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Current
Status
MTC's
Community-Based Transportation Plans:
MTC
is now providing funding for CBTPs in 25 neighborhoods around the region. For
details on the program guidelines, plans completed so far, and how to find out
whether a plan is happening in your neighborhood, see
MTC's web
page.
To find out what TALC and the Transportation Justice Working Group are doing to
help communities conducting CBTPs, contact
Jeff Hobson
with TALC or Lila
Hussain with Urban Habitat.
Caltrans
Environmental Justice Grants: Caltrans has
a new grant program to assist communities in developing fundable project
proposals. Although the program is open to community-based groups, the extensive
paperwork and state bureaucracy may make it difficult for small groups to successfully
compete for and use these funds. Partnering with a city, county, transit operator,
or other government body may be more successful. For FY 2006-2007, individual grants
of up to $250,000 are available in a total program of $1.5 million.
What You
Can Do
· Contact
MTC and your congestion management agency
(see list below) to ask that funds be allocated to conduct a community transportation plan in your
area. MTC's contact for the LTN and community transportation plans is
Therese Knudsen, or call her at 510-817-5767.
·
Contact
Caltrans
about their "Environmental Justice" and "Community-Based Planning" grants.
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