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Agenda posted before May 24, 2022
Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization
Transit Working Group Meeting
May 31, 2022, 1:00 PM (Estimated duration: 90 minutes, expected ending at 2:30 PM)
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1.
Welcome, MPO staff, 5 minutes
2. MPO Activities Update, 5 minutes
a. Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Update, Matt Genova, MPO Staff
b. Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) Update, Srilekha Murthy, MPO Staff
3. Transit Provider Items, 5 minutes
4. Format of Future Transit Working Group Meetings, Sandy Johnston, MPO Staff, 5 minutes
5. Transit Regionalization from a Municipal Perspective, Susan Barrett, Transportation Manager, Town of Lexington, and Lispeth Tibbits-Nutt, Manager of Communications, Research and Education, 128 Business Council: Update on a regionalization action plan to enhance transportation services in areas not served or not served well by fixed-route transit, 30 minutes
6.
Regional Transit Authority (RTA) Discretionary
Grant Program, Ellie
McCarthy, Manager of Transit Programs & Analysis, MassDOT Rail and Transit
Division: Presentation on innovative programs emerging from this state-funded
program designed to test innovative solutions to local mobility, 30 minutes
7. Public Comments, 5 minutes
8. Closing
and Next Steps, 5
minutes
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