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Transportation
Enhancements
Aaron Bartlett
816/701-8238
Marc Hansen
Transportation Planner
816/701-8317
Ron Achelpohl
Assistant Director of Transportation
816/474-4240
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Transportation Infrastructure Call for Projects
AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009
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Greater Kansas City is preparing to act quickly now that President Obama has signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. As expected, the bill contains provisions for transportation projects to be selected through the metropolitan planning process. MARC held a final call for area surface transportation infrastructure projects in the metropolitan planning area Feb. 6–13, 2009, that could be eligible for money through the stimulus proposals.
Based on preliminary information from KDOT and MoDOT, MARC estimates that approximately $49 million will be available for transportation projects in the Kansas City area, with about $22 million in Kansas and $27 million in Missouri. These funds will be subject to the provisions of the existing Surface Transportation Program and must be obligated by March 10, 2010, or they will be redistributed to other states that have fully obligated their funds.
Your agency's role
MoDOT may make some Transportation Enhancements (TE) funding available to the Missouri portion of MARC's transportation planning boundary in the Kansas City area. An additional set of questions has been added to the project database form, which must be completed for each TE-eligible transportation project in order to be considered for funding through this process. This is not a call for new projects.
All supplemental project information must be submitted through the Web database by noon on Friday, March 6, 2009. Incomplete projects submittals will not considered for programming. Contact Aaron Bartlett at 816/474-4240 for more information.
Get organized on paper first before submitting additional information for TE projects
online. Use this
sample PDF form.
Project evaluation process
MARC received applications for 378 projects totaling $1.75 billion during the call for projects that ended Feb. 13. Staff is evaluating these applications in preparation for meetings of the Kansas and Missouri STP/Bridge Priorities Committees during the week of Feb. 23.
MARC will use its Total Transportation Policy Committee and programming subcommittees to develop evaluation criteria, prioritize projects and make recommendations to its board of directors as soon as early March. Once projects are approved, they will be added to the region’s Transportation Improvement Program, and project sponsors will coordinate with the Kansas and Missouri Departments of Transportation to complete agreements, finalize plans and bid projects for construction or implementation. MARC is working with federal and state partners to make sure that local governments and other project sponsors have the best possible opportunity to make good use of these new transportation funds.
Schedule
Here is the remaining schedule to allocate American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for projects in the MARC region. All meetings will be held in the MARC offices at 600 Broadway, Suite 200, in Kansas City, Mo. Questions? Contact Ron Achelpohl at 816/474-4240.
| DATE | ACTIVITY |
| February 20, 2009 | Noon – Deadline for re-prioritizing current transportation applications |
| February 23, 2009 | 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. – Missouri STP/Bridge Priorities Committee |
| February 25, 2009 | 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. – Kansas STP/Bridge Priorities Committee |
| March 3, 2009 | 9:30 a.m. – MARC Total Transportation Policy Committee |
Related information
Get organized on paper first before submitting transportation projects
online. Use this
sample PDF form.
All submittals must be entered into
the Web database.
Anticipated transportation project evaluation criteria
Summary of
transportation stimulus projects in database (pdf, updated Feb. 3, 2009)
Federal stimulus legislation and proposals