Metro - File #: 2024-1029

• File #: 2024-1029
• Type: Oral Report / Presentation
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 10/23/2024
• In control: Measure M Independent Taxpayer Oversight Committee
• On agenda: 12/11/2024
• Title: RECEIVE oral report on Measure M Active Transportation, programmed revenues, and uses to support discussion on the effective and efficient use of funds.
• Indexes: Active Transportation Program, Active Transportation Strategic Plan, Bikeways, Carson, Construction, Culver City, First/Last Mile, Hawthorne, LA River Bike Path Gap Closure Project, Lomita, Maps, Measure M, Metro Active Transport (MAT) project, North Los Angeles County subregion, Operations and Maintenance, Oral Report / Presentation, Palmdale, Partnerships, Program, Public works, Safety, South Bay Cities subregion, Westside Cities subregion, Westside/Central Service Sector

Meeting_Body
MEASURE M INDEPENDENT TAXPAYER OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
DECEMBER 11, 2024

Subject
SUBJECT: MEASURE M ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION UPDATES

Action
ACTION: ORAL REPORT

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE oral report on Measure M Active Transportation, programmed revenues, and uses to support discussion on the effective and efficient use of funds.

Issue
ISSUE

To support the discussion for the effective and efficient use of funds, this quarterly presentation provides the committee with the status of Metro active transportation activities related to Measure M projects including the LA River Waterway & System Bike Path, the Metro Active Transport Program, Multi-Year Subregional Program, and the First/Last Mile Program.

Equity_Platform
EQUITY PLATFORM

The Measure M related activities for active transportation include the Active Transportation Strategic Plan (ATSP) and subsequent Metro Active Transport, Transit and First/Last Mile (MAT) Program, as well as two projects in the Measure M Expenditure Plan that will connect the bike path gaps along the Los Angeles River. Metro also engages in First/Last Mile planning for communities to access existing and future major transit stops. Equity is built into Metro's approach to all of these activities.

The 2023 ATSP identified and prioritized a regional active transportation network based on criteria, including overlap with Equity Focus Communities (EFC). Projects in the ATSP regional network are eligible for MAT Program Cycle 2 funding. MAT Cycle 2 project applications will also be evaluated based on factors including robust partnerships with Community Based Organizations (CBO). Project applications that were submitted for MAT Cycle 1 in 2020 were given bonus points for locations within EFCs. All selected projects that are being developed using Cooperative Agreements with Metro include CBO partnerships.

The LA River Project - Central City section directly serves seven EFC census tracts in the communities o...