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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:
Harvey S. Bloom, hbloom@baltometro.org or 410-732-9566.
Regina Aris, raris@baltometro.org or 410-732-9572.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 27 February 2009 )
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Transportation Planning 
About the BRTB
Transportation Outlook 2035
TO2035 Amendment Process
Eligible Transit Projects
