Transportation Outlook 2035 Amendment - Draft Preferred Alternative

Transportation Outlook 2035 Amendment
After several months of public outreach and involvement, the BRTB has finalized an amendment to the Baltimore region’s long-range transportation plan, Transportation Outlook 2035: Creating a Blueprint for the Baltimore Region’s Future.  >> View BRTB Resolution #09-14 approving the amendment

This amendment proposes $225 million in funding for regional transit projects, beginning in the year 2020.

The mix of projects includes:

• Green Line Transit - Preliminary Engineering
• Park-and-Ride spaces - averaging $10,000/space for 2,000 spaces in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford, and Howard counties
• Carroll County – transit vehicles and amenities
• Intermodal Facilities /MARC stations/ Transit Oriented Development (TOD) – 
  • $10 million/facility average, 3 of 4 (smaller type facilities such as bus to bus: Central Maryland Transit Operations Facility (CMTOF), Columbia, Snowden Square, Parole)
  • $20 million/facility average (larger type facilities such as rail to rail or bus:  Lexington Market, or other Baltimore City location)
  • MARC station(s) not currently included in TO2035, i.e. Odenton, West Baltimore, or East Baltimore Development Initiative (EBDI))
• Dedicated bus lanes - in congested corridors such as I-695,  MD 152, US 29, MD 2
  

In response to public comment, the projects included in this amendment focus on ways to make the regional transit system more user-friendly and attractive to a broader segment of the region’s population and workforce. This amendment does not affect currently funded projects in Transportation Outlook 2035 which was adopted in November 2007.


>> Download the draft TO2035 amendment (pdf, 175 kb)

>> View Draft Scenarios (pdf, 20 kb)


Public Review and Comment A public input period was held from Tuesday, December 16, 2008 through Friday, January 23, 2009.  During this time, two public meetings were held on Thursday, January 15, 2009 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. or 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the BMC offices.

>> View all public comments received, Final 1-28-09 (pdf, 381 kb)

>> Download matrix of public comments and BRTB responses (pdf, 66 kb)



For more information:

Todd Lang, hbloom@baltometro.org or 410-732-9566.

Regina Aris, raris@baltometro.org or 410-732-9572.




Links within this web site:

Press release about amendment process

Learn more about eligible transit projects

Federal Requirements for Long Range Planning

The Transportation Outlook 2035 Update is an easy way to learn more about the planning process, find out how you can get involved, and stay up-to-date on upcoming activities and outreach events.

Recent issues:

• January 2009
  
  
• August 2008

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Last Updated: 12/14/2009