Metro - File #: 2025-0854

• File #: 2025-0854
• Type: Program
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 9/22/2025
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 11/19/2025
• Title: CONSIDER A. AWARDING $10 million to the Open and Slow Streets Grant Program Cycles Six and Seven to fund 29 events scheduled either during the 2026 FIFA World Cup or 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games (Attachment A); and B. AUTHORIZING a waiting list of eligible events that may be awarded administratively, should funding become available from Cycles Six and Seven (Attachment A). HORVATH AMENDMENT: To direct the Chief Executive Officer to report back to the Board in March 2026 with recommendations and analysis to: A. Make Metro's Open and Slow Streets pilot program permanent, including soliciting input from community stakeholders, previous event organizers, and partnering agencies to identify recommendations to transition the Metro Open and Slow Streets Program from a pilot to a permanent program; B. Initiate an abbreviated Open and Slow Streets Grant Cycle and identify a minimum of $1 million to support waitlisted and/or new events that celebrate the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Gam...
• Sponsors: Program Management (Department), Maria Luk
• Indexes: Application, Budgeting, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Council Of Governments, Grant Aid, Guidelines, Local transportation, Metro’s Open Streets Grant Program, Motion / Motion Response, Olympic games, Open Street Grant Program (Project), Open Streets, Program, Proposition C, Safety, Southern California Association Of Governments, Strategic planning, Sustainable transportation, Transportation Demand Management, Transportation modes, Transportation system management, Travel demand management, Walking

Meeting_Body
REVISED
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 19, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: OPEN AND SLOW STREETS GRANT PROGRAM CYCLES SIX AND SEVEN

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER

A. AWARDING $10 million to the Open and Slow Streets Grant Program Cycles Six and Seven to fund 29 events scheduled either during the 2026 FIFA World Cup or 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games (Attachment A); and

B. AUTHORIZING a waiting list of eligible events that may be awarded administratively, should funding become available from Cycles Six and Seven (Attachment A).

HORVATH AMENDMENT: To direct the Chief Executive Officer to report back to the Board in March 2026 with recommendations and analysis to:

A. Make Metro's Open and Slow Streets pilot program permanent, including soliciting input from community stakeholders, previous event organizers, and partnering agencies to identify recommendations to transition the Metro Open and Slow Streets Program from a pilot to a permanent program;

B. Initiate an abbreviated Open and Slow Streets Grant Cycle and identify a minimum of $1 million to support waitlisted and/or new events that celebrate the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games that will occur between September 2026 and March 2028; and

C. Offer technical assistance, including but not limited to the identification of alternative sources of funding and partnering on external grant applications, to support agencies and organizations that were waitlisted or ineligible for funding in the Open and Slow Streets Grant Program Cycles Six and Seven.

Issue
ISSUE

The primary goal of the Open and Slow Streets Grant Program is to promote walking, cycling, and the use of public transportation. By doing so, the Program aims to encourage the development of multimodal policies and infrastructure at the local and community level. A local match is required.

Staff have completed evaluation and scoring of applications submitted for funding under...