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Home My WebLink AboutTIC 2018-09-24 Item 3D - SCATBd - 7/17/18 Meeting Summary / 8/1/18 Meeting AgendaSOUTH COUNTY AREA TRANSPORTATION BOARD (SCATBD) Meeting Summary —Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Introductions ii. Reports: Chair Johnson attended the Assoc. of WA Cities, state conference where sessions were video-taped and are available on line. CM Peloza attended the National Assoc. of Cities event that occurred the same week. CM Hougardy: KC Regional Transit Committee does not meet in July and August. The committee is working on Metro Connects implementation and cities that don't have last mile community connections. All cities here should have access to Metro's Community Connections Program that will partner with cities to develop connections to transit. Mark Hoppen: Normandy Park is in that process, we are systemically connecting the city of NP, using different modes. Not a simple thing, there is a complex process of analysis, survey and public interaction to develop services. Very exciting. iii. June meeting summary: approved iv. PSRC Regional Integrated Transit Network: The PSRC's Regional Transportation Plan includes an integrated 2040 transit network map. The PSRC presented a map illustrating fixed route transit types: Frequent, Express and Local. The maps illustrated 2018 vs. 2040 transit in the south area of King County. Heat maps illustrating plan performance and accessibility to people and places — illustrating #of people that live within 1/2 mile of transit service. Questions: Pushing out transit into S King County 20 years from now, can't we push that sooner? A: Our point and time is 2040 for planning but transit is coming on line sooner. Metro will be rolling out a schedule for rapid ride implementation that will be balanced geographically. We plan on partnering with cities to implement as soon as possible. Q: More detailed schedule for Metro's implementation? Will be announced with our budget but not everything is funded. Q: Is there an application that tells you how to get there on transit? Google map with transit app's. One Bus Away and also Metro's Trip Planner. Q: Are you looking at autonomous vehicles? Trying to acknowledge in our plan, update every four years and are looking at that further and will be able to update it then. Q: Could we do any of this sooner? Important questions, with implementation of GMA one of the solutions to secure affordable housing is to move farther from Seattle where more transit is needed and this is happening more quickly than transit agencies can come up with. Transit is a solution to our housing affordability being decreased by our markets. A: Washington State is among the lowest to receive transit funding in the country. People are moving further out and spending the delta on transportation. Q: Find it frustrating when looking at maps that three major south King County cities Covington, Black Diamond and Maple Valley — not on the map. We don't exist while traffic is increasing and people are moving to Maple Valley. We've got to be on the map. Q: This group is supposed to initiate interest in getting transportation to our communities. What do you recommend, should we get our legislators talking to PSRC to prioritize this further? 2040 is too late. A: You are already part of PSRC. Your voice continuing to talk about that. Funding shortfall in terms of local (transit) revenue. State funding for transit. Q: Not only funding but prioritization. We don't want all the money to go to Seattle. A: We know that people want service faster. We are working to deliver ST3 early. Federal Way opens 2024, then extends to Tacoma. Buses will change routes once that opens. Also looking at early implementation for buses to run on shoulders on shoulders on state highways. Metro has a capacity problem to service and store buses and it is hard to find drivers. 107 Q: One of the issues for the south end is that we pay for things we don't ever see. Extra property taxes on my house and I don't have a bus within a mile of my house. ST3 had to pass to get ST2 to work. Funding and taxing people more is not the solution, you will see backlash at the polls this November. A: The entire bus and transit system is under stress from a lot of riders and huge demand. Getting rail to Federal Way by 2024 will allow Metro to restructure bus service to get more access to light rail. We can address Algona's needs earlier. Q: Parking is insufficient at the park and rides. Is anyone looking at the water and increasing passenger ferry service from the south area? People would be happier riding a ferry instead of sitting on 1-5. A: Yes, recent passenger ferry summit was held and there is interest in expanding water taxi service in Lake WA and in Puget Sound. Q: Last week at the (PSRC's) Transportation Policy Board, there was a considerable amount of federal funding allocated to a transit agency. The issue of allocating funds to transit vs. local roads is an issue. Q: Kent should have had a garage from ST2 but we may get our garage in 5 years. This group (SCATBd) keeps pressure on Sound Transit and Metro to deliver. A: Everybody here is involved in putting together PSRC's plans. And those plans are not just about Seattle. An important aspect of the PSRC's planning is the development of economies in each of the cities so people don't have to travel 80 miles to get to work. Q: Each city needs to look at their own planning codes to see if businesses and jobs can locate in our cities. Widening the freeway in Seattle is not an option. We have to look at getting jobs away from Seattle to spread them around. Q: Concern with 2040 plan and financing all that is identified. There isn't going to be enough money to build ST3. We all know what is happening to projects out to bid that are coming back with much higher costs. v. WSDOT I-5 System Partnership: Thomas Noyes, WSDOT described the collaboration of cities, WSDOT and others planning for the preservation and redevelopment of I-5. 25 transportation agencies, 10 tribal governments. Washington State is ranked 10th in the US for the number of hours spent in traffic. 1100 people moving here every week. I-5 critical for import/exports and freight. WSDOT's process in in the goals and objectives stage, not at a place where we are identifying projects yet. Ultimate goal is to develop a master plan and projects for I- 5. Not just I-5 but all the connections to it. Near term actions 0-4 years to 2022, mid-term projects 5-17 years to 2035 and long-term program 18-32 years to 2050. Near term action agenda is underway, report to be released in 2019. Future work will be developing environmental and master plan. Q: Can you give some examples of what people are offering to solve some of these problems? A: Have not heard any specific strategies as the effort is engaged in scoping the problem. Tumwater, Olympia talking about metering to enter I-5. Buses are running on shoulders in Snohomish County. Q: The environmental data that is about to emerge from the POS SAMP and other air quality studies around SeaTac Airport should be incorporated into near term understanding. Travelers to I-5 connect at SR 518. A: WSDOT is conducting a study on SR 518 and will be presenting about that here this year. Q: Is WSDOT looking to allow buses to run on shoulders on 1-5? A: Yes, looking at I-5 and 405. I-5 is not meeting HOV performance target of 95% traveling at 45 mph. Developing new jobs in south end cities like Renton or Kent doesn't still solve the problem. We are going to need something to get to our further out areas. WSDOT is expanding the conversation beyond I-5 to address congestion for people getting to jobs. WSDOT is also looking at buses running on shoulders on state highways. vi. Public comment: None. Meeting adjourned 9:00 a.m. 108 SOUTH COUNTY AREA TRANSPORTATION BOARD (SCATBd) MEETING AGENDA Tuesday August 21, 2018 9:00 — 11:00 a.m. SeaTac City Hall 4800 South 188th Street SeaTac 1. Open Meeting (Breakfast provided by the City of Pacific) • Introductions • Approve July SCATBd Meeting Summary Action 9:00 a.m. 2. Reports and Communications • Chair or Vice Chair • Participant Updates (from RTC and Other Regional Committees) Report and Discussion 9:05 a.m. 3. Stewardship of WA Transportation System Marshall Elizer, Assistant Secretary Multimodal Development and Delivery Washington State Department of Transportation Report and Discussion 9:15 a.m. 4. One Center City Update Paul Roybal, King County Metro Transit Report and Discussion 9:45 a.m. 5. • Public Comment • Next SCATBd Meeting: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 • Breakfast will be provided by the City of Renton Discussion 10:15 a.m. 109