An official website of the POLICY 9: Quality transportation facilities
This policy states:
Plan for and invest in transportation facilities that are context-sensitive and are high quality and comfortable for all users.
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.
| = Lead agency = Supporting agency |
Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 9A. Reference the National Association of City Transportation Officials Design Guides, MnDOT Bicycle Facility Design Manual, or Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks when designing corridor improvements to provide safe and connected walking and biking facilities for all ages and abilities. Prioritize projects that meet or exceed guidance in these or other references. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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| 9B. Continue to evaluate the impacts of regional safety investments. Connect with residents, businesses, and other users to understand if investments are meeting the expected results and needs of the community. If expected results are not being met or the investments result in unintended negative transportation safety outcomes, project sponsors should identify follow-up actions needed. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 9C. Provide technical assistance on the benefits and impacts of proven and emerging transportation safety strategies. Encourage local agencies to include them in their transportation planning work. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Local Planning |
ROW Indicates all other agencies with right-of-way jurisdiction.
