Share input on Draft 2024-2028 TIP and amendment to UPWP

MARC has prepared the Draft 2024-2028 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for public review and comment. The Draft TIP includes all federally funded surface transportation projects, and all regionally significant surface transportation projects regardless of funding source, planned for the Kansas City metropolitan area in Federal Fiscal Years 2024-2028.
            
The Draft 2024-2028 TIP has been developed by MARC in accordance with regulations contained in the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act (IIJA), the most recent legislation governing the federal transportation program. In accordance with these regulations, the Draft 2024-2028 TIP includes:

• A financial plan that accounts for inflation and includes system-level estimates of operation and maintenance costs and revenues.
• An environmental justice analysis that examines transportation investments and other considerations.
• Discussion as to the effect of the programmed investments toward achieving performance targets.
• Visualization techniques to help convey information.

The Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP):

• Describes the transportation planning activities MARC and other agencies will undertake during the year.
• Documents the proposed expenditures of federal, state and local funds in support of applications for various planning grants.
• Provides a management tool for MARC and the funding agencies in scheduling major transportation planning activities, milestones and products.  

The proposed 2023 UPWP Amendment #2 will make the following modification:

• Add a new project (5.21) funded through the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program
  • Reconnecting Kansas City: Repairing Connections for Kansas City’s Westside Neighborhood – Lead Agency: City of Kansas City, Missouri Public Works. The Reconnecting Kansas City initiative is designed to address the issues created by the infrastructure programs of the past, and specifically will plan for the replacement of the aging I-35 viaduct.
    • Designate and design multimodal connections within the Westside community and with the central business district.
    • Create design solutions for Beardsley Road, connecting the Westside with the imminent economic and residential development in the West Bottoms.