PERFORMANCE

MEASURING

PROGRESS

Goal Factor Measure

- Revenue Service Hours

Level of Transit Service

- Ridership

Accessibility

Environmental Justice - Percent of transportation investments in EJ tracts

- Combined transportation and housing costs as a %

Economic Vitality Transportation Costs

of median income

Vehicle Miles Traveled

- System wide daily VMT/CO2 Emissions

Climate Change/ / CO2

Energy Use

Vehicle Occupancy - Vehicle occupancy rate



Environment MetroGreen Network - Percent/Miles of MetroGreen Network Completed



Place Making Multi-Modal Options - Modal Balance (mode-share)



Ozone - Ozone Levels

Public Health

Physical Health - Obesity Rate



Crash Fatality and

Safety and Security Injury Rate

- Annual crash fatalities and disabling injuries



Bridge & Pavement - Pavement Condition

System Condition Condition - Bridge Condition

- Observed speed vs. posted speed on the CMS

Level of Service

Network

Congestion - Percent of CMS Network Congested

System Performance

Travel Time - Average Commute Time



On-Time Performance - On-Time Performance of Transit System

Congested Travel as a Percent of Vehicle Miles

Traveled

60%



50%

System Performance 40%



30%



20%



10%



0%









Kansas City Avg of Large Urban Areas Population 1-3 Million









System Performance

Annual Report -- 2011

TIGER

TIGER PROGRAM



 Kansas City Regional TIGER Application Submitted in Sept. 2009



 $1.5b National Discretionary Grant Program embedded in ARRA



 Program focus on multimodal transportation investments that

generate Economic Recovery and Job Creation.



 Extremely Competitive Program

 Over 1400 applications submitted

 Only 51 grants awarded nationally

 Only 3% of requested funds where awarded

TIGER APPLICATION

Federal Funds Requested: ~$88.8 Million

Access to Opportunity -$66.5M

 Green Impact Zone Improvements

 Regional Transit Corridors

 Bicycle and Pedestrian

Freight Mobility -$2.7M

 Terminal Railroad

 Front Street Interchange

USDOT TIGER AWARD



$50 Million TIGER Funds:

 Green Impact Zone - $26.2 M

 Regional Transit Corridors- $22.251 M

GREEN IMPACT ZONE



TIGER Award $26.2 M:

 Sidewalks/Streetscape/Transit

 Street Rehabilitation

 Traffic Signal Upgrades

 Traffic Signal Interconnects

 Troost Bridge

REGIONAL TRANSIT

CORRIDORS

TIGER Award $22.251 M:

 State Ave. Bus Rapid Transit

 Metcalf / Shawnee Mission Parkway BRT

 North Oak

 Downtown KC to Eastern Jackson County

 US24/Independence Ave./Truman Rd.

 Linwood/US40

TRANSIT CORRIDORS



State Ave. Corridor (ATA & Wyandotte County)

 2 Transit Centers

 Transit Station Improvements

 $10.3 Million Awarded. Transit Center - 47th & State Ave.









Transit Center KCK - 7th & Minnesota

TRANSIT CORRIDORS





Metcalf/Shawnee Mission Pkwy. (Johnson Co.)

 New Transit Center in downtown Mission

 Park and Ride Improvements

 Pedestrian and Stop Improvements

 $10.5 Million Awarded.

TRANSIT CORRIDORS



North Oak Corridor

 Downtown KCMO to Missouri Route 152

 $600,000 TIGER Funds.





Downtown KCMO to Eastern Jackson Co.

 Linwood / Highway 40 to Blue Ridge Crossing

 US 24, Independence Ave., Truman Rd.

 $800,000 TIGER Funds.

IMPLEMENTATION TEAMS



 Green Impact Zone Team (KCMO, Green Impact Zone

Staff, MARC, KCATA)

 Transit Corridor Teams

 State Ave. (UG and ATA Partnership)

 Shawnee Mission/Metcalf (JCT, OP, Mission)

 North Oak

 ATA, KCMO, NKC, Gladstone, Clay Co., MoDOT

 Downtown KCMO to Eastern Jackson Co.

 ATA, KCMO, MoDOT, and Independence

KANSAS CITY

REGIONAL TIGER

APPLICATION

Project Oversight and

Management Structure

CURRENT ACTIVITIES







 Formalized MARC agreement with USDOT

 Formalized agreements with Project Partners

 Design Initiated: State Avenue, Metcalf, N. Oak

 Green Impact Zone lettings May 2011

 Construction through early 2012

Alternatives

Analyses

ALTERNATIVES

ANALYSES

• Downtown

Distribution

• Commuter

Corridors

DOWNTOWN CORRIDOR

 The Downtown Corridor Alternatives Analysis will

evaluate alternatives for a transit circulator system

connecting Crown Center and Union Station with the

Crossroads District, downtown Kansas City, and the

River Market area — representing the region's most

travelled and densely populated corridor.

JACKSON COUNTY CORRIDORS

 The Jackson County Commuter Corridors Alternatives

Analysis will evaluate commuter transit service options

in the Interstate 70 and Rock Island (Missouri Route

350) corridors.

 The corridors run through the cities of Independence,

Blue Springs, Grain Valley, Oak Grove, Odessa,

Raytown, Lee's Summit, Greenwood and Pleasant Hill.

STREETCARS FOR DOWNTOWN

KANSAS CITY?

PURPOSE AND GOALS

 Bring Kansas City closer to realizing a potential starter

line for an expanded future regional public

transportation system.

 Use $1.8 million Federal grant funds to indentify:

 A Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) for a



downtown transit distributer.

 Viable financial plan to fund construction,



operation, and maintenance .

STUDY AREA



 A narrow, two-mile corridor

in downtown Kansas City,

Mo.

 Runs from the River Market

on the north, through the

Central Business District

and the Crossroads areas to

Union Station and Crown

Center on the south.

STUDY PARTNERS AND

CONSULTANTS

 Partnership Team:

 Kansas City, Mo.

 Kansas City Area Transportation Authority

 Mid-America Regional Council

 Jackson County, Mo.

 Consultants:

 HDR Inc. Nelson/Nygaard, Polsinelli Shughart; Patti

Banks Associates, HG Consult, Inc; Burns &

McDonnell; and Architectural and Historical

Research

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

STREETCARS AND LIGHT RAIL









Portland Streetcar Denver Light Rail

TRANSPORTATION

BENEFITS

 Provides downtown circulation

 Links activity and employment

centers

 Works with current bus system

 Compatible with future transit

plans

 Promotes walkability

 Focuses on short, urban trips

 Frequent service and stops

ECONOMIC BENEFITS



 Provides sense of place,

permanence

 Reinforces private, public

downtown investment

 Inspires Transit Oriented

Development

 Connects people with

businesses, services

 Steps toward a larger

system

DESIGN BENEFITS

 66’ long = 1.5 buses

 8’ width = 1 bus

 1/3 smaller than light

rail

 Size and weight allows

rapid, shallow slab

construction

 Lightweight cantenary

 Integrated stops and

stations

MODERN STREETCAR

SYSTEMS

 Seattle South Lake – 1.3 miles, $52.3 million

 Tucson – 3.9 miles, $150 million (under construction)

 Portland Eastside – 3.3 miles, $147 million

 Tacoma Link – 1.6 miles, $80 million

SCHEDULE

 April – June 2011

 Purpose and Need

 Project Goals and Objectives

 Identification of Alternatives

 July – September 2011

 Detailed Alternatives Assessment (resulting in the

locally preferred alternative)

 Financial Assessment

 October – December 2011

 Draft Report

 January 2012

 Final Report

Creating

Sustainable

Places

HUD Sustainable Communities Planning Grant



• $4.25 million Three-fold program

over three years • Organize for Success

• 60+ partners • Enhance Decision Making

– Local Governments • Demonstrate New Models

– Nonprofits

– Housing

Strategy

– Business/Profession • Strengthen equity principles

al Organizations • Measure progress

– Equity Organizations • Integrate and align local,

– Universities regional and federal plans and

investments





CREATING SUSTAINABLE PLACES VIBRANT | CONNECTED | GREEN

REGIONAL PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT



 Captured in the Regional Plan

for Sustainable Development









CREATING SUSTAINABLE PLACES VIBRANT | CONNECTED | GREEN

Centers, Corridors &

Conservation Strategy



• Focus development

along key corridors

• Mixed use walkable

communities

• More support for transit

from more riders and

destinations

• More emphasis on

redevelopment of

existing communities

• Make more efficient use

of existing infrastructure

CURRENT FOCUS







 Equity Engagement

 Partners

 Workshop

 Corridor Planning

 Six corridors identified

 Each in different stage

 Tool Development

 Visualization

 Economic feasibility

 Natural Resources Inventory (NRI)

 Monitoring and Evaluation

 Set of indicators









CREATING SUSTAINABLE PLACES VIBRANT | CONNECTED | GREEN

CURRENT FOCUS





 Six Month Plan

 Draft Guiding Principles

 Coordinating Committee

 Partners Congress

 Needs Assessments

 Tool Development

 Indicators

 Corridor and NRI Consultants Selected









CREATING SUSTAINABLE PLACES VIBRANT | CONNECTED | GREEN

Thank You

Ron Achelpohl

Assistant Director, Transportation

MARC

816-474-4240

rona@marc.org



http://www.marc.org/2040