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Genesee Transportation Council

EileenF — 2014-09-09T16:59:43Z

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Genesee Transportation Council

EileenF — 2014-09-09T16:59:13Z

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Genesee Transportation Council

JodyBinnix — 2014-09-09T16:06:13Z

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Genesee Transportation Council

JodyBinnix — 2014-09-09T15:38:42Z

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Genesee Transportation Council

JodyBinnix — 2014-09-09T15:33:16Z

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- We've all seen how new pavement ends on one side of the county line and potholes begin on the other. We've also seen how train stations, bus links, and airports fail to connect. To minimize problems just like this between jurisdictions, in 1991 Congress enacted the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), which mandated all metropolitan areas with a population over 50,000 have a metropolitan planning organization to qualify for federal highway and transit funds and to coordinate their programs. The Governor of New York State designated the Genesee Transportation Council as that organization responsible for planning in the nine-county Genesee-Finger Lakes region including Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates counties.	+ A safe, efficient, reliable transportation system isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity. Our highways, bridges, public transportation system, sidewalks, and trails move people to work, kids to school, older adults to medical appointments, and products to businesses.
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- Because of the size of the nine-county region, the primary focus of the Council's planning centers on the developed area surrounding the City of Rochester known as the Rochester Transportation Management Area, and includes all of Monroe County plus the adjacent developed areas of Livingston, Ontario, and Wayne counties.	+ Federal law requires every metropolitan area with a population of over 50,000 to have a designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to qualify for the receipt of federal highway and transit funds. GTC is the designated MPO responsible for transportation policy, planning, and investment decision making in the nine-county Genesee-Finger Lakes Region and the Rochester metropolitan area. The nine-county region includes the counties of Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates.
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- The Council produces and maintains three major products, including the Long Range Transportation Plan, the Transporation Improvement Program, and a project by project Unified Planning Work Program. A smaller state-administered, federal Transportation Enhancements Program provides federal funding for non-traditional transportation projects such as bicycle, pedestrian, and trail facilities; historic preservation; landscaping; streetscaping; and other scenic beautification projects.	+ The mission of GTC is to maximize the contribution of the transportation network to the social and economic vitality of the region.
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- In recent years, the Transporation Equity Act for the 21 Century (TEA-21) has superceded ISTEA and now governs federal transportation spending. Of note, it recommends one cent of each dollar spent on transportation, a huge portion of federal discretionary spending, go to non-motor vehicle programs like the very paths we skate and bicycle, the Erie Canalway Trail, the Genesee Valley Greenway, the River Trails, and roadways explicitly marked and unmarked, as found on Rochester's newly reconstructed Avenues. These Acts helped create and maintain these paths we like and use.	+ GTC must, at a minimum produce and maintain three major transportation planning documents to continue to receive federal transportation funding: + + '''Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)''' + + The LRTP must address no less than a 20-year horizon and lead to an integrated multimodal surface transportation system, giving priority to those elements that serve regional, statewide, and national goals. Beyond infrastructure preservation and maintenance, the LRTP must explicitly consider transportation system management and operations capabilities. The LRTP must be fiscally constrained in that system-level estimates of the costs of the recommendations contained in it cannot exceed reasonably expected revenues. The LRTP must be updated no less than every four years. + + '''Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP)''' + + The UPWP allocates federal transportation planning funds for activities conducted by GTC, its member agencies, and other local municipalities to fulfill federal metropolitan planning requirements. Projects included in the UPWP advance the recommendations of the LRTP into more specific and defined plans and programs. + + '''Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)''' + + The TIP is a four-year, fiscally-constrained capital improvement program that lists all federally funded highway, bridge, transit, intelligent transportation system, bicycle, and pedestrian transportation improvements in the region. Projects included in the TIP implement the recommendations of the LRTP. + + The current multi-year federal transportation authorization bill – Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) – was enacted on July 6, 2012. The new authorization bill establishes, for the first time, performance-based planning and programming to increase accountability and transparency. All GTC activities are responsive to mandates and guidelines including, but not limited to, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and environmental justice considerations. +

Genesee Transportation Council

JodyBinnix — 2014-09-09T15:29:42Z

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Genesee Transportation Council

JoannaLicata — 2009-01-03T16:53:15Z

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Genesee Transportation Council

JohnLam — 2006-01-26T00:16:27Z

expounded a bit; needs more; been on a transportation binge :-)

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	+ \|\|<bgcolor='#E0E0FF'>'''Location'''\|\| + \|\|Suite 101, 65 West Broad St, Rochester NY 14614\|\| + \|\|<bgcolor='#E0E0FF'>'''Telephone'''\|\| + \|\|585 232 6240\|\| + \|\|<bgcolor='#E0E0FF'>'''Website'''\|\| + \|\|[http://www.gtcmpo.org/]\|\| + + We've all seen how new pavement ends on one side of the county line and potholes begin on the other. We've also seen how train stations, bus links, and airports fail to connect. To minimize problems just like this between jurisdictions, in 1991 Congress enacted the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), which mandated all metropolitan areas with a population over 50,000 have a metropolitan planning organization to qualify for federal highway and transit funds and to coordinate their programs. The Governor of New York State designated the Genesee Transportation Council as that organization responsible for planning in the nine-county Genesee-Finger Lakes region including Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates counties. + + Because of the size of the nine-county region, the primary focus of the Council's planning centers on the developed area surrounding the City of Rochester known as the Rochester Transportation Management Area, and includes all of Monroe County plus the adjacent developed areas of Livingston, Ontario, and Wayne counties. + + The Council produces and maintains three major products, including the Long Range Transportation Plan, the Transporation Improvement Program, and a project by project Unified Planning Work Program. A smaller state-administered, federal Transportation Enhancements Program provides federal funding for non-traditional transportation projects such as bicycle, pedestrian, and trail facilities; historic preservation; landscaping; streetscaping; and other scenic beautification projects. + + In recent years, the Transporation Equity Act for the 21 Century (TEA-21) has superceded ISTEA and now governs federal transportation spending. Of note, it recommends one cent of each dollar spent on transportation, a huge portion of federal discretionary spending, go to non-motor vehicle programs like the very paths we skate and bicycle, the Erie Canalway Trail, the Genesee Valley Greenway, the River Trails, and roadways explicitly marked and unmarked, as found on Rochester's newly reconstructed Avenues. These Acts helped create and maintain these paths we like and use. + + \|\|<bgcolor='#E0E0FF'>'''See Also'''\|\| + \|\|["RGRTA"]\|\| + + [[Comments]]