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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Tim Weidner, P.E., Engineering Coordinator
DATE: March 12, 2020
SUBJECT:
A Resolution to execute the Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Aurora, Illinois and Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), Chicago, Illinois for the Access to Transit - Aurora Transportation Center (ATC) East Platform Parking Lot Enhancement.
PURPOSE:
This agreement shall allow the City to make the proposed key improvements to the ATC E parking lot per the recommendations from the RTA Access to Transit Implementation Plan (April 2016).
BACKGROUND:
The City sought the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's (CMAP) and Regional Transportation Authority's (RTA) assistance to increase Metra and Pace ridership by enhancing the walkability and bikeablility at the Aurora Transit Center (ATC). This led the City to apply for and receive the Local Technical Assistant grant (LTA) with CMAP & RTA back in 2014. The initiation led to a study and thus "Aurora Access to Transit Improvement Plan" was developed in April 2016.
To put the recommendations from the plan into action, the City sought the RTA - Access to Transit Program Grant in August 2018. The City was selected/approved for the RTA program. RTA, on behalf of the City, applied for Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Federal Funds in early 2019 for the same project and was approved in October 2019. CMAQ's funding is an 80/20 split (80% federal, 20% local). The 20% local share shall be divided into half, with RTA taking 50% of that 20% local share to make the improvements.
DISCUSSION:
The proposed Aurora Transportation Center (ATC) East Platform Parking lot is located west of the R.R track and north of Spring Street and west of Lincoln Avenue parking lot. The proposed improvements include installing a new sidewalk at the Spring Street entrance along with way finding signage; adding additional parking spaces; creating Kiss and Ride area by reconfiguring the parking drive aisle...
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