Roadmap for the future

Friday, November 13, 2015, Vol. 39, No. 46

The Northwest Corridor Transit Study team will develop a practical “roadmap” for addressing subsequent local planning and development milestones, and for advancing the preferred alternative(s) through the Federal process. The roadmap will include:

• Review and justification for the most appropriate National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) class of action

• A proposed schedule for completing Federal environmental review and the design necessary to develop a reliable project scope and budget

• The identification of local planning and right-of-way requirements and approvals, and strategies for their timely execution

• The identification of potential state, local, and other revenues – including value capture, joint development and other innovative finance mechanisms – to match New Starts and Small Starts resources. Strategies for securing such revenues will be developed

• A review and analysis of various project delivery options

• The development of a formal request to enter “Project Development (PD),” the first formal step in FTA’s New Starts and Small Starts process.