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CIDNA TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE Transportation Committee Description and Information: downloadable pdf doc Transit Committee Contacts: Art Higinbotham - Chair Ed Ferlauto - Associate Chair Transportation Committee's Report at Annual Meeting, May 2011 Click here to read the report DEIS Draft Table of Contents April 2009 Resolution Regarding Mitigation Measures along the Proposed Southwest Light Rail Transitway (click for Resolution pdf) - passed by CIDNA at its Jan. 5, 2010, board meeting regarding:
2) requests for mitigating these issues, 3) including the costs to do so as line items in the budget and not to hope that leftover contingency funds will cover such costs. The key point of this resolution, which has the backing of Hennepin County (as stated by Gail Dorfman), is that the baseline for determining environmental impacts in the Kenilworth Corridor is zero freight rail traffic. Serendipitously, the recent change in stance signaled by the FTA (click for FTA doc) to shift focus from strict cost guidelines (as determined by the Bush administration) to environmental and community benefits in selecting projects for funding dovetails nicely with our neighborhood's positions on mitigation. Of course, depending on when the new guidelines are issued and what they are, projects currently in the planning process could warrant reevaluation on dramatically different criteria. We'll obviously be keeping a close eye on further developments. Southwest Corridor LRT
CIDNA Resolution: Southwest Light Rail Resolution/Alternative 3C Improvements (pdf) CIDNA Resolution/LRT Largest Population (pdf) Technical Memorandum No. 6 Ridership Forecasting Methodology and Results, Sept. 9, 2009 (Click here to read the memo.) |
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