Metro - File #: 2023-0026

• File #: 2023-0026
• Type: Motion / Motion Response
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 1/17/2023
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 4/19/2023
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE the update on funding for the Rail to River Active Transportation Corridor - Segment B Project.
• Indexes: Alternatives analysis, Application, Board approved a Motion, Call For Projects, Community Transportation, Construction, Federal Highway Administration, Fernando Dutra, Funding plan, Government funding, Grant Aid, I-710, Janice Hahn, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Motion / Motion Response, Pilot studies, Program, Project, Rail to Rail/River Active Transportation Corridor Project, Retrofitting, Slauson Station, State highways, Strategic planning, United States Department Of Transportation, West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor (WSAB) Project

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PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
APRIL 19, 2023

Subject
SUBJECT: RAIL TO RIVER ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR - SEGMENT B

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE the update on funding for the Rail to River Active Transportation Corridor - Segment B Project.
Issue
ISSUE

At the October 2022 Board Meeting, the Board approved a Motion 10.1 by Directors Dutra and Hahn (Attachment A) directing staff to consider and include the State's "Reconnecting Communities/Highway to Boulevards Program" and the federal "Reconnecting Communities" and "Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program", as possible funding sources for the Rail to River Active Transportation Corridor - Segment B Project. Staff was also directed to return to the Board in April 2023 with more details on these programs, including eligible uses of the funds, the agency responsible for managing the funds, the next funding cycle and grant application due dates, evaluation criteria, and examples of local projects that have been funded through these programs.

Background
BACKGROUND

The Rail to River Segment B Project is the eastern segment of the longer Rail to Rail/River Active Transportation Corridor. The western segment, Segment A, is currently in construction and includes approximately six (6) miles of active transportation facilities connecting the new Metro K (Crenshaw) Line Fairview Heights Station to the Metro A (Blue) Line Slauson Station. Segment B extends the corridor four (4) miles east from the Metro A Line to the Los Angeles River, traversing a small segment of unincorporated Los Angeles County and the cities of Huntington Park, Maywood, and Bell (Attachment B), for a total of ten (10) miles of active transportation infrastructure.

In August 2022, the Board received the Rail to River Segment B Supplemental Alternatives Analysis (SAA) Study findings and approved the staff's recommendation to maintain Randolph Street as the pr...