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G1. TIP Number: |
995208
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G2. State: |
Regional (bistate)
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G3. Multiple agencies / jurisdictions?
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No
KCATAs local funding sources includes contractual agreements with local communities and 1/2 cent transportation sales tax and 3/8 cent ATA sales tax in Kansas City, Missouri.
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G4 Project contact: |
Tracey Logan
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G5 Purpose and need:
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There are emerging job centers across the Kansas City region that are not within the footprint of the existing transit system and are difficult to serve by traditional means. Examples of this include: Blue River Commerce Center, Southview Commerce Center, and Turner Commerce Center. This project seeks to provide new and innovative services to these and other locations, such as microtransit and other flexible options, while also leveraging private sector and other funding opportunities to support these services.
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G6. Origin and ending
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Route:
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Length (Miles):
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Multiple future routes
21.10000
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G7 Functional Classification:
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Not Applicable
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G8 Connected KC 2050 Decade?
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2050
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G9 Muli-Agency Plan?
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Yes
Multiple regional and local planning efforts have expressed the need for, and have recommended, new services to expanding job centers. These include:
• Smart Moves 3.0 Regional Transit Plan, with new services that support and expand the reach of the fixed route "fast and frequent" system.
• Multiple Planning Sustainable Places plans, most directly the Southwest Johnson County Transit Plan, but other plans highlight this issue as well.
• Many municipal comprehensive plans include improving transit access and connectivity, especially for job access. KCMO Area Plans are an example. Martin City-Richards Gebaur, Riverfront Industrial, and KCIA address this issue most directly.
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G10 Included in a CIP?
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Yes
The project is endorsed by the Regional Transit Coordinating Council and is consistent with the long-term goals and strategies of the updated Smart Moves 3.0 Regional Transit Plan.
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G11 Planning stage:
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Conceptual Plan
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G12 Reviewed by state DOT?
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No
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G13 Right-of-Way acquisition: |
Not started
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G14 ROW by local public agency process manual?
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No
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G15 Other unique local goals and objectives?
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No
Connected KC specifies the need for expanded transit service to major job centers. In addition, this project seeks to leverage private funding to help expand service further and support these services long term, in an effort to build more sustainable funding streams.
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G16 Transportation Disadvantaged Population:
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New job access services will connect to existing transit centers or other major connecting points in the core of the system. These locations, such as 75th & Prospect which will be the connecting point for services to the south, are primarily within areas with transportation disadvantaged populations, often low-income populations who do not own a car and affordable access to jobs is essential. Many employers have also noted the need for these services, to allow access to a larger labor pool and ensure that their employees have a reliable way to get to work.
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G17 Relevant Public Engagement:
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KCATA utilizes MARC’s public involvement process to gather public input on transit projects. In order to provide an opportunity for general community, business and
neighborhood level areas to provide input on transit projects, KCATA utilizes focus groups, public meetings, stakeholder meetings, community notices and other
transit-related events. Outreach specifically occurred throughout the SmartMoves 3.0 process, where the need for these services was expressed and supported.
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G18 Planned Public Engagement:
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RideKC Development Corporation and KCATA will engage the public when service expansion projects are developed. As these projects will generally be focused on job access, much of the engagement will occur directly with employers and employees, to determine the scope of the new service (e.g. based on shift times) and to promote how to use the service and connect to the rest of the system.
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G19 Sustainable Places Criteria:
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Access to Healthy Foods---Active Transportation/Living---Age in Place---Compact, Walkable Centers---
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G19.1 Describe PSP relationship:
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Connecting residents to healthy foods, especially in areas with few options, is often one of the major goals for new transit services, which will be planned in a way to maximize this access.
Expanded transit service allows more people to "age in place" by making it possible to access a greater variety of places across the Kansas City region.
Active transportation is enhanced by providing residents and employees additional car-free transportation options, facilitating walking to and from bus stops and directly between destinations.
New transit service often facilitates compact, walkable centers by reducing the need for parking at major employment centers, thus allowing these destinations to be more compact and walkable.
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G20 Implements Sustainable Places Initiatives?
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Yes
This project dovetails with the Marlborough Catalyst project where the availability of multiple modes of transportation, including public transportation, offers access to employment. By connecting to the mobility hub at 75th & Prospect, this project will make even more jobs easily accessible to residents of Marlborough. Similarly, the project supports the Swope Area – Prospect Connectivity Project, through the same mobility hub.
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G21 Serves Regional Activity Center?
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No
Highest-Intensity and Most-Walkable Centers
This project is intended to facilitate new transit services to large and growing job centers that rely on employees who often live within the core of the transit system but the system doesnt extend as far as they need it to. The goal is to provide access from major fixed-route transit nodes, all of which are within activity centers, to major job destinations. Examples of these connecting points include: East Village Transit Center, 47th & State Avenue, 3-Trails Transit Center, and 75th & Prospect.
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G22 Environmental justice tracts?
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Yes
New job access services will connect to existing transit centers or other major connecting points in the core of the system. These locations are primarily within environemntal justice tracts with predominately minority and low-income populations. This service will provide an important access to jobs outside of these areas that would not otherwise exist.
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G23 Reduces greenhouse gas emissions?
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Yes
By expanding the geographic reach of transit, this provides an opportunity for people to ride the bus to work and make fewer trips in single-occupant vehicles, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the use of carbon based fuels.
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G24 Natural Resource information:
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By expanding the geographic reach of transit, this provides an opportunity for people to ride the bus to work and make fewer trips in single-occupant vehicles, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the use of carbon based fuels.
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G25 Community Links at Watershaed Scale:
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By expanding the geographic reach of transit, this provides an opportunity for people to ride the bus to work and make fewer trips in single-occupant vehicles, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the use of carbon based fuels.
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G26 Explain local land use or comprehensive plans:
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By expanding the geographic reach of transit, this provides an opportunity for people to ride the bus to work and make fewer trips in single-occupant vehicles, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the use of carbon based fuels.
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