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MEETING REMINDER: SPECIAL JPACT WORK SESSIONS Meeting 1: Monday, September 14, 1987 Overview of Portland 3-6pm, Metro Council Chambers Transportation Issues Meeting 2: Monday, September 28, 1987 Regional LRT Corridors 3-6pm, Metro Council Chambers Meeting 3: Monday, October 12, 1987 Establish Regional 3-6pm, Metro Council Chambers Priorities Meeting 4: Monday, October 26, 1987 Establish Funding 3-6pm, Metro Council Chambers Priorities & Strategies NOTE: Overflow parking is available at City Center parking locations on attached map and may be validated at the meeting. Parking in Metro "Reserved" spaces will result in vehicle towing. metro metro location NUMBERS INDICATE BUS STOPS REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PRIORITIES JPACT Work Sessions Meeting 1 — Overview of Regional Transportation Issues 3:00 A. Introduction 1. Rena Cusma - Preface 2. Dick Waker - Overview of meeting schedules, format, agnedas 3. Andy Cotugno - Introduction of Policy Issues to be addressed 3:15 B. Regional Transportation Plan Overview - Andy Cotugno 1. Policy direction 2. Growth 3. Improvements 4. Funding 5. Ten year needs 4:00 C. Presentation of Development and Transportation Priorities - Three Counties, Portland, ODOT, Tri-Met, Port of Portland 5:30 D. Discussion of Policy Issues - Dick Waker 1. Discussion of Issues 2. Additional Policy Issues 3. Criteria for Priority Setting 6:00 E. Adjourn Meeting 2 — Regional LRT Corridors A. Introduction - Dick Waker B. Overview of LRT Policy Issues - Andy Cotugno C. Review of Technical Comparison of LRT Corridors Richard Brandman D. Review of Funding Options - Tri-Met E. Discussion of Policy Issues - Dick Waker 9/10/87 k Meeting 3 — Establish Regional Priorities A. Review criteria for decisions on regional priorities. B. Reach agreement on a short list of items that are of most critical regional importance and will be supported by the full region (can be specific projects or categories of projects), C. Reach agreement on items that are of importance to a particular jurisdiction, portion of the region or agency and will be pursued by that jurisdiction either through regional or local efforts. D. Reach agreement on items of regional importance that will be postponed; identify if minimal level of effort is needed in the interim. Meeting 4 — Establish Funding Priorities and Strategies A, Adopt funding conclusions on immediate issues: 1. Endorse Transit Development Plan; adjust Section 3 Letter-of-Intent allocations; incorporate Section 9 program into TIP. 2. Decide on whether or not/how to acquire railroad abandonments. 3. Establish FAU funding strategy. 4. Adopt resolution for $7.71 million project allocations for Marine Drive, 185th Avenue, Stark Street, and 82nd Drive. 5. Decide on balance of Interstate Transfer regional reserve. 6. Adopt Six-Year Highway Improvement Program priorities for recommendation to ODOT. B. Adopt a conclusion on whether or not/how to address unresolved funding issues: 1. Define objective for local and suburban transit service and approach for dealing with funding. 2. Define the short-range arterial system objective and the approach for dealing with funding. 3. Define the approach for dealing with LRT funding. 7739C/478 Biu 3M Founded Dec. 4 1850. Established as a daily Feb. 4,1861. The Sunday Oregonian established Dec. 4, 1881. Published daily and Sunday by the Oregonian Publishing Co.. 1320 S.W. Broadway, Portland, Oregon 97201. FRED A. STICKEL, President and Publisher WILLIAM A. H1LLIARD. Editor ROBERT M. LANDAUER, Editorial Page Editor PETER THOMPSON, Managing Editor ROBERT N. SCHOENBACHER. Advertising Dir. PATRICK L. MARLTON, Circulation Dir. -DONALD J. STERLING JR.. Asst. to the Publisher WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,1987 21st century commute Decisions in the early 1970s to massive west-side project is the next abandon the Mount Hood Freeway priority, and it is desperately needed. and start a light-rail system have Traffic already exceeds the capacity guided development of the transpor- of the Sunset Highway, even though tation system in the Portland metro- more than 40 percent of peak-hour ;politan area to the present time. travel to and from downtown is pro- ' With the diverted funds from the vided by Tri-Met. Estimates place the aborted freeway now nearly exhaust- traffic increase at 30 percent by 2000. ed, a light-rail line operating, but The $235 million project (in 1983 dol- other transit and road needs left in a lars) is the only feasible solution to state of uncertainty, the region needs an ever-expanding traffic jam. a new set of transportation decisions Meanwhile, $17 million in federal just as fundamental as those of 15 funds remain committed to light rail years ago. along the 1-205 corridor, more than a Thus, the review of regional trans- third of what is needed to extend the portation planning to be launched rail line to the airport. Indeed, the Sept. 14 by the Joint Policy Advisory entire 1-205 project between the air- Committee for Transportation takes port and Clackamas Town Center is on particular importance. estimated atj$88 million. That is con- The regional cooperative body has siderably less than-the west side been effective in formulating a project, but so is the demonstrated metropolitan plan and presenting a need. On the other hand, construc- united force for state and federal tion must begin within two years or funds. Now it must move on to the the $17 million may be lost. next plateau, for the upcoming The priority for the west-side line .review should lead to decisions that must not be diminished The oppor- will shape both transit and road tunity presented by the $17 million ^projects under construction after the must not be lost. -. -turn of the century. That is but one small example of hi The fact that there are fewer the long-range task awaiting the i federal dollars may have a signifi- regional committee's review, which * cant bearing on the outcome. The will include such other essential Wicommittee must consider how to questions as the role of transit, a fftmd transportation, or it might find west-side freeway bypass and a strat- $tself simply arguing over how to egy to pay for the transportation sys- divide a shortage. tem designed to carry a growing L: A case in point is light rail The community into the 21st century. JPACT WORK SESSIONS: POLICY DECISIONS Funding Decisions; 1. Allocate Interstate Transfer Reserve - $14.95 million 2. Finalize allocations/reallocations of Sec. 3 Trade Program 3. Decide on FAU allocation approach - regional allocation - formula allocation to counties - commit to transit 4. Set priorities for 6-year highway program Regional Transportation Issues: 1. Does the region have an overall vision for future development and transportation investment or do we simply have a collec- tion of projects? 2. Can we continue to fund sufficient transportation investment to sustain continued economic growth throughout the region? 3. Should the region continue to pursue a transit/highway ap- proach to accommodate growth or shift to a greater highway emphasis? Is the region prepared to change land use plans accordingly? Regional Transit Issues: 1. Should the region ensure that the capital program in the 5-year TDP is fully funded? 2. Should the region pursue funding to begin implementation of the RTP goal for transit expansion? Should the funding efforts be directed at both capital and operations? 3. Should the region be pursuing an LRT system as a major com- ponent of the region's transit expansion objectives? Which corridor(s) should be the priority? Regional Highway Issues: 1. Should the region recognize two components of the system as regionally significant: regional corridors and urban arterials? 2. Is the state highway trust fund increase a sufficient stop gap resource for funding maintenance? Should maintenance be a regional priority or is this a local responsibility? Policy Decisions (con't) Should the region use limited resources for incremental improvement throughout the region or focus on a limited number of corridors? (Can we identify a minimum logical segment in each corridor that is fundable?) Should we develop a regional approach to funding urban arterials or leave this solely to local initiatives? 9/10/87 k RTP OVERVIEW: MAJOR CONCLUSIONS - RTP is policy balance between objectives for mobility, cost and impacts. - Growth is occurring and is desirable throughout the region: - major employment growth in suburbs - large employment base in the central city - continued strong growth in downtown Portland - Radial traffic (oriented toward downtown Portland) will con- tinue to grow despite declining share of travel demands. - Internal & Circumferential traffic growth is very significant - Transit expansion: - is significant