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Objectives |
SAFETY: Transportation by all modes will be safe |
- Reduce the number and severity of crashes and safety incidents for all modes
- Reduce serious injuries and fatalities from transportation
- Make investments and support initiatives that help protect transportation customers, employees, and the public from safety and security threats
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SYSTEM PRESERVATION: Maintain and modernize the transportation system and plan for its resiliency |
- Maintain the transportation system, including roadway, transit, and active transportation infrastructure, in a state of good repair
- Modernize transportation infrastructure across all modes
- Prioritize projects that support planned response capability to existing or future extreme conditions (sea level rise, flooding, and other natural and security-related man-made impacts)
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CAPACITY MANAGEMENT AND MOBILITY: Use existing facility capacity more efficiently and increase transportation options |
- Improve access to and accessibility of all modes, especially transit and active transportation
- Support implementation of roadway management and operations strategies to improve travel reliability, mitigate congestion, and support non-single-occupant vehicle travel options
- Emphasize capacity management through low-cost investments; prioritize projects that focus on lower-cost operations/management-type improvements
such as intersection improvements, transit priority, and Complete Streets solutions
- Improve reliability of transit
- Increase percentage of population and employment within one-quarter mile of transit stations and stops
- Support community-based and private-initiative services and programs to meet first- and last-mile, reverse commute, and other non-traditional transit/ transportation needs, including those of people 75 years old or older and people with a disability
- Support strategies to better manage automobile and bicycle parking capacity and usage at transit stations
- Fund improvements to bicycle/pedestrian networks aimed at creating a connected network of bicycle and accessible sidewalk facilities (both regionally and in neighborhoods) by expanding existing facilities and closing gaps
- Increase percentage of population and places of employment with access to facilities on the bicycle network
- Eliminate bottlenecks on freight network; improve freight reliability
- Enhance freight intermodal connections
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TRANSPORTATION EQUITY: Ensure that all people receive comparable benefits from, and are not disproportionately burdened by, MPO investments, regardless of race, color, national origin, age, income, ability, or sex |
- Prioritize MPO investments that benefit equity populations*
- Minimize potential harmful environmental, health, and safety effects of MPO-funded projects for all equity populations*
- Promote investments that support transportation for all ages (age-friendly communities)
- Promote investments that are accessible to all people regardless of ability
*Equity populations include people who identify as minority, have limited English proficiency, are 75 years old or older or 17 years old or younger, or have a disability; or are members of low-income households.
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CLEAN AIR/SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: Create an environmentally friendly transportation system |
- Reduce greenhouse gases generated in Boston region by all transportation modes
- Reduce other transportation-related pollutants
- Minimize negative environmental impacts of the transportation system
- Support land use policies consistent with smart, healthy, and resilient growth
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ECONOMIC VITALITY: Ensure our transportation network provides a strong foundation for economic vitality |
- Respond to mobility needs of the workforce population
- Minimize burden of housing/transportation costs for residents in the region
- Prioritize transportation investments that serve residential, commercial, and logistics targeted development sites and “Priority Places” identified in MBTA’s Focus 40 plan
- Prioritize transportation investments consistent with compact-growth strategies of the regional land-use plan
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