Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025
Subject
SUBJECT: 2025 SHORT RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN
Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE 2025 Short Range Transportation Plan (Attachment A).
Issue
ISSUE
The 2025 Short Range Transportation Plan (2025 SRTP) is a 15-year financially constrained plan that provides an update to the progress made since the adoption of the 2020 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP), to guide near and intermediate-term transportation investments in Los Angeles County (Attachment A). The SRTP presents a strategic roadmap to improve mobility, safety, and accessibility in Los Angeles County through targeted investments and initiatives approved by the Board.
The 2025 SRTP is presented in response to recent significant global, national, and regional challenges that threaten to impact Metro's ability to deliver the Board's priority projects and programs, including post-pandemic transition to remote work opportunities, evolving state and federal priorities, impact of tariffs and trade policies, and lower-than-forecasted sales tax receipts. The SRTP outlines these and other financial risks and regional transportation challenges and provides the groundwork for mitigation strategies, future Board policymaking decisions, the upcoming Measure M Decennial Review and the next LRTP.
Background
BACKGROUND
In September 2020, the Metro Board adopted the 2020 LRTP, which is mandated by state and federal legislation. The 2020 LRTP is a financially constrained plan that identified and examined how Metro's future transportation investments can be leveraged to achieve maximum mobility benefits for all of Los Angeles County over the next 30 years.
The LRTP organized Metro's roles and responsibilities thematically into four priority areas: Better Transit, Less Congestion, Complete Streets, and Access to Opportunity. The themes were identified from a two-year outreach effor...
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