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Amendment #1 to the 2018 Updated Raleigh Urbanized Area and Wake County Locally Coordinated Human Services Public Transportation Plan including the creation of the Mobility Coordination Committee
Crystal Odum, MPO Staff
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The 2018 Updated Raleigh Urbanized Area Coordinated Human Services Public Transportation Plan is a federally required plan that sets regional priorities for transportation investments and initiatives for human services and public transit coordination guiding funding and service development for transportation projects supporting elderly, disabled and low-income individuals.
Updated in 2018 to serve as the federally required update to the 2013 Locally Coordinated Human Services Public Transportation Plan, the 2018 updated plan (adopted in February 2019) is being amended to make administrative revisions that include:
* A name-change from the Locally Coordinated Human Services Public Transportation Plan to the Coordinated Public Transit-Human Services Transportation Plan to be consistent with the Federal Transit Administration's terminology;
* Clarification of recommended Roles and Responsibilities;
* Clarification of reporting structure; and a
* Timeline modification for implementation of the Mobility Management Program
The scope of the plan covers Wake County and the entirety of the Raleigh Urbanized Area, which includes a sizable portion of Johnston County and small portions of Harnett, Franklin and Granville Counties and serves as the official plan that informs the distribution of federal Section 5310 (Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities) funding throughout the Raleigh Urbanized Area. The plan, which was developed in concert with the larger Wake Bus Plan, will also be used to recommend priorities for Wake Transit funding to human service transportation needs within Wake County.
One of the recommendations of the Plan is to formalize the Coordinated Plan Working Group to establish a Mobility Coord...
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