Draft Federal Transit Administration (FTA) New Starts Application being Prepared
The City of Madison, Dane County, and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) are preparing to submit an application to the Federal Transit Administration to initiate preliminary engineering (PE) for the proposed Transport 2020 project. The City, County, and WisDOT comprise an Intergovernmental Partnership responsible for the planning and development of transportation improvements in the Transport 2020 corridor connecting Middleton, the University of Wisconsin campus, downtown Madison, and Reiner Road (near Sun Prairie), on the city's East Side.
* Please note that the documents below are in draft form and are subject to modification prior to FTA submittal.
The Draft of the New Starts application is available in PDF files in the sections listed below. Links to the sections will become active as they are posted
- Project Background - Making the Case (660 KB)
- Certification of Technical Methods and Planning Assumptions
- Certification Document 1 (56 KB)
- Certification Document 2 (27 KB)
- Travel Forecasts (4.2 MB)
- Cost Estimating Assumptions (400 KB)
- Mobility and Cost Effectiveness (Draft Currently Under Development)
- Transit-Supportive Existing Land Use and Future Patterns
- Transit Supportive Land Use (75 KB)
- Land Use Narrative (216 KB)
- Local Financial Commitment (Draft Currently Under Development)
- Other Factors Report (1 MB)
- Before and After Study Plan (115 KB)
- Project Management Plan (297 KB)
- NEPA Scoping (57 KB)
- Support for Transport 2020
The study team encourages and welcomes comments and concerns. See the Contact Us page for more information.
