All Stations Accessibility Program - Oak Park, Ridgeland

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The degree to which a project improves regional access to the region’s key destinations. Including jobs, retail, healthcare, recreation, and education.

The project improvements to existing assets to make them partially or fully accessible. Including station/stop and area improvements, vehicle accessibility, and accessible communications.

The project impact to ratings from the FTA Transit Economic Requirements Model (TERM).

The project’s minor or major benefits to riders and what proportion of the agency’s riders will benefit from it.

The project impact on overall capacity, reflecting current and planned levels of utilization.

The project impact on reductions or offsets to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated from transit operations.

Project impacts on land use and development, construction, and long-term jobs.

The distribution of project benefits to location(s) identified under the USDOT Justice40 Program.

The project impact to maintenance or improvement of exposure to risk for riders/employees and the project impact to security enhancement.

The project impact on operating costs.

The project impact to maintenance or improvement of exposure to risk for riders/employees and the project impact to security enhancement.

Project impact on maintenance or improvement of service speed and reliability, considering both direct and indirect impacts.

If required, whether or not the project complies with federal, state, local, or other regulatory mandates.

The project impact to climate benefits, such as a reduction in emissions, generated from mode shift to transit and away from private auto-use.

The Project impact to average vehicle ages, compared with Service board benchmarks to prioritize replacing vehicles that are beyond their useful life.

Evaluation Metric Measure
Access to Key Destinations ? Significantly improves Access to Key Destinations
Accessibility Improvement(s) ? Makes assets fully accessible
Asset Condition (FTA TERM Rating) ? Project does not have an asset rating
Benefit to Riders ? Significant benefit to riders
Capacity Benefit and Need ? Project increases capacity of transit operations near capacity
Climate Agency Operating Impacts ? Project does not effect GHG emissions
Economic Impact ? Moderate impact on economic development
Equity Based on Residential Geography ? Scores 6-8 in Justice40 metric 'Sum of Disadvantage Indicators'
Impact on Customer and Employee Safety ? Project indirectly provides safety benefit/improvement
Impact on Operating Cost ? Increase
Impact on System Security ? Project does not impact security
Impact to Service Speed/Reliability ? Moderately improves current speed/reliability
Regulatory Requirements ? Yes
Ridership/Mode Shift Impacts ? Moderately improves transit ridership
Vehicle Useful Life ? Asset is not a vehicle with a useful life

Project Description

Partial Construction funds will provide for the Oak Park & Ridgeland Stations on the Green Line.The Oak Park proposed scope of work for this station includes: Add a ramp between street level and the stationhouse; Remove the escalator from the stationhouse to the platform in addition to repositioning one set of stairs to allow wheelchair passing space and turning at platform level; Position the elevator connecting the stationhouse and platform between the two sets of stairs; and reopen the stairs and Euclid Ave. stationhouse at the east end of the platform to provide an additional exit through the existing corridor underneath the inbound tracks.The Ridgeland Green proposed scope of work for this station includes: Complete renovation and expansion of the Ridgeland Ave stationhouse to include an ADA compliant ramp between street-level and stationhouse; addition of an elevator from the stationhouse to the platform; Extension of the platform to the west to accommodate the new elevator; Extension of the platform to the east to accommodate a new platform exit stair; and provide a new exit stair and bridge over the inbound tracks to allow additional exiting at the east end of the platform.