Metro - File #: 2019-0205

• File #: 2019-0205
• Type: Project
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 4/1/2019
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 4/17/2019
• Title: CONSIDER: A. RECEIVING AND FILING the findings and recommendations from the Vermont Transit Corridor Rail Conversion/Feasibility Study; B. APPROVING advancement of the two BRT concepts: 1) an end-to-end side-running and 2) a combination side and center-running, previously identified through the 2017 Vermont Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Technical Study into environmental review; C. AUTHORIZING study of a center-running BRT facility or similarly high performing, dedicated BRT facility across the Vermont Transit Corridor study area that is feasible to be delivered per the Measure M expected opening date to supplement the existing 2017 Vermont BRT Technical Study; D. DIRECTING the CEO to return to the Board with the findings from the supplemental study prior to initiating the environmental review scoping process; and E. DIRECTING broad public, stakeholder and partner engagement to be undertaken as part of the supplemental study and environmental review efforts. (CARRIED OVER FROM MARCH...
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Alignment, Board approved a Motion, Budgeting, Bus rapid transit, California Environmental Quality Act, City of Los Angeles, Construction, Curbs, Division 20, Koreatown, Light rail transit, Maintenance, Maps, Measure M, Metro Equity Platform, Metro Exposition Line, Metro Purple Line, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail B Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Red Line, Motion / Motion Response, Outreach, Project, Rail transit, Ridership, Safety, Strategic planning, Streetcars, Third rail, Transit buses, Travel time, Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative, Vermont Avenue Transit Corridor, Vermont Transit Corridor (Project), Wilshire/Vermont Station
• Related files: 2018-0817, 2019-0281

REVISED
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
APRIL 17, 2019

Subject
SUBJECT: VERMONT TRANSIT CORRIDOR - RAIL CONVERSION/FEASIBILITY STUDY

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. RECEIVING AND FILING the findings and recommendations from the Vermont Transit Corridor Rail Conversion/Feasibility Study;

B. APPROVING advancement of the two BRT concepts: 1) an end-to-end side-running and 2) a combination side and center-running, previously identified through the 2017 Vermont Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Technical Study into environmental review;

C. AUTHORIZING study of a center-running BRT facility or similarly high performing, dedicated BRT facility across the Vermont Transit Corridor study area that is feasible to be delivered per the Measure M expected opening date to supplement the existing 2017 Vermont BRT Technical Study;

D. DIRECTING the CEO to return to the Board with the findings from the supplemental study prior to initiating the environmental review scoping process; and

E. DIRECTING broad public, stakeholder and partner engagement to be undertaken as part of the supplemental study and environmental review efforts.

(CARRIED OVER FROM MARCH)
Issue
ISSUE

The Vermont Transit Corridor is a Measure M project with an expected opening date of Fiscal Year (FY) 2028. This project is also included in the Twenty-Eight by '28 Initiative adopted by the Board in January 2018. In order to meet the Measure M and Twenty-Eight by '28 schedule, a project for the corridor needs to be identified and environmentally cleared through an environmental review study. At the March 23, 2017 Board meeting, the Board approved a motion (Attachment A) directing staff to take a number of actions, including proceeding with the Vermont Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project as a near-term transit improvement, while also initiating a study looking at future potential rail. This report addresses that motion. The study concluded that the BRT c...