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NOACA Governing Board Action: March 9, 2007
NOACA Board Adds 21 Projects to Long-Range Transportation Plan

At today’s NOACA Governing Board meeting, members approved adding 21 projects from Northeast Ohio, totaling $74 million, to the region’s transportation plan, Connections 2030, and six projects to the State Fiscal Years 2006 – 2009 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). Connections 2030 identifies federally funded road, bridge, transit and bikeway projects envisioned for Northeast Ohio over the next 20 years. The TIP serves as the implementation tool for the Plan, scheduling projects over a four-year period. The projects added to both Connections 2030 and the TIP today are:

  • City of Cleveland: Preliminary engineering for the alignment of Canal Road and Stones Levee replacement bridge
  • City of Fairview Park: Slope repair along SR-10 (Lorain Road) just west of West 192nd Street
  • City of Cleveland: Resurfacing I-90 from the Innerbelt Bridge to SR-2
  • City of Cleveland: Citywide resurfacing of SR-283 (Lakeshore Boulevard)
  • Geauga County Transit: The Fiscal Year 2007 Capital and Operating program, including purchase of three replacement vehicles and one new vehicle, and offering reduced fares to eligible elderly and disabled riders
  • Medina County Transit: The Fiscal Year 2007 Capital and Operating program, including purchase of two replacement vehicles and one new vehicle
In related action, the Board approved a resolution confirming that 22 projects successfully completed project planning review (PPR). NOACA conducts PPR to obtain comments from staff, committees, local governments and agencies, and the public about proposed transportation improvements and asks that project sponsors consider incorporating recommendations resulting from PPR into the project. You may review the projects processed through PPR this quarter.

NOACA also announced the schedule for the Fiscal Year 2008 Transportation for Livable Communities Initiative (TLCI). Under the TLCI, NOACA will award up to $75,000 to communities for planning studies that may eventually result in transportation projects. NOACA has allocated $1 million in its Overall Work Program for the TLCI. The Fiscal Year 2008 program will begin on March 23.