Colorado Statewide Transit Plan Open house at DRCOG on May 12, 2014.

2.  Part 1 – Background
 Part 2 – Transit Related Elements
 Part 3 – 2040 RTP Timeline

6.  Plan and prioritize major transportation investments
 Collaborative decision-making & public involvement
 Long range (20+ yrs) regional transportation plan:
 Fiscally constrained (costs = revenues)
 Major transportation projects identified
 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
 Identifies federally funded projects and services
 Protect air quality

8. ♦ Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
♦ Regional Transportation District (RTD)
♦56 Local Governments of DRCOG
♦USDOT – Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
& Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
♦Regional Air Quality Commission (RAQC)
♦Denver Regional Mobility & Access Council (DRMAC)
♦Transportation Management Associations (TMAs)
♦ Interest Groups / General Public

9.  Accommodate 1+ million more
residents and 0.7 million more jobs
 1 in 4 persons aged 60+ by 2035
 Maintain and enhance quality of life
and economic viability for persons of
all ages, incomes and abilities
 Limited funding

10.  Where will people live and work?
 Housing supply & price, labor force
 Job types and location
 Typical work week
 Where will people shop, recreate, go
to school, obtain health services?
 Seniors, students, lower-income persons
 How will they travel? What mobility
options?
 Roads (construct and maintain)
 Transit service (RTD)
 Accessibility for bicyclists and pedestrians

11. 2040 Metro Vision RTP (MVRTP):
 Metro Vision goals and policies
 Includes Fiscally Constrained RTP
 Vision (unfunded) projects – illustrative only
2040 Fiscally Constrained RTP
 Meet federal requirements:
 Air Quality Conformity & Fiscal Constraint
 Projects and category allocations
―Individual projects: regionally significant roadway & rapid transit
―Allocations for preservation, maintenance, transit, bicycle,
pedestrian, etc. (not specific projects)

12. 20 + years
Metro Vision
Transit, Roads,
O&M, TDM,
Bicycle &
Pedestrian
Reasonably
expected
funding
Unfunded

13.  Federal fuel tax (no increase since 1993)
 Federal general fund
 State fuel tax (no increase since 1991)
 State FASTER (fees, registration)
 RTD sales & use taxes + fare box revenues
 Local governments, tolling, & private

14.  Implements the RTP
 Projects funded during the next 4 years
 Real money
 Explicit funding years and sources
 Lists every project to receive federal
transportation funds
 Most projects “selected” by either DRCOG
or CDOT

18.  Required by MAP-21 federal legislation
 Used to define eligible FTA 5310 projects
 Will be part of 2040 RTP
 Describes existing coordinated
transportation activities
 Outline for future coordinated
transportation activities

19.  Fund specific projects
 Preclude local coordination plans

21.  Underway:
 Defining available revenues
 Defining fiscally constrained and “vision” rapid transit
system
 Summer:
 Refine goals, policies, and action strategies
 Prepare initial transit related documentation
 September:
 Complete initial draft Plan documents
 October-December:
 Public hearings, adoption