An official website of the POLICY 5: Needs of people with disabilities
This policy states:
Ensure communities and investments meet federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards and encourage partner government agencies to go above minimum standards to fully meet the needs of people who have a disability in infrastructure, services, communication, and engagement.
Actions
- Investment Priority (IP): Actions tagged with (IP) provide direction to regional investment processes directed by the plan. This includes the Regional Solicitation, which will complete an evaluation to determine the appropriate framework and application of these actions to the Regional Solicitation. Actions could be applied in the Regional Solicitation in a variety of ways including qualifying requirements, application categories, or scoring measures. These actions can also apply to other regional highway and transit funding programs. Investment priorities targeted exclusively at local governments are tagged as local planning (see below).
- Local Planning (LP): Actions tagged with (LP) are requirements or guidance for agencies to incorporate into the transportation element of their Comprehensive Plans, corridor plans, transit provider plans, and other plans that are not regional or statewide. Major items are noted but this is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Local planning tag may also indicate actions with potential local investment priorities that would help support regional goals and objectives that are not tied to regional or statewide investment programs.
- Technical Capacity Building (CB): Actions tagged with (CB) are technical assistance and support activities to provide guidance and best practices to agencies that builds regional technical capacity.
- Partner (P): Actions tagged with (P) are activities that support the regional goals and transportation objectives where the plan is directing partners to take a direct lead. This tag applies primarily to regional or state partners; the local planning tag provides direction to local partners.
- Work Program (WP): Actions tagged with (WP) are work program activities, including staff time and consultant studies, to be worked on until the next scheduled update of the plan in five years. These items are necessary to further research and policy guidance to support the region in achieving its goals and transportation objectives. Work program items are listed at the end of each policy. More complete descriptions of work program items are provided in the Imagine 2050 TPP Work Program.
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Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 5A. Support and fund efforts across the region to be compliant with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act minimum requirements by 2050. Track and report progress. (See 5B for related action.) Action type: Partner |
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| 5B. Identify methodologies and enforcement options to ensure ADA transition plans meet all requirements and best practices. Agencies should demonstrate they are making progress towards compliance. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 5C. Review and update self-evaluations and transition plans for the public rights-of-way regularly. Local agencies should ensure their self-evaluations and transition plans address all requirements included in federal Public Right of Way Accessibility Guidelines once adopted by the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Justice. Action types: Local Planning Partner |
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| 5D. Maintain publicly accessible fleet and transportation facilities to meet or exceed all ADA requirements. Programs including ride-hailing companies, carshare, and microtransit fleets must include enough accessible vehicles to equitably serve all customers, regardless of mobility device needs. Action type: Partner |
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| 5E. Provide training, technical assistance, and best practice guidance to expand universal design elements in transportation projects to ensure facilities can be accessed, understood, and used to the greatest extent by all people. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
TBD is to be determined. Agencies have not yet been identified.
