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Appendix 6 Coordinated Public Transit -- Human Services Transportation Plan 2017 1. Introduction 2. Demographic Methodology 3. Inventory of Available Services 4. Assessment of Relevant Services and Facilities 5. Priority Opportunities for Future Investment or Enhanced Coordination Photo Source: NYC DOT CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................1 1.1 Overview .............................................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Federal Requirements and Funding Programs ........................................................................................................................ 2 1.3 Role of this Plan ................................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.4 Plan Contents ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3 2 DEMOGRAPHIC METHODOLOGY ......................................................................................5 2.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Definitions and Methodology ............................................................................................................................................... 5 3 INVENTORY OF AVAILABLE SERVICES ............................................................................7 3.1 Services Available Throughout the NYMTC Planning Area ...................................................................................................... 7 3.2 Lower Hudson Valley ............................................................................................................................................................ 8 3.3 New York City .................................................................................................................................................................... 11 3.4 Long Island ....................................................................................................................................................................... 15 4 ASSESSMENT OF RELEVANT SERVICES AND FACILITIES �������������������������������������������19 4.1 Gaps and Unmet Needs ...................................................................................................................................................... 19 4.2 Lower Hudson Valley .......................................................................................................................................................... 23 4.3 New York City .................................................................................................................................................................... 26 4.4 Long Island ........................................................................................................................................................................ 28 5 PRIORITY OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE INVESTMENT OR ENHANCED COORDINATION ..............................................................................................................31 5.1 Priority Investment/Coordination Opportunities .................................................................................................................... 32 5.2 Regional Planning Considerations ....................................................................................................................................... 39 5.3 Conclusions ....................................................................................................................................................................... 41 TABLE Table 1: Summary of Gaps, Needs, and Travel Challenges Described by Workshop Participants ..................................................... 21 Table 2: Priority Investment/Coordination Opportunities ................................................................................................................. 33 FIGURES Figure 1: Coordinated Public Transit-Human Services Transportation Plan for the NYMTC Area (adopted 2009) ................................ 3 Figure 2: NYMTC Counties and subregions ...................................................................................................................................... 5 Figure 3: Example of analysis map (number of older adults, bronx) ................................................................................................. 5 Figure 4: Taximagic/Curb Example ................................................................................................................................................... 8 Figure 5: Gogograndparent example ................................................................................................................................................ 8 Figure 6: Putnam Area Rapid Transit (PART) .................................................................................................................................... 8 Figure 7: Transport of Rockland (TOR) ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Figure 8: Rockland County Intra-county, for Physically disabled and Senior citizens (TRIPS) ������������������������������������������������������������ 9 Figure 9: Westchester County Bee-Line System ............................................................................................................................. 10 Figure 10: NYC Select Bus Service ................................................................................................................................................ 11 Figure 11: Access-A-Ride ............................................................................................................................................................. 12 Figure 12: Access-A-Ride ............................................................................................................................................................. 12 Figure 13: NYC CityBench ............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Figure 14: New Tottenville Station, Staten Island Railway ............................................................................................................... 15 Figure 15: New York City DOT Staten Island Ferry .......................................................................................................................... 15 Figure 16: NICE bus ...................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Figure 17: Nassau County Able-Ride ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 16 Figure 18: Suffolk County Accessible Transit (SCAT) .................................................................................................................... 17 Figure 19: Public Workshop in NASSAU COUNTY, NOVEMBER 2016 ............................................................................................. 19 Figure 20: Public Workshop FLYER ................................................................................................................................................ 19 Figure 21: Outreach survey ........................................................................................................................................................... 20 Figure 22: Travel Training MTA ...................................................................................................................................................... 25 Figure 23: Brooklyn Meeting, OCTOBER 2016 ............................................................................................................................... 27 Figure 24: Long Island Comment Card Example............................................................................................................................. 29 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I Photo Source: NYC DOT 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW The planning area of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) encompasses New York City (the boroughs of Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island), suburban Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk counties), and the Lower Hudson Valley (Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester counties). This area features a large, extremely diverse, multimodal transportation landscape that in- cludes several levels of public transit, paratransit, and human service transporta- tion options. These multiple levels of transportation services and planning process, as NYMTC has done in the past 2 the large number of providers in this geographically and is doing with this Coordinated Plan. and demographically diverse area pose many chal- lenges to the coordination of needs and services for The FTA apportions Section 5310 funds according specific groups within the resident population. to the size of the planning area, with designated