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Southwest LRT Update

Southwest LRT Update. Minnesota Valley Transit Authority April 30, 2014. Today’s Topics. SWLRT Overview Project Funding Next Steps/Project Timeline . Grow METRO, Arterial BRT, Base Bus System. Southwest LRT. 30,000 average weekday ridership in 2030

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Southwest LRT Update

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  1. Southwest LRT Update Minnesota Valley Transit Authority April 30, 2014

  2. Today’s Topics • SWLRT Overview • Project Funding • Next Steps/Project Timeline

  3. Grow METRO, Arterial BRT, Base Bus System

  4. Southwest LRT • 30,000 average weekday ridership in 2030 • Will provide single seat trips to downtown Minneapolis, U of M and St. Paul • Connections to the Airport and Mall of America via the Blue Line

  5. SWLRT Met Council Approved Scope • 16 new stations • Operating and Maintenance Facility located in Hopkins • Two LRT shallow tunnels in the Kenilworth Corridor • Revenue service: 2019

  6. Approved Scope & Budget

  7. SWLRT Advisory Committee Meetings 4/2 Corridor Management Committee Receive public testimony Recommendation on project scope and budget

  8. April 2 CMC Public Testimony

  9. SWLRT Met Council Meetings 4/2 Met Council Committee of the Whole SWLRT update on staff recommendation 4/9 Met Council Meeting Receive public testimony Adopt project scope and budget

  10. April 9 Met Council Public Testimony

  11. Project Scope Technical Issue #1: Retain Mitchell Road Station in Eden Prairie Technical Issue #21: Shallow LRT Tunnels over Channel in Kenilworth Corridor with a 2019 Opening

  12. Eden Prairie Alignment to Mitchell Road

  13. Southwest Station in Eden Prairie

  14. Shallow LRT Tunnels Shallow LRT Tunnels with Bridge Over Channel

  15. Kenilworth Shallow LRT Tunnel at South End

  16. Kenilworth Shallow LRT Tunnels with LRT Bridge Over Channel

  17. Kenilworth Shallow LRT Tunnels with LRT Bridge Over Channel

  18. Project Budget SWLRT Budget: $1.673B - $1.683B Cost Drivers: 16 stations, 15.8 miles of LRT with Mitchell Road Station serving as the westernmost station Shallow LRT tunnels in Kenilworth Corridor with LRT bridge over channel Advancing construction one year/opening 2019

  19. SWLRT Connects the Region’s Employment Centers

  20. SWLRT and Equity Race and Ethnicity: SWLRT as a whole is generally more diverse than the seven-county Twin Cities metro area Income: Nearly one-third of households in the corridor have incomes less than 60 percent of the median income Roughly one-fifth of the corridor population have family incomes less than 150 percent of the federal poverty threshold

  21. SWLRT and Equity Percentage of households along the SWLRT route with income less than 60% of median income

  22. SWLRT and Equity Percentage of people along the SWLRT route with incomes less than 150% of poverty threshold

  23. SWLRT and Equity Higher concentrations of minority residents are found near LRT station sites throughout the corridor Station areas where the proportion of minority residents exceeds the regional average include: Target Field: 37% Royalston: 41% Van White: 42% Blake Road: 38% Downtown Hopkins: 28% Opus: 26% Eden Prairie Town Center: 49% Southwest: 49%

  24. Project Funding

  25. Sources of Project Funding

  26. Project Budget: Sources of Funding $505 million $842 million $168 million $168 million $1.68 Billion

  27. Project Development:Local Funding Fully Committed Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority $18.6 M: All funds committed $55.8 M: All funds Committed $18.6 M: All funds committed Counties Transit Improvement Board State Total Project Development Budget: $93 million

  28. Peer “New Starts” Project Development and Engineering Projects March 2014 Status Minneapolis – St. Paul, MN Seattle, WA Vancouver, WA Boston, MA Baltimore, MD Maryland Denver, CO Durham, NC Los Angeles, CA San Diego, CA Fort Worth, TX Houston, TX Orlando, FL Project Development (PD) Engineering

  29. New Starts Projects in FTA Pipeline 2013

  30. New Starts Projects in FTA Pipeline 2014

  31. New Starts Projects in FTA Pipeline 2015

  32. Next Steps/Project Timeline

  33. Municipal Consent Process Met Council / Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority Hold Joint Open House and Public Hearing May 29, 2014 Met Council Submits Municipal Consent Plans to Cities and County April 22, 2014 Cities/County Approve Plans within 45 Days of the Met Council/Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority Joint Open House and Public Hearing Completed by July 14, 2014 Cities/County hold Open Houses and Public Hearings

  34. Southwest LRT Development Timeline

  35. Invite Us To Your Events! • Neighborhoods / Community centers • ADA community • Major employers • Chambers of Commerce • Hospitals • Schools • Libraries

  36. SWLRT Project Office on Wheels

  37. METRO Green Line

  38. More Information Online: www.SWLRT.org Email: SWLRT@metrotransit.org Twitter: www.twitter.com/southwestlrt

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