FY2018-2022 Regional Transportation Improvement Program
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FY2018-2022 Regional Transportation Improvement Program Report No. 01-2018 Adopted by the COMPASS Board of Directors on October 16, 2017 Resolution No. 03-2018 Amended: December 18, 2017, February 26, 2018, April 16, 2018, June 18, 2018 and November 13, 2018 Modified: October 24, 2017, November 9, 2017, December 7, 2017, January 9, 2018, February 6, 2018, March 8, 2018, April 12, 2018, May 10, 2018, May 15, 2018, July 12, 2018, July 26, 2018, August 6, 2018, August 15, 2018, September 10, 2018, September 12, 2018, October 18, 2018, November 19, 2018, and December 14,2018 The completion of this document was financed by U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) funds through the Idaho Transportation Department and contributions from member agencies within Ada and Canyon Counties. T:\FY18\600 Projects\685 TIP\FY1822TIP\Reports\FY2018TIPrpt.docx TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................ 1 I. FORMATTING ....................................................................................... 2 II. PUBLIC OUTREACH EFFORTS .................................................................. 2 III. TIP ACHIEVEMENT .............................................................................. 10 IV. AIR QUALITY CONFORMITY .................................................................. 17 V. LOCAL PLANNING ACTIVITIES .............................................................. 18 VI. FUNDING CATEGORIES ........................................................................ 19 VII. FINANCIAL CONSTRAINT ..................................................................... 24 VIII. PROGRAM FUNDING ALLOCATIONS ....................................................... 36 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: TIP Achievement Categories ............................................................ 10 Table 2: Criteria for TIP Achievement Categories ............................................. 11 Table 3: Analysis of TIP Achievement ............................................................ 13 Table 4: Federal Performance Measures ......................................................... 13 Table 5: Idaho Statewide Safety Targets ........................................................ 14 Table 6: Analysis of Safety Projects in the FY2018-2022 TIP ............................. 14 Table 7: Funding Sources and Uses ............................................................... 20 Table 8: FY2018 Appropriation - HB314 and HB320 ......................................... 28 Table 9: Highway User Revenue - FY2018 ...................................................... 29 Table 10: Available Funding* with Match vs. Programmed Projects (AvP) DRAFT FY2018-2022 Idaho Transportation Investment Program .................... 30 Table 11: Ada County Highway District Budget History, 2012-2016 .................... 31 Table 12: Ada County Highway District Budget Program, FY2018-FY2022 Projected Revenues and Expenditures for Capital Projects ................................. 32 Table 13: Nampa Urbanized Area Cities and Highway Districts Budget History, 2012-2016 ................................................................................... 32 Table 14: Nampa Urbanized Area Cities and Highway Districts Budget Projects, 2017-2021 ................................................................................... 32 Table 15: Other Canyon County Cities and Highway Districts Budget History, 2012- 2016 ........................................................................................... 33 Table 16: Other Canyon County Cities and Highway Districts Budget Projections, 2017–2021................................................................................... 33 Table 17: Valley Regional Transit Budget History, 2012–2016 ........................... 33 Table 18: Valley Regional Transit Budget Projections, 2017–2020 ...................... 34 Table 19: COMPASS Region Available vs. Programmed Funding ......................... 35 Table 20: Share of Project Costs Allocated to Alternative Modes of Transportation .............................................................................. 36 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: COMPASS planning area ................................................................... 3 Figure 2: Northern Ada County air quality maintenance area ............................... 4 Figure 3: COMPASS open house ...................................................................... 6 Figure 4: Newspaper advertisement ................................................................ 7 Figure 5: Public comment demographic data ..................................................... 9 APPENDICES Appendix A: List of Projects .......................................................................... 37 Appendix B: Verbatim Public Comments ....................................................... 151 INTRODUCTION The Regional Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is a short-range (3-5 year) capital improvement program (budget) of transportation projects consistent with federal regulations and area policies and strategies. The Idaho Transportation Investment Program (ITIP) is the state’s short-range capital improvement program. The ITIP references projects in Ada County and Canyon County via the Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho (COMPASS) TIP. The TIP is developed through a cooperative process by COMPASS, the designated metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the Nampa Urbanized Area and the Boise Urbanized Area Transportation Management Area (TMA). This process involves extensive participation by Ada County, Ada County Highway District, Boise State University, Canyon County, Canyon Highway District, Capital City Development Corporation (CCDC), Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Golden Gate Highway District, Idaho Transportation Department (ITD), Valley Regional Transit (VRT), and the cities of Boise, Caldwell, Eagle, Garden City, Greenleaf, Kuna, Melba, Meridian, Middleton, Nampa, Notus, Parma, Star, and Wilder. The TIP must be consistent with the regional long-range transportation plan, Communities in Motion 2040 (CIM 2040). The COMPASS Board of Directors adopted CIM 2040 on July 21, 2014. The plan is comprised of long-range transportation corridors, a short-range public transportation component, air quality conformity, pathway development, and transportation system management elements. CIM 2040 is consistent with the goals and objectives of the area’s comprehensive plans. The first four years of the TIP are of particular interest since the years are considered as “budgeted,” while the remaining years are more informational in nature. The latter projects are listed to provide a framework for transportation needs that move from the planning stage to the implementation stage. Per federal regulations, information on the status of projects in the first year of the previous TIP will be posted online by December 2017 at www.compassidaho.org/prodserv/transimprovement.htm under “Annual Listing of Projects.” This document includes all federally funded projects and those non-federally funded projects deemed “regionally significant” for air quality purposes in Ada County (see page 18 for the definition of “regionally significant”). The TIP projects identified in this document are within the estimates of available funds from a variety of sources, both federal and non-federal. The Boise TMA includes the cities of Boise, Eagle, Meridian, and Garden City; and the Nampa Urbanized Area includes the cities of Nampa, Caldwell, and Middleton, as well as adjacent densely settled areas as shown in Figure 1. The smoothed urbanized area boundaries for the Boise and Nampa areas were adopted by the COMPASS Board of Directors, via Resolution 15-2013, on August 19, 2013. The planning area includes all of Ada and Canyon Counties. The Ada County air quality 1 “maintenance area” encompasses the entire area of Ada County north of the Boise Baseline (Figure 2), located seven miles south of the City of Kuna. Northern Ada County is a maintenance area for two air pollutants – coarse particulate matter (airborne dust and other particles; referred to as “PM10”) and carbon monoxide. Northern Ada County violated the federal standard for these pollutants in the 1980s and early 1990s, and has been in compliance ever since. Plans are in place to ensure the area maintains its compliance with these standards. The urban clusters of the cities of Kuna and Star and inside the planning area and the maintenance area. I. FORMATTING The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and ITD met early in 2010 with the intent of finding ways to more efficiently manage the ITIP process. i. FHWA requires all reporting documents be shown in the year of expenditure. This means project costs must be shown with inflationary factors expected for the year funds will be expended. ii. Agencies in the State of Idaho currently use a 2% inflation factor to adjust the cost of future expenditures for most projects. II. PUBLIC OUTREACH EFFORTS The public outreach process for the annual TIP begins approximately 16 months prior to its final approval. This effort includes requesting input from the local governments in the Boise and Nampa Urbanized Areas, local governments outside of the urbanized areas within Ada and Canyon Counties, and the general public. Public outreach efforts are guided by, and comply with, requirements and recommendations outlined in the COMPASS Public Involvement Plan (Section II of the COMPASS Integrated