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Next Meeting
Our April meeting is our “30th Anniversary Happy
Hour Party” is Tuesday, April 12 from 6-8pm.
Note that this is a different time and location than
our normal meetings. Bump ‘n Grind
will host
us. They are an easy two-block walk from the Silver
Spring metro station and transit center. Their address
is 1200 East-West Highway. Nearby public parking
garages are at 1315 East-West Highway, 1133 East-
West Highway, and at the Kennett Street Garage.
Their menu includes beer, wine, coffee, burritos, pas
-
tries, etc. They will contribute 10% of sales to ACT for
the 6-8pm hours that evening — so come HUNGRY
and THIRSTY!
Here is a link to the venue’s details:
http://bumpngrind.co/
We will also have a $1 raffle — 6 for $5 — for transit-
related prizes
Please bring at least one friend with you and buy lots
of raffle tickets.
For meeting updates check our website (www.act
-
fortransit.org) and Facebook page (www.facebook.
com/actfortransit).
Our next meetings will return to our usual meeting
space at the Silver Soring Civic Building. Please save
the dates for:
Tuesday, May 10, 7:30-9pm
Speaker Program TBD
Tuesday, June 14, 7:30-9pm
Speaker Program TBD
The newsletter of the Action Committee for Transit of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Inside This Issue
Bike to Work Day 7
On Friday May 20, 2016 Commuter Connections and
the WABA invite you to celebrate bicycling.
Envisioning the Purple Line Forum #2 7
Mark your calendar for Purple Line NOW’s second
forum in our Envisioning the Purple Line Series.
Hogan OKay’s Purple Line Contractor 3
Governor Larry Hogan gave preliminary approval for
the selection of Purple Line Transit Partners.
Making Vision Zero Work in Montgomery Co.
6
Vision Zero is a goal to eliminate traffic fatalities by a
specific date.
Pedestrian Super Hero 5
Who needs Batman or Superman? Be inspired by this
viral video.
President’s Letter 2
A new logo and future for the organization.
Purple Line Gets Achievement Award for EIS 3
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has be
-
stowed the 2015 Outstanding Achievement Award for
Excellence in Environmental Document Preparation to
the Purple Line project
Transit Commuters Get Permanent Tax Benefi
ts
A Big Win for Metro 5
The most significant effect of the OA&TE Act is a
provision that (1) puts transit commuter tax benefits at
parity with commuter parking tax benefits.
What about the FAST Act? 4
President Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface
Transportation Act into law. What is it all about?
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As you may have noticed, ACT now has a new
logo. Our previous logo, designed by Neil Greene,
has served us well. We wanted to mark our 30th
anniversary year with a new logo that would show
how our mission and goals have grown over the
years. Neil’s handsome logo featured a train in
an urban setting, but no pedestrians or cyclists or
other modes of transportation.
ACT’s mission now includes much more than the
Purple Line and transit throughout the area. We
also work to make our streets and neighborhoods
as convenient for people on foot and on bike as
they are for those in cars, and we advocate for
land use and zoning that allows as many people as
possible to use transit.
Board member Dan Reed has created a logo that
includes a mass transit vehicle as well as a pedes-
trian and a cyclist. This logo is a small image of
the future we are working for: one where mass
transit, walking and cycling are easy and conve-
nient for everyone.
In the 30 years since ACT was founded, the DC
area has grown enormously. We are now a much
denser, larger metropolitan area. Our need for
transit of all kinds - Metrorail, light rail, buses,
MARC, bus rapid transit - has grown accordingly.
After decades of delayed maintenance and still no
dedicated funding, Metrorail is at a crucial point.
MARC service cries out for expansion. In the first
months of 2016, ACT has:
• testified in Annapolis about Metrorail & Metro-
bus service
• testified in Annapolis in favor of more transit
upcounty, specifically MARC
• participated in the planning process for upcounty
MARC stations, making sure that walkability will
be improved
Over the past 30 years, it has also become clear
that walkable and bikeable neighborhoods are
where people of all ages and generations would
like to live. These livable communities are not
only more desirable, but tend to have higher rates
of transit use. The growth and expansion of walk-
ability and bicycling has been hampered by road
design focused on moving cars, not people. For
several years, ACT has been advocating for Vision
Zero (see separate article in this issue), a highly
successful program which not only changes traf-
fic laws but also redesigns roads and sidewalks to
make them safer and more convenient for people
on foot and on bicycles. In January of 2016,
Montgomery County became the first county in
the U.S. to adopt Vision Zero. To date, ACT has
• met with Council staff and lobbied for Vision
Zero
• urged the County Council to promptly set a tar-
get date to achieve zero deaths
By October 1, 2016, the Montgomery County
Department of Transportation must provide the
County Council with a report as to how the Coun-
ty can enact Vision Zero. ACT plans to work hard
to make sure that Vision Zero is promptly and ef-
fectively implemented throughout our county.
Of course, reducing road deaths and increas-
ing public transportation are worthy goals in and
of themselves. But these goals have taken on
greater urgency with climate change. When ACT
was founded in 1986, James Hansen had not yet
spoken to Congress on the threat of global warm-
ing, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change had yet to be formed. The walkable,
bikeable neighborhoods and better public transit
we work for are an important part of our future on
this rapidly warming planet.
Sincerely,
Ronit Aviva Dancis
President’s Letter
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PAGE 3
On March 2, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan
gave preliminary approval for the selection of
Purple Line Transit Partners as the design, build,
operations, and maintenance (DBOM), public-pri-
vate partnership (P3) contractor for the 16.2-mile
Purple Line. Purple Line Partners is one of four
teams that were short-listed in January 2014 from
proposals submitted in response to a Request for
Qualification issued November 2013 to bid on the
DBOM, P3 contract.
In June 2015, the Governor had set three crite-
ria for selection of the Purple Line DBOM P3
contractor before he would give his approval:
additional financial support from the local gov-
ernments (Montgomery and Prince George’s
Counties), reserved Federal funding, and aggres-
sive pricing. It took the Maryland Transit Ad-
ministration eight months of negotiation to meet
these criteria before it arrived at the selection of
Purple Line Partners. The State of Maryland’s
upfront expenditure for the Purple Line will drop
to $159.8 million -- $8 million less than the $168
million threshold that Governor Hogan originally
announced.
The final approval has to come from the Maryland
Board of Public Works (BPW), which will meet
in April. After BPW approval, the contract will
proceed to financial closing in early June, which
in turn, will allow the Maryland Transit Admin-
istration (MTA) and Federal Transit Administra-
tion to finalize the Full Funding Grant Agreement
of $900 million in “New Starts Funding” for the
Purple Line. Of this amount, President Obama’s
budget recommends $125 million in Fiscal Year
2017 for the Purple Line. MTA expects to give
Purple Line Partners an official notice to proceed
with construction in late 2016 with revenue ser-
vice slated to start by 2022.
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has
bestowed the 2015 Outstanding Achievement
Award for Excellence in Environmental Document
Preparation to the Purple Line project for its envi-
ronmental impact statement (EIS). The Outstand-
ing Achievement Award in the EIS category rec-
ognizes environmental documents that exemplify
best practices for a well-managed environmental
documentation process, comply with prevailing
requirements and expectations, and reduce paper-
work.
FTA presented the award on October 4, 2015 in
San Francisco, CA at the American Public Trans
-
portation Association annual meeting. The recipi-
ents of the award were authors of the Purple Line
EIS, Maryland Transit Partners, a joint venture of
three contractors: WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff; Ae-
com; and Rummel, Klepper & Kahl (also known
as RK&K). Maryland Transit Partners serves as
program management consultant to the Maryland
Transit Administration (MTA).
In selecting the Purple Line EIS as the winner of
the award the FTA stated, “The Purple Line EIS
exemplifies best practices for a well-managed
environmental documentation process. FTA is
pleased to recognize your efforts in producing this
effective and practical environmental document.
The review committee was particularly impressed
with the presentation of information, including
the use of reader-friendly language, graphics and
tables, while successfully resolving complicated
environmental issues.”
Governor Hogan OKay’s
Purple Line Contractor
by Quon Kwan
Purple Line Gets Outstanding
Achievement Award for EIS
by Quon Kwan
Transit Times, vol. 30, no. 2, April 2016
PAGE 4
On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed the
Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act
into law. This Act was the compromise bill formed
by the conference committee, which reconciled dif-
ferences between the House’s Surface Transportation
Reauthorization and Reform (STRR) Act and the
Senate’s Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision
for the Economy (DRIVE) Act. The FAST Act is the
first long-term surface transportation authorization in
10 years since the Safe and Affordable, Flexible, Ef-
ficient Transportation Equity Act – a Legacy for Users
(SAFETEA-LU) of 2005.
The most noteworthy provision in the FAST Act
allows Amtrak to re-invest Northeast Corridor net op
-
erating revenues into the Corridors substantial capital
investment needs (previously profits from this Cor-
ridor subsidized money-losing routes elsewhere). The
Act also creates a State-Supported Route Committee
to encourage more collaboration between states, Am-
trak, and US Department of Transportation (USDOT)
on state-supported Amtrak routes. Finally, the Act cre-
ates opportunities for Amtrak station devel-opment by
the private sector and for leveraging Amtrak right-of-
way development. The Act funds $2.596 billion for the
next five years for the Northeast Corridor and $5.454
billion for other corridors.
A provision in the FAST Act for the first time allows
transit-oriented development projects to be eligible for
loans under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance
and Innovation Act (TIFIA) and also Railroad Reha-
bilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) pro-
gram. Unfortunately, the FAST Act slashes the total
money for TIFIA loans from $1 billion to $275 mil-
lion. This will increase competition, meaning lowered
chances of the Purple Line project successfully obtain-
ing either a TIFIA loan or a TIFIA loan for the amount
needed.
The FAST Act includes reforms to improve mobility,
streamline capital project construction and acquisi-
tion, and increase the safety of public transportation
systems across the country. The five years of predict-
able formula funding provided by this Act will enable
transit agencies to better manage their long-term capi-
tal assets (mostly buses, rail cars, track and station,
equipment to repair buses, and wayside) and address
the backlog of state of good repair needs. The Act also
provides for low- and no-emissions buses and bus fa-
cilities, new competitive grant programs for buses and
bus facilities, innovative procurements, and innovative
transportation coordination.
The FAST Act moves funding for low- and no-emis
-
sions buses and bus facilities (e.g., natural gas, elec-
tric, and hybrid-electric buses) from the research
program to the competitive grant program for buses
and bus facilities. Rehabilitation or improvement of
existing facilities to accommodate low- or no-emis-
sion buses (e.g., retrofitting charging stations) are
now eligible for competitive grants for buses and bus
facilities.
The FAST Act removes barriers for transit agencies to
make leasing arrangements for transit equipment or fa-
cilities in order to reduce long-term capital costs. For
example, allowing leases for removable power sources
(rechargeable batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, and natu-
ral gas engines) drives down procurement costs for the
alternative fuel buses. The Act also removes barriers
to obtain more competitive bids for capital assets by
allowing options for (i) transit agencies in a state to
pool funds to make larger-scale procurements, (ii) a
state to submit statewide application for bus needs so
that the state, instead of the federal government, metes
out competitively awarded grant funds, (iii) multiple
states to purchase capital assets through cooperative
procurements (e.g., one state acts as a lead procure-
ment agency on behalf of each transit agency), and
(iv) a nonprofit organization to host cooperative pro-
curement contracts for transit agencies. These options
will particularly benefit small- to mid-sized and rural
transit agencies which pay higher prices for capital as-
sets because of their puny purchasing power.
The FAST Act has a provision to promote local coor
-
dination of all Federally-funded transportation provid-
ers to improve mobility for the transportation disad-
vantaged and non-emergency medical transportation to
remove duplication. The Act mandates the Interagency
Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility to
publish a strategic plan improving such coordination.
The Act also creates a Pilot Program for Innovative
Coordinated Access and Mobility to fund projects to
improve such coordination.
What about the FAST Act?
by Quon Kwan
Transit Times, vol. 30, no. 2, April 2016
PAGE 5
On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed the
Omnibus Appropriations & Tax Extenders (OA&TE)
Act into law. The House of Representatives approved
the $1.1 trillion Omnibus Appropriations bill and ap-
proved a package of $680 billion for the Tax Extend-
ers bill. Under the Rule adopted for consideration of
the bills, separate votes on each bill were held, but the
process in the House sent both bills to the Senate as a
combined bill.
The most significant effect of the OA&TE Act is a
provision that (1) puts transit commuter tax benefits
at parity with commuter parking tax benefits and (2)
makes permanent this parity for the transit commuter
benefit. The provision increases the transit commuter
tax benefits from the monthly amount (currently at
$130) to $250, rising to $255 the following year.
This amount ($250 for 2015 or $255 for 2016) is the
amount an employer can offer to their employees
either as a tax-free fringe benefit or as a pre-tax option
in order to pay for their mass transit commute to/from
work. This is an historic agreement, ending the annual
fight to restore parity to transit commuter tax benefits.
Note: the Internal Revenue Code includes a cost of
living adjustment for the commuter tax benefit. Under
an executive order signed by President Bill Clinton,
the transit benefit to federal employees in the DC-area
automatically increases to the full amount allowed
under tax law.
The second most significant effect of the OA&TE Act
is that it extends for two years through FY 2016 (ret
-
roactive to 2015) the Alternative Fuels Tax Credit and
the alternative fuels property (infrastructure) credit.
Transit agencies have the largest fleets of alternative
fuel vehicles so across the country they will benefit
from these tax credits, especially, the $0.50 per gaso-
line gallon equivalent (GGE) tax credit offered to
transit agencies fueling their vehicles with compressed
(CNG) or liquefied (LNG) natural gas. The credits are
important offsets to transit agencies fuel and operating
costs.
As part of the OA&TE Act, funding to the Federal
Transit Administration (FTA) increased $870 million
to a total of $11.8 billion. Amtrak grant funding is
maintained at $1.39 billion; of that amount, $1.102 bil
-
lion is dedicated to Capital and Debt Service Grants,
and $289 million is for Operating Subsidies. Several
provisions are included in the Amtrak appropriations,
such as requiring overtime limits on employees, and
prohibiting federal funding for routes where Amtrak
offers a discount of 50% peak fares. The OA&TE Act
appropriates an additional $50 million for Rail Safety
Grants, including $25 million specifically for Positive
Train Control (PTC) implementation.
The local effect of the OA&TE Act is an appropria
-
tion of $150 million in 2016 (same as for last year) for
the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority,
which provides the critical funding necessary to ensure
safety projects continue without interruption. There
is an appropriation of $2.177 billion total for Capital
Investment Grants; of this amount, $1.250 billion is
to go to all Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA)
projects within FTA. Consistent with the FAST Act,
the maximum Federal share for a New Starts FFGA is
capped at 60 percent. However, a FFGA for the Purple
Line is still not yet in place.
The FAST Act includes provisions for rail transit
operations safety. The Act clarifies the Federal Transit
Administration’s (FTA) authority and responsibilities
in overseeing the safety of rail transit operations. It
requires FTA to review safety standards in use by rail
transit agencies and to establish minimum safety stan-
dards for rail transit. The minimum safety standards
will cover emergency preparedness plans and train-
ing, maintenance, inspection, testing, system design,
fatigue management, vehicle crash worthiness and
avoidance, and all other operations issues.
Aside from rail transit operations safety, the Act
mandates FTA to issue rules to protect transit opera
-
tors from customer assaults and use of technology to
mitigate or reduce such assaults.
Transit Commuters Get
Permanent Tax Benefits
A Big Win for Metro
by Quon Kwan
Pedestrian Super Hero
by Kathy Jentz
Who needs Batman or Superman? This guy is the
real deal! A masked New Yorker fights for pedestrian
rghts in the city with funny and educational results.
Watch this inspiring online video at https://vimeo.
com/158135821.
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Making Vision Zero Work in
Montgomery County
by Wendy Leibowitz
Vision Zero is a goal to eliminate traffic fatalities by a
specific date. Vision Zero is a paradigm shift: instead
of prioritizing a cost-benefit analysis to building more
roads or speeding traffic along, Vision Zero prioritizes
that no traffic fatalities be acceptable. Planners and the
public must take that mind-set and apply it to every
traffic situation. Vision Zero was born in Sweden. U.S.
cities that have adopted Vision Zero include Austin,
Boston, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, New
York City, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, San
Jose, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Seattle, Washington,
DC.
The County’s Pedestrian, Bike, and Traffic Safety Ad
-
visory Committee (PBTSAC) met on February 4, 2016
to discuss the concept and consider the best paths
forward (pun not intended). Al Roshdieh, newly ap-
pointed head of Montgomery County’s Department of
Transportation, attended the entire meeting, appeared
interested, and asked many questions. The rest of this
article is about what transpired at the first meeting on
Vision Zero in Montgomery County.
The Chair of the PBTSAC launched the meeting with
a look at snow removal issues, which is relevant to
Vision Zero. Vision Zero sees us all as “people on
the move” – whether by car, bike, or on foot. In the
context of Vision Zero, snow removal should not
prioritize vehicular traffic over pedestrian movement.
However, County snow plows continue to clear snow
from roadways by piling it up on sidewalks, where it
may not melt for weeks, forcing pedestrians to walk in
the roadway. In some cases, residents had cleared their
sidewalks, only to find the County snow plows putting
back snow from roadways onto sidewalks. When snow
is removed, it should be REMOVED, not just moved
from roadways to sidewalks. The needs of pedestrians
must be heeded.
The County Council seems to support the Vision Zero
Resolution; it unanimously agreed to study the matter,
with a report due in October 2016. I spoke before the
committee about the importance of a specific deadline
to attain Vision Zero. A deadline would help focus
efforts and measure success. Although the Swedes
missed their first deadline for Vision Zero, they now
are on Vision Zero 2.0. Usually deadlines are about
10 years out although Seattle’s deadline is 15 years
(2030).
The PBTSAC then examined how crashes can be
avoided. The first traffic fatality in Montgomery
County this year was a 67 year-old woman, struck and
killed by a Ride-On bus, while crossing Old George-
town Road at Battery Lane, in a crosswalk with a
green light. The police have not yet issued a report on
the fatality caused by the Ride-On bus.
Next, ACT Board member Sean Emerson presented
an up-to-date crash map, tracking all traffic crashes in
the county. A County police officer noted Sean’s map
was more up-to-date than the officer’s own map. Then,
Sean showed the PBTSAC personal videos of attempts
to cross a street in Silver Spring and how the flash-
ing lights marking a crosswalk are ignored by drivers.
This observation was referenced later when the State
Highway Administration (SHA) said it was going to
install flashing lights at the dangerous crosswalk on
Veirs Mill Road, where a young cyclist was killed in
late 2015. The SHA was dumbfounded when it was
asked whether the blinking lights to be installed were
the one-second on/off lights ignored by drivers (as
Sean noted).
A representative of Washington, DC’s Vision Zero
showed off DC’s wonderful, crowd-sourced map
where people can report not just accidents, but “near
misses.” The map is online at http://visionzero.ddot.
dc.gov/VisionZero/. “Cyclists use this map a lot,” the
representative said. “It’s mobile-friendly, so people
without computers in their homes will use it as well.”
Another person noted that cell phones have jumped
the digital divide, and cell phone users can call in
data to the map easily and accurately, from the “spot.”
Washington, DC is also using “pop-up stands” to talk
to people about their experiences in different neigh-
borhoods (rather than holding hearings and hoping
people show up). Finally, DC holds “hack-a-thons,” to
engage people in using the enormous amounts of data
collected from DC’s “dynamic maps” to determine
how the data can help, instead of just letting it all sit
there, unused.
Concluding the PBTSAC meeting, a police officer
spoke of efforts in Annapolis to stiffen penalties for
drunk driving and reckless driving, in particular to
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support the proposed “Noah’s Law,” named for Officer
Noah Leotta, who was killed by a drunk driver. Noah’s
Law would require motorists who have been convicted
of drunk driving to breathe into an “interlock” device
before starting their car. If they’ve had too much to
drink, the interlock prevents them from starting the
car. For seven years, a similar bill has not been able to
make it out of committee due in large part to the oppo-
sition of the committee chair, Joseph P. Vallario, who
represents drunk drivers in his private law practice.
Thanks to media attention and a great deal of police
advocacy, the bill finally made it out of committee in
March 2016. It has not yet passed the Maryland state
legislature.
Further information is available on the Vision Zero
Montgomery County Facebook page, at https://www.
facebook.com/visionzeromontgomerycounty/.
Here is a reproduction of the Vision Zero that ACT has
been circulating at all of our events for that past two
years. It is in Spanish on the reverse. Extra copies are
available to any ACT member upon request.
Envisioning the Purple Line
Forum #2
Mark your calendar for Purple Line NOW’s second
forum in our Envisioning the Purple Line Series called
“Understanding the Public Private Partnership” on
April 21, from 6:00–8:00 pm at Montgomery College
- Takoma/Silver Spring Campus. Maryland’s Secre-
tary of Transportation, Pete Rahn, will be our featured
keynote speaker and we are gathering a great group
of knowledgeable panelists, including Montgomery
County Councilmember George Leventhal, to help us
navigate how this unique partnership will work. We
are pleased to announce the talented Martin DiCaro,
Transportation Reporter for WAMU 88.5 FM, will be
our moderator for the evening!
The event is free and open to the public, but you must
reserve your seat in advance as space is limited.
If you missed the first forum in February - you can
catch the highlights here Purple Line and a New Col-
lege Park.
Bike to Work Day
On Friday May 20, 2016 Commuter Connections and
the Washington Area Bicyclist Association invite you
to celebrate bicycling as a clean, fun, and healthy way
to get to work. Attend one of 83 pit stops in DC, MD,
and VA to receive refreshments, and be entered into a
raffle for bicycles being given away. More details at:
http://www.biketoworkmetrodc.org/.
Safe sidewalks everywhere | Lower speed limits | No turn-on-
red | Brightly painted crosswalks at every intersection | Speed
enforcement | Ticket drivers who endanger pedestrians
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VISION ZERO
MEANS ZERO TRAFFIC DEATHS
Do you support VISION ZERO?
Tell the Montgomery
County Council
100 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850
county.council@montgomerycountymd.gov
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