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Agenda posted before 9:30 AM, April 11, 2025

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

April 17, 2025, 10:00 AM (Estimated duration: 2 hours and 57 minutes, expected ending at 12:57 PM)

Please note:     This meeting will be followed by a Unified Planning Work Program Committee meeting beginning at approximately 2:00 PM.

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Meeting Agenda

1.       Introductions, 5 minutes  

2.       Chair’s Report, 2 minutes

3.       Executive Director’s Report, 5 minutes  

4.       Public Comments, 10 minutes  

5.       Committee Chairs’ Reports, 5 minutes

6.       Action Item: Approval of March 6, 2025, Meeting Minutes, 5 minutes (posted)

7.       Action Item: Work Scope—Understanding Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Demographics and Ridership Changes, Joe Delorto, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve the work scope for Understanding MBTA Demographics and Ridership Changes, which will analyze qualitative and quantitative data to understand how demographic changes in the MBTA region have affected transit ridership over the past 20-30 years, 5 minutes (posted)

8.       Action Item: Work Scope—MBTA State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2026 National Transit Database: Data Collection and Analysis, Bradley Putnam, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve the work program to develop estimates of passenger-miles traveled and unlinked trips for various MBTA modes, 5 minutes (posted)

9.       Action Item: Federal Fiscal Years (FFYs) 2025–29 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Amendment Eleven, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to release FFYs 2025–29 TIP Amendment Eleven for a 21-day public comment period, 20 minutes (to be posted)

10.   Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Capital Investment Plan (CIP), Michelle Scott, MassDOT: Presentation and discussion on MassDOT’s CIP development process and details about the upcoming FY 2026–2030 CIP, 30 minutes

11.   MBTA TIP Projects Overview, Mike Malia, MBTA: Presentation and discussion on the MBTA’s projects included in the TIP, 30 minutes

12.   Action Item: Draft FFYs 2026–30 TIP Document, Release for Public Review, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to release the Draft FFYs 2026–30 TIP document for a 30-day public comment period, 30 minutes (to be posted)

13.   Vision Zero Update, Ali Kleyman, MPO Staff: Presentation and discussion on updates to the MPO’s Vision Zero Action Plan, 20 minutes

14.   Members’ Items: Reports and notices by MPO members, including regional concerns and local community issues, 5 minutes