IV.
IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING
TASK 4.07
Transportation
CDTC staff continues to work with the
Access Transit staff and county agencies to assure success of the
brokerage. CDTC and CDTA staff will
continue in 2005-06 to seek additional brokerage opportunities in other service
areas.
CDTC continues to assist CDTA in its
development of several related initiatives, including the successful regional
program using state funds (Community Solutions for Transportation) and the
federal Jobs Access / Reverse Commute program.
These efforts will continue.
A review of Special Transportation
Needs treatment in New Visions will produce material for discussion in the New
Visions 2030 forums.
CDTC will participate in the
TASK 4.17 Arterial
Management Planning
Formal arterial management efforts were modest during 2004-05. Staff expects to revisit various CDTC
arterial management guidelines in 2005-06, including 'standards' for arterial
capacity and levels-of-service.
Additionally, work will begin on an urban arterial version of the
"level of compatibility" indices developed in 1995 for suburban
settings.
NYSDOT and CDTC, along with CDTA, the
NYSTA and other major players, completed the development of a "regional
architecture" for the Capital District ITS deployment in 2003-04. The architecture was formally adopted by CDTC
in December 2004.
TASK 4.62 Transit Operations Planning
CDTA will continue to conduct planning
effort under this task.
TASK 4.67 Bikeway / Pedestrian
Facility Planning
The Bike and Pedestrian Transportation
Task Force remained active during 2004-05.
Activities and products included provision of technical support to the
Saratoga Heritage Trail program and involvement in CDTC's Spot Improvement
Program,
Under this task heading, CDTC staff
will continue to offer community assistance related to bike and pedestrian
planning issues, including the broader category of "traffic calming"
options. Additionally, CDTC will
continue its cooperative work with county traffic safety committees and the
Governor's Traffic Safety Board to coordinate attention on bike and pedestrian
safety issues.
For 2005-06, it is anticipated that
the task force will assist in fleshing out a candidate “big idea / big ticket”
bike/ped regional greenway initiative for use in the New Visions 2030 public
dialogue.
TASK 4.72
NYSDOT continues project planning and
development work for a number of projects on the CDTC
TASK 4.97
During 2004-05, the