TransPlan50 Regional Transportation Plan for Urban Utah County - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

TransPlan50

Regional Transportation Plan for Urban Utah County Draft Fiscally Constrained Projects Lists

• The Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) is updated every four years
• Next update called TransPlan50 will be complete in June 2019
• In developing the RTP, a modeled projects needed list is created for the

regional highway and transit projects (Oct 2018)

• Federal regulations require air quality conformity on a fiscally constrained

plan with reasonable funding assumptions

RTP Development

• Projects proposed in the plan are larger regional projects
• Planned highways include widening projects on arterial and freeway

facilities as defined on the state functional classified map

• Transit includes bus rapid transit, light rail, commuter rail, and core bus
• Active Transportation includes trails and bike lanes

Draft Project Lists

• Highway funding carries the past 20 year trend allocations forward,

adjusting for growth

• Transit funding includes past sales tax trends, adjusting for growth
• Four quarter-cent sales taxes are considered
• The first cent - passed by the Utah Co. Commission in 2018 at 40%

transit

• The others three are assumed by 2030, 2040 and 2050 at 100% transit
• Active Transportation projects are not required to be fiscally constrained

Planned Funding

• MPO TAC met on Dec 17
• Some changes were proposed to be made after their meeting
• Those changes were emailed to TAC members and no negative comments

were made

• MPO TAC recommended approval of the list including any changes made

after their emailed review

MPO TAC Comments

• Pleasant Grove BLVD #21 | Change description from new to widening
• Lehi 2100 N FWY #13 | Lower cost from $320m to $311m
• New Project Mountain View FWY | Add capacity 2040-50 about $26m
• Move freight rail projects from transit list to freight map in appendix
• Light Rail #12 (needs map) | Show Geneva RD alignment through Lindon

and Vineyard (as shown in past plan), show “Location to be Determined” from Vineyard to Orem

• These changes are recommended by MAG staff to be approved

Additional Comments Since MPO TAC

• Minimal adjustments to the draft projects lists can still be made
• Move forward to produce the TransPlan50 document and reports
• March 2019 | Draft document plan approval
• April 2019 | 30-day public comment period
• June 2019 | Final approval
• Once adopted, regional projects must be in the plan to be funded in the

Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)

Next Steps

I move that the MPO Regional Planning Committee, based on the MPO TAC motion and minor changes recommended by MAG staff, approve the draft Fiscally Constrained Project Lists.

Suggested Motion