Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JUNE 17, 2015
Subject/Action
SUBJECT: WAYFINDING SIGNAGE GRANT PILOT PROGRAM
ACTION: APPROVE PROGRAM GUIDELINES
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
APPROVED ON CONSENT CALENDAR the Wayfinding Signage Grant Pilot Program Guidelines as outlined in Attachment A.
Issue
ISSUE
At the November 2014 meeting, the Board directed the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to create a two-year pilot Wayfinding Signage Grant Program to implement components of Metro's First/Last Mile Strategic Plan (Attachment B). The Board must adopt the grant program guidelines to ensure consistency in the program's implementation and administration.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
The Grant Program provides $500,000 over two years, beginning in Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-16, to assist agencies in designing and implementing Wayfinding Signage systems that guide people to and from transit stations on non-Metro properties. Both years funding will be awarded during FY 2015-16. Wayfinding signage projects can effectively guide and direct the public to and from Metro stations and will improve the usability of the transportation system throughout Los Angeles County. This program provides grant funds to cities, County of Los Angeles, Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, municipal and local transit operators, and Caltrans, to improve wayfinding signage within one-mile of existing Metro stations and stations that will be opened by the end of FY 2016-17. Additionally, Metro has developed Station Wayfinding Signage Guidelines (Attachment C) to assist agencies who wish to develop signage and wayfinding improvements around Metro station areas. These guidelines were previously transmitted to agencies in December 2014 and posted on http://www.metro.net/projects/call_projects under the Guidelines and Manuals section. Since the Wayfinding Signage Grant Program is a two-year pilot program, an evaluation will be conducted at the end of the demonstration ...
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