G1. TIP Number: |
995001
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G2. State: |
Regional (bistate)
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G3. Multiple agencies / jurisdictions?
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Yes
Johnson County, Overland Park, and Lenexa
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G4 Project contact: |
Tracey Logan
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G5 Purpose and need:
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These routes already provide important transportation services and connect to existing MAX routes, but are often lacking in quality passenger infrastructure, accessibility to surrounding neighborhoods, and often have slow or unreliable travel times due to a lack of transit priority measures.
This project will improve safety and accessibility to the transit network in neighborhoods that exhibit a higher propensity for transit use.
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G6. Origin and ending
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  Route:
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Routes 401 and 475 within Johnson County
25.7
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G7 Functional Classification:
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Minor Arterial
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G8 Connected KC 2050 Decade?
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2020
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G9 Muli-Agency Plan?
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Yes
In addition to achieving goals and strategies from Connected KC and the SmartMoves regional transit plan, this project will also implement features of the 75th & Metcalf PSP plan from 2017, the Re-Imagine 75th Street PSP plan from 2019, as well as take a step toward implementing BRT-type service on the Metcalf corridor as recommended (in a phased approach) by the Metcalf and Shawnee Mission Parkway Alternatives Analysis and Vision Metcalf.
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G10 Included in a CIP?
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No
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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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Yes
This project supports transit operational and customer service goals and objectives that are central to RideKC operations but beyond the scope of Connected KC 2050. This includes achieving travel time savings that will improve service reliability and on-time performance for passengers, as well as the communciation of that information through real-time data.
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G16 Transportation Disadvantaged Population:
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The Metcalf and 75th/Quivira corridors serve several environmental justice tracts in Mission, Overland Park, and Lenexa. These are areas with a higher percentage of minority and/or low-income populations. Both corridors also serve several older adult housing complexes, providing additional transportation options for these populations.
These improvements will meet a critical need for transportation disadvantaged populations in this area by making it easier and safer to access public transit or to walk or bike to destinations.
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G17 Relevant Public Engagement:
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Two recent PSP projects included public engagement efforts in support of transit, pedestrian, and other complete streets improvements on the Metcalf and 75th Street corridors.
These efforts included surveys of surrounding residents as well as business owners, in the case of the 75th & Metcalf PSP project. For both projects, public open house meetings were held to determine priorities and recommendations for improvements. Information on these public input opportunities were provided at bus stops in the project area, to ensure that transit users specifically would have an opportunity to participate.
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G18 Planned Public Engagement:
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Engaging the public and particularly transit customers at the point of service, at the bus stop or on the bus, will continue to be a major feature of public outreach as these projects progress. Through experience, KCATA has determined this is the most effective technique to engage transportation disadvantaged populations on planning and infrastrucutre projects.
KCATA and Johnson County will also utilize relationships with social service providers to engage populations that those entities specialize in serving.
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G19 Sustainable Places Criteria:
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Access to Healthy Foods---Active Transportation/Living---Age in Place-------
Complete Street Design---------------
----Green Infrastructure-----------
------------Pedestrian-Oriented Public Realm---
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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 a major function of fast and frequent transit service, and existing routes on these corridors directly serve multiple grocery stores.
Improved transit infrastructure allows more people to "age in place" by making it safer and easier to acces transit services, with ADA-compliant bus stops and accessible routes.
Active transportation, complete streets, and pedestrian-oriented public realm objectives will be met by improving sidewalk, crosswalk, ADA ramp, and bicycle facilities at or near bus stops.
Finally, green infrastructure improvements such as natural landscaping and trees will be provided as warranted and applicable to ech individual location.
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G20 Implements Sustainable Places Initiatives?
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Yes
Yes, this project will implement strategies of multiple recent PSP projects, including: 75th & Metcalf (2017), Quivira Road Corridor Plan (2017), Vision Metcalf: College Boulevard Node (2017), and and Re-Imagine 75th Street (2019).
In fact, the Metcalf and Shawnee Mission Parkway corridor was one of the six CSP corridors that were studied in detail in 2012.
"CONNECTED" is the primary strategy that these proejcts focus on, by making it easier and safer for people to travel with a variety of options. But transit is also an important component of VIBRANT and GREEN places as well, supporting a mixed-use and dense development and reducing single-occupant vehicle trips.
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G21 Serves Regional Activity Center?
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Yes
High-Intensity and More_Walkable Centers
There are a variety of activity centers on the Metcalf and 75th/Quivira corridors, with a mix of Highest, High, and Low Intensity centers. These include downtown Mission, downtown Overland Park, 75th & Quivira, Oak Park Mall, and College & Metcalf.
Bus stop improvements in these centers will improve access to transit services and enable these centers to become more vibrant, as well as conencted to each other.
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G22 Environmental justice tracts?
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Yes
The Metcalf and 75th/Quivira corridors serve several environmental justice tracts in Mission, Overland Park, and Lenexa.
These improvements will meet a critical need for transportation disadvantaged populations in this area by making it easier and safer to access public transit, and making service faster and more reliable within and between these tracts.
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G23 Reduces greenhouse gas emissions?
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Yes
By providing safer and more attractive transit and active transportation options, this provides an opportunity for more people to utilize these modes 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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High-quality public transit makes it more feasible to build dense neighborhoods that require less of a horizonal footprint due to reduced parking and automobile access demands. This can be a critical component of being able to preserve natural resources, for example by allowing larger buffers around streams. In addition, trees and landscaping will be provided to restore natural environments where space allows.
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G25 Community Links at Watershaed Scale:
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Conservation of land and resources, due to transit providing an opportunity for higher-density development with less need for parking, can significantly reduce stormwater runoff and improve overall water quality.
The watersheds involved in this project include Blue River Brush Creek, Lower Kansas River, and Upper Indian Creek.
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G26 Explain local land use or comprehensive plans:
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In addition to the PSP proejcts already referenced along these corridors, transit is also a major component of Forward OP. For example, one of the five major goals states: "A connected city offering choices for mobility
including well-maintained road networks, public transit, sidewalks, bike lanes, and trails with an emphasis on embracing new infrastructure technologies and future transportation modes." Bus rapid transit is specified as an area of focus.
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