Metro - File #: 2019-0506

• File #: 2019-0506
• Type: Motion / Motion Response
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 6/19/2019
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 7/17/2019
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE response to Motion 16.1 (File #: 2019-0259, Attachment A), regarding the Vermont Transit Corridor.
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Alignment, Board approved a Motion, Bus rapid transit, Eric Garcetti, Feasibility analysis, Grant Aid, Hilda Solis, Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, James Butts, Janice Hahn, Motion / Motion Response, Project delivery, Public private partnerships, Qualitative analysis, Strategic planning, Unsolicited Proposal Policy, Value capture, Vermont Avenue Transit Corridor
• Related files: 2019-0259

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JULY 17, 2019

Subject
SUBJECT: VERMONT TRANSIT CORRIDOR

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE response to Motion 16.1 (File #: 2019-0259, Attachment A), regarding the Vermont Transit Corridor.

Issue
ISSUE

In April 2019, the Metro Board approved a Motion by Directors Garcetti, Dupont-Walker, Hahn, Solis, and Butts regarding the Vermont Transit Corridor. The Motion directed staff to advance technically feasible rail concepts through the environmental review process and undertaking a feasibility study of extending the Vermont Transit Corridor to the South Bay Silver Line Pacific Coast Highway Station, if additional funding materializes.

The Motion also directed staff to report back with a "...Public Private Partnership business case approach for each Minimum Operable Segment". Staff's understanding of the intent of reporting back on the Public Private Partnership (P3) Business Case was to understand how a substantially more robust transit facility with tunneling and potentially rail could be made financially feasible considering the funding limitations of the Measure M Expenditure Plan.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

As a project progresses through its initial phases of definition and development, various tools can be utilized to help inform the feasibility of various project alternatives and the associated benefits. With respect to the Vermont Transit Corridor, considering the variety of modes, configurations, and alignments under consideration, these tools can provide important information regarding all options for how best to serve this critical transit corridor.

Collectively, the findings of the types of analysis undertaken can inform a Business Case for a particular project delivery approach. Such tools can include both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the project itself, assessment of the risks and opportunities of delivery and long-term operat...