Forest Park Branch Corridor Development Office

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Each capital project is measured on 15 evaluation metrics to better understand its impact on the region. Learn more about the metrics and see a legend for all measures here.

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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 i
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Significantly improves Access to Key Destinations

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Accessibility Improvement(s) i
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Makes assets fully accessible

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Asset Condition (FTA TERM Rating) i
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Asset(s) rated below 2

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Benefit to Riders i
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Project does not impact riders

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Capacity Benefit and Need i
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Project increases capacity of transit operations near capacity

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Climate Agency Operating Impacts i
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No reduction in emission

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Economic Impact i
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Small impact on economic development

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Equity Based on Residential Geography i
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Scores 6-8 in Justice40 metric 'Sum of Disadvantage Indicators'

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Impact on Customer and Employee Safety i
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Project has no impact on safety

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Impact on Operating Cost i
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No effect on operating cost or cost change undetermined

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Impact on System Security i
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Project maintains or replaces existing level of security

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Impact to Service Speed/Reliability i
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Moderately improves current speed/reliability

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Regulatory Requirements i
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No regulatory requirements met for this project

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Ridership/Mode Shift Impacts i
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Moderately improves transit ridership

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Vehicle Useful Life i
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Asset is not a vehicle with a useful life

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Project Description

In order to successfully and efficiently leverage the reconstruction of the Blue Line Forest Park Branch and the I-290 interstate, which lie in the same transportation corridor footprint, the jurisdictional authorities for the facilities and right of way propose to create a partnership to address the safety, mobility and condition of the corridor. CMAP, CTA and IDOT will work to create and implement a unified program vision. The Project requires a unified interagency approach and must adopt solutions in the corridor that leverage the expertise and innovations from a broad group of state and local stakeholders. A joint partnership facilitated by CMAP and developed alongside the Program Partners would allow the project stakeholders to advance and accelerate the I-290/Blue Line Corridor Program by implementing a program framework that fosters interagency collaboration, leverages stakeholder expertise and utilizes a Program Management Office to provide critical technical support for project sequencing, financing, coordination and public engagement.