Florida Department of Transportation
Orange County
City of Orlando
Osceola County
Orange City
Seminole County
City of Winter Park
City of DeBary
City of Longwood
Orlando Regional Multimodal Pedestrian Safety Program
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Project Summary ... 1
Table 1: Project Area Population ... 2
I. Project Description ... 2
(i) DeBary ... 4
(ii) Eatonville ... 4
(iii) Longwood ... 4
(iv) Orange City ... 4
(v) Orange County ... 4
(vi) Orlando ... 7
(vii) Osceola County ... 7
(viii) Seminole County ... 7
(ix) Winter Park ... 8
(x) Florida Department of Transportation ... 8
II. Project Parties ... 8
III. Grant Funds and Sources/Uses of Project Funds ... 10
Table 2: Sources of Project Funds ... 11
Table 3: Uses of Project Funds ... 11
IV. Selection Criteria ... 12
a) Long-Term Outcomes ... 12
(xi) State of Good Repair: ... 12
(xii) Economic Competitiveness: ... 13
(xiii) Livability: ... 13
(xiv) Environmental Sustainability: ... 13
(xv) Safety: ... 13
b) Job Creation and Near-Term Economic Activity ... 14
Table 4: Project Area Economic Characteristics ... 14
c) Innovation ... 15
e) Results of Benefit-Cost Analysis ... 15
Table 5: Benefit-Cost Analysis Data and Analysis ... 17
V. PROJECT READINESS AND NEPA ... 19
VI. PREAPPLICATION CHANGES ... 19
VII. DETAILED PROJECT LIST... 19
VIII. APPENDIX: FEDERAL WAGE RATE CERTIFICATION AND LETTERS/RESOLUTIONS OF SUPPORT ... 1
PROJECT SUMMARY
1) Project Title: Orlando Regional Multimodal Pedestrian Safety Program 2) Type of Project: Bicycle and Pedestrian
3) Applicant:
Prime Applicant: Orange County Government
DUNS Number: 064797251
Contact Person: Brian R. Sanders, E.I., Chief Planner
Orange County Transportation Planning Division 4200 South John Young Parkway
Orlando, FL 32839 Telephone: 407-836-8022 Fax: 407-836-8079
Email: [email protected]
Project Partners: Florida Department of Transportation; Osceola County; Seminole County; Cities of DeBary and Orange City (Volusia County); Cities of Orlando and Winter Park (Orange County); City of Longwood (Seminole County); Town of Eatonville (Orange County)
Project Location:
While many know the Orlando area as one of the world’s most visited tourist destinations, Orlando holds another top ranking that is of concern—one of the most dangerous areas in the country for pedestrians. Orlando’s rapid growth, distributed population centers, suburban context, roadway characteristics, and under-resourced communities have contributed to a regional need for pedestrian safety solutions to improve livability and accessibility. Given this regional imperative, nine Central Florida jurisdictions have joined together with the Florida Department of Transportation to create a TIGER IV proposal comprised of pedestrian safety construction projects in all nine jurisdictions, serving a variety of land use and transportation contexts that includes urban areas, suburban neighborhoods, and rural communities.
All of the areas are a County or are within a County that is a Census-designated Urbanized Area based on the US Census 2000 data. The project is located in Florida’s 3rd, 7th, 8th, and 24th
Congressional Districts.
General population characteristics for participating jurisdictions are highlighted in Table 1. Several of these communities have suffered economic distress as a result of national, state, and local recessionary conditions and continue to have higher poverty and unemployment than national averages, as discussed in the Job Creation and Near-Term Economic Activity section.
Table 1: Project Area Population
2010 Population 2010 Persons Per Square Mile Orange County 1,145,956 1,268.5 Osceola County 268,685 202.4 Seminole County 422,718 1,367.0 City of DeBary 19,320 1,018.7 Town of Eatonville 2,159 871.2 City of Longwood 13,657 2,505.0 City of Orlando 238,300 2,327.3
City of Orange City 10,599 1,497.9
City of Winter Park 27,852 3,208.4
Sources: 2010 U.S. Census State & County QuickFacts, 2011
4) Funding Requested
TIGER Federal Funding Requested: $10,573,031 Committed Funding/Local Match: $8,680,392 Total Project Cost: $19,253,423 5) Project Period: April 2012-June 2014
I.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Orlando Regional Multimodal Pedestrian Safety Program is a regional and multimodal program encompassing 340 construction projects in nine Central Florida jurisdictions and an additional 27 projects by the Florida Department of Transportation. This application, if
approved, would provide over $19 million in construction projects to improve pedestrian safety in four counties in the Orlando metropolitan area. Since the mid-1990’s, Dangerous by Design
and other national publications have consistently ranked Metropolitan Orlando among the worst of U.S. major metropolitan areas for pedestrian safety. Dangerous by Design notes Orlando has a high pedestrian fatality rate of 3.0 per 100,000 people and that only 1.2 percent of people walk to work, stating ―the few people who do walk in Orlando face a relatively high risk of being killed in a traffic crash‖ (Dangerous by Design 2011).If this fatality rate holds constant, Orange, Seminole, and Osceola Counties would annually suffer over $341 million in pedestrian losses annually, based on standard economic loss factors explored in more detail in the Results of Benefit-Cost Analysis section.
To address these urgent needs and prevent further pedestrian fatalities in Central Florida,
member governments of MetroPlan Orlando (Orange, Seminole, and Osceola Counties; the City of Longwood in Seminole County; the Cities of Orlando and Winter Park and the Town of Eatonville in Orange County; and the Cities of DeBary and Orange City in Volusia County) have
joined in this application with the Florida Department of Transportation in a regional approach to address pedestrian safety. In Central Florida, Orange County is the primary regional
employment center and features significant workforce in-migration from surrounding counties and movement of the workforce through the county. LYNX is the primary transit provider within three counties and serves a geographic area that is three times the national average for transit systems serving a similar population base. (VOTRAN is the transit provider in Volusia County.) Based on Central Florida’s status as a worldwide tourist destination, welcoming over 50 million visitors in 2010, over 26 percent of the Orlando MSA workforce is in Accommodation and Food Services or the Retail Trade sectors (Florida Research and Economic Database 2011), with relatively low average wages. With Central Florida’s suburban land use patterns and distributed activity centers, access to workplaces and reliable transportation are major quality of life and economic issues for Central Florida’s low-income communities. These transportation challenges would be addressed, in part, by the project’s sidewalk construction and widening, mid-block pedestrian refuge islands and signals, intersection safety projects, and other pedestrian safety initiatives, which enhance pedestrian safety, transit access, and accessibility of workplaces, goods, and services.
67.8% 18.6% 8.4% 5.2%
Project Types
Sidewalks Mid Block Crossing Intersection Safety 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% ARTERIAL SPEED PED INFRASTRUCTUREPercentage of Requested Funds
Source: City of Orlando, 2012
The Program would provide extensive sidewalks, intersection improvements, mid-block crossings, and other pedestrian safety features on both functionally-classified and local roads. Each of the improvements proposed, including design modifications, connectivity, and traffic control, would address identified pedestrian infrastructure deficiencies and key recommendations of these national publications, as depicted in the chart following. This relationship between recommendations and improvements is intended to ensure the program will have immediate and meaningful effects on pedestrian safety on a regional level in Central Florida, while creating positive long-term outcomes for the region.
A summary description of projects within each jurisdiction is provided below, with specific project description found in the Detailed Project List section of this application:
(i) DeBary
The City of DeBary’s Highbanks Road Sidewalk Project would widen approximately 3,300 linear feet of sidewalk from 5 feet to 8 feet in width at an estimated project cost of $220,000. There have been two fatalities on Highbanks Road in the City, and a wider sidewalk will
encourage pedestrian use and increase pedestrians’ distance from vehicle traffic, thus increasing safety.
(ii) Eatonville
The Town of Eatonville, the oldest African-American chartered municipality in the United States, has pursued an extensive streetscape and beautification program along Kennedy Boulevard to enhance pedestrian safety and aesthetics in the Town. The Town of Eatonville’s project would leverage these initial efforts by replacing approximately 1,500 linear feet of 5-foot sidewalk along various roadways within the Town for a total project cost of $105,000.
(iii) Longwood
In the City of Longwood, three projects will create an integral east-west connection that is a priority of the City’s Bicycle-Pedestrian Master Plan via a multi-use bicycle and pedestrian connector between Rangeline Road and Grant Street that connects neighborhoods and the SunRail Station, South Seminole Hospital, key City parks, the Historic District. It also will provide the City’s first connection to Seminole County’s popular regional trail network, including the Seminole-Wekiva Trail and the Cross-Seminole Trail. The project also provides funding for an Oleander Street bridge that will dramatically increase the connectivity between the SunRail station and proposed senior housing development on Orange Avenue, while improving circulation within the SunRail TOD area as a whole. The three projects have a total cost of $1,851,400.
(iv) Orange City
The City of Orange City will complete over 12,790 linear feet of sidewalk construction and widening under the rubric of its adopted Complete Streets Program and transit access initiatives. The City’s seven construction projects would cost an estimated $895,300 and benefit several sections of Enterprise Road and Saxon Boulevard within the City.
(v) Orange County
At a project cost of $7.4 million, Orange County will complete 45 sidewalk projects that total 20.01 miles in length. These projects are widely distributed throughout Orange County’s urban,
suburban, and urban fringe areas to provide the maximum benefit to affected pedestrians
throughout Orange County, particularly in Bithlo and other under-resourced communities. With TIGER IV funding, Orange County also would install pedestrian refuge islands on Holden Avenue (1 island), S. Rio Grande Avenue (6 islands), N. Hiawassee Road (5 islands), Old Winter Garden Road (2 islands), and N. Pine Hills Road (9 islands), which serve many low-income communities that are heavily transit and pedestrian-dependent. The estimated cost for the 23 pedestrian refuge islands serving 34,432 linear feet of roadway is $2 million.
(vi) Orlando
The City of Orlando’s TIGER IV proposal includes 3 types of projects to enhance pedestrian safety and the walking environment at locations throughout the City that have a history of frequent and severe pedestrian/vehicular crashes. The first type is installation of mid-block pedestrian refuge islands to allow crossings to be made in 2 stages, so pedestrians avoid simultaneously gauging the speed and proximity of vehicles traveling in 2 directions. The 14 proposed island locations have crash histories that warrant such treatments, and installation is estimated at $1.26 million. The second project type includes audible pedestrian signals for safer pedestrian crossings for sight-impaired persons, the elderly, children, and other vulnerable populations. Audible pedestrian signals would be installed at 100 intersections with high pedestrian activity at a total cost of $1.5 million.
The third project type is the installation of curb ramps and warning mats at 1,000 crossings throughout Orlando to make all the City’s sidewalks ADA-compliant. While 72.3% of Orlando’s crossings are fully compliant, an additional 1,007 (7.3%) have ramps, but no warning mats installed, and 2,823 (20.4%) do not have ramps or warning mats. This portion of the City’s projects would cost an estimated $400,000.
(vii) Osceola County
Osceola County will complete several important sidewalk projects at estimated cost of $763,900 for 10,690 linear feet of new construction. A key project would provide a 5- foot sidewalk along the west side of International Drive near Osceola Parkway to fill in facility gaps along an
existing transportation facility serving a high volume of pedestrian traffic, including significant tourist activity. The sidewalk provides access to major concentrations of tourist commercial land uses on US 192 and on Osceola Parkway. The Pleasant Hill Road Sidewalk project would provide a 6-foot sidewalk along the west side of Pleasant Hill Road to improve pedestrian access on an existing transportation facility and access to the signalized intersection at Brighton Lake Boulevard.
The local match for this project includes completed design plans at $17,430 with the remaining funds from the proposed 2012/13-2016/17 Osceola County Capital Improvement Program. The third project will install a new 5-foot sidewalk along the west side SR 535/Vineland Road, and the fourth project will install a new 5-foot sidewalk along the south side of Koa Street from New Castle Road to an existing sidewalk adjacent to Koa Elementary School. The fourth project would construct sidewalks along Neptune Road.
(viii) Seminole County
Using TIGER IV funds, Seminole County will complete nine sidewalk projects that create 1.87 miles of new sidewalk. These projects have an estimated cost of $719,500 for construction only, as Seminole County would provide project design services. Sidewalk projects on Merritt Street,
Williams Street, Leonard Street, Marker Street, Station Street, Leon Street and Morse Street are within the designated East Altamonte HUD Target Area. Seminole County is providing a local match of 50 percent for these projects, not including additional funding from the Florida Department of Transportation.
(ix) Winter Park
In the City of Winter Park, seven projects would improve pedestrian safety at key locations throughout the City at a total cost of $1.4 million. Projects include a new signalized pedestrian mid-block crossing and 2 signalized pedestrian crosswalks at the intersection of Lakemont Avenue and Palmer Avenue near Winter Park Hospital, 4 signalized pedestrian crosswalks at Glenridge Way, pedestrian refuge islands on US 17-92 at Gay Road and at Fairbanks Avenue, and a pedestrian refuge island on Fairbanks Avenue at Park Avenue. Winter Park also would implement a ―road diet‖ on Denning Drive, an underutilized corridor serving the low-income community of West Winter Park. The project would modify the existing roadway corridor to three lanes with bicycle lanes.
(x) Florida Department of Transportation
As a partner in this TIGER IV grant application, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has committed $4.1 million in funding to leverage the local support of other project parties, ensuring an overall local match of 55% in support of TIGER IV projects described in this application. With TIGER IV funding, FDOT would complete 27 sidewalk gap projects serving five state roadway corridors: SR 500, SR 438, SR 435, SR 50, and SR 530 at a cost of $697,000. Based on FDOT’s existing project delivery mechanisms, these project costs assume a
construction cost of $23 per linear foot, in contrast to the $70 per linear foot assumed for other sidewalk projects in the application that would be constructed under a design-build contract.
II.
PROJECT PARTIES
As the lead applicant in this TIGER IV grant proposal, Orange County offers significant
experience in managing capital projects and successful project management of extensive projects funded by federal and state funds. Orange County Public Works is Local Agency Program (LAP)-certified and has been awarded over $22 million in LAP Projects either completed or in progress. In addition to LAP Projects, Orange County also has successfully administered
numerous federal and state capital projects under the ARRA Program, CIGP, TOP, and TRIP, as well as a variety of landscaping projects and other state-funded initiatives that have totaled over $86 million in improvements. Despite significant reductions in capital projects over the past several years of economic downturns, Orange County is managing over $300 million in capital projects, including over $141 million in Public Works capital projects, in the current fiscal year. Orange County’s fiscal, managerial, environmental, real estate, and engineering personnel have the experience and expertise to provide strong project management and implementation of Orange County TIGER IV-funded projects.
The other eight local jurisdictions partnering in this TIGER IV grant proposal as other project parties have the capacity to manage and successfully construct their candidate projects, with some jurisdictions managing significant capital improvement programs on an ongoing basis. For
example, the City of Orlando funds and constructs over $100 million in projects annually, and Seminole County has over $26.9 million in transportation-related capital projects budgeted in the current fiscal year. If approved for TIGER IV funding, the Orlando Regional Multimodal
Pedestrian Safety Program would be implemented through design-build contracts and a master CEI contract to assure accountability and serve as a single point of contact on project
performance. In addition, the Florida Department of Transportation’s participation in the project ensures an additional level of project expertise and oversight will be dedicated to grant
implementation.
The project management plan and detailed project schedule provide more detail on the
accountability measures of project implementation. Assembling a proposal package that contains numerous projects spanning four counties and including several cities requires a well-conceived management plan that not only defines the production of individual projects, but also identifies the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders. Prior to the award of funding for this
application, members of our Central Florida project management and production team
representing all project parties held meetings to determine the best methods of management and delivery of this important pedestrian safety program. In the event this TIGER IV application is awarded funding for these much-needed pedestrian safety projects, the following management plan will be immediately implemented.
Immediately upon award notification from the FHWA TIGER Team, the Central Florida
management and production team will be notified to initiate the management plan, comprised of project administration, procurement of a master design/construction engineering and inspection (CEI) consultant and a design-build consultant, execution of Local Agency Program (LAP) agreements and interlocal agreements, a public involvement program, and a financial plan. The project administration of this program will include procurement of a master CEI consultant to provide project management and support services as necessary to administer the design and construction of the pedestrian safety program’s candidate projects. The master CEI will provide services that include, but will not be limited to, organizing coordination meetings between federal TIGER Team officials and the local team members, internal coordination meetings between local team members, design review, inspection services, invoice review, coordination with designers and contractors, processing shop drawings, change orders and pay requests, responding to requests for information, federal and local reporting and addressing citizen concerns. The fee for CEI procurement is included in the estimated costs for the projects included in this TIGER IV proposal.
The procurement of a design-build consultant will also be necessary to design and construct the projects listed in this TIGER IV proposal. It is anticipated that each participating local
jurisdiction will procure a design-build consultant to complete their respective projects following all local, state, and federal requirements. The design-build consultant will be responsible for design and construction services that include, but are not limited to, surveying, permitting, plan production, coordination, reporting, invoicing, construction activities, bonding and insurance, and generally meeting all local, state and federal requirements. CEI and design-build consultant procurement will provide the guidelines necessary to meet all local, state and federal
requirements. The services to be performed by the CEI and design-build consultant will be assigned though individual purchase orders and notices to proceed on a per-project basis.
Based on the project team’s extensive past experience with grant project administration, one of the first major steps to obligating funds is to execute LAP agreements for individual or groups of projects. The local project team has successfully completed numerous projects utilizing LAP agreements and checklists for both ARRA Stimulus and Non-Stimulus funding. The local project team will expedite and shepherd all LAP agreements through each jurisdiction to ensure a
smooth and efficient execution of each document.
The local project team will concurrently process LAP agreements while defining project scopes of service and schedules prior to implementing the public involvement program (PIP). The PIP will include media releases, newsletters sent to project areas announcing project information and schedules, and website development. Project materials will be publishes in English, Spanish, and Kreyol, as locally-appropriate to community demographics.
The financial plan includes interlocal agreements between Orange County and the other
participating jurisdictions be executed in order to form the framework for ensuring obligation of the required twenty percent local project matches. Individual jurisdictions will be responsible for paying and processing their project’s matching fund invoicing. The master CEI will coordinate and assist the individual jurisdictions to ensure that invoices are being process and reported in an efficient manner.
III. GRANT FUNDS AND SOURCES/USES OF PROJECT FUNDS
The Orlando Regional Multimodal Pedestrian Safety Program’s proposed distribution of TIGER IV grant funds is detailed in Table 2. All jurisdictions have committed at least 20 percent of project funding as a local match in writing as part of TIGER IV proposal development, and FDOT’s commitment of $4.1 million in funding ensures an overall local match in the application of 55%. The proposed uses of project funds by jurisdiction and type of project are depicted in Table 3.
Determining the economic benefit of spending public funds is an important factor when considering a project or program’s eligibility and desirability for grant funding. In recent national infrastructure relief programs, job creation numbers and calculations have weathered intense scrutiny, due to the sheer number of factors surrounding job creation. The FHWA’s website resources for calculation of Employment Impacts of Highway Infrastructure Investment presents an estimated job creation factor of 13 jobs for every million dollars spent on highway infrastructure. The Orlando Regional Multimodal Pedestrian Safety Program anticipates
spending $19,253,493 on highway infrastructure-related projects. Using the FHWA estimate, this spending level would translate into approximately 250 jobs created.
The Orlando Regional Multimodal Pedestrian Safety Program involves the coordination of 340 infrastructure projects by nine jurisdictions and an additional 27 projects by the Florida
Department of Transportation, and a detailed project schedule is constrained by those factors, particularly relative to the procurement process. However, project parties have committed to the estimated project schedule depicted on the following page, which would quickly and
2014 completion date for the entire Orlando Regional Multimodal Pedestrian Safety Program, as depicted on Production Schedule on the next page. A federal infrastructure investment in Central Florida will provide an immediate effect on the economic vitality of the region, still suffering from economic recession as detailed in the Job Creation and Near-Term Economic Activity
section, as well as have positive effects on long-term economic and environmental sustainability.
Table 2: Sources of Project Funds
Orange County
Orlando FDOT Winter
Park Eatonville Osceola County Longwood Seminole County DeBary Orange City Sub-Category Total Total Project Costs $9,400,573 $3,160,000 $697,000 $1,440,000 $106,250 $763,900 $1,851,400 $719,000 $220,000 $895,300 $13,050,123 Proposed Projects 48.8% 16.4% 3.6% 7.5% 0.6% 4.0% 9.6% 3.7% 1.1% 4.7% Grant Request $5,360,248 $3,160,000 $406,370 $839,560 $61,947 $445,375 $1,079,417 $203,497 $128,266 $521,985 $14,345,724 Local Match (Local Govt and FDOT Funds) $4,040,325 $1,633,633 $290,630 $600,440 $44,303 $318,525 $771,983 $515,503 $91,734 $373,315 $4,177,462 Local Match Source from Local Govt* CIP account 1003-072- 2841-6311, now funded at $2 million CIP accounts 4105-070, 4105-099, 4106-070, 4106-099 , now funded at $632,000 CIP accounts 0001-3105-541 and 001-3115-541, now funded at $288,000 CIP account 400 0536 536-6300, now funded at $21,999 CIP account C465501306-5650000, now funded at $200,000 CIP account 310-3520-541-6300, now funded at $2.6 million CIP account 99999999, now funded at $4 million CIP account 125-9000-590-6300, now funded at $55,000 CIP accounts 30.541.6420 and 30.513.6301, now funded at $179,000
* The Osceola County match includes $17,430 in design funds for the Pleasant Hill Road Sidewalk project.
Table 3: Uses of Project Funds
Orange County
Orlando FDOT Winter
Park
Eatonville Longwood Osceola County Seminole County DeBary Orange City Sub-Category Total SIDEWALKS Construction $7,397,273 $94,000 $1,851,400 $693,700 $812,750 $895,300 10,393,637 Widening $220,000 $220,000 Improvement $400,000 $603,000 $106,250 $506,250 MID-BLOCK CROSSING Refuge Island $2,003,300 $1,260,000 $270,000 $3,533,300 Special Use Signals $50,000 $1,250,000 INTERSECTION SAFETY New Signals $120,000 $120,000 Improved Signals $1,500,000 $1,500,000 ROAD DIET $1,000,000 $1,000,000 TOTAL $9,400,573 $3,160,000 $697,000 $1,440,000 $106,250 $1,851,400 $763,900 $719,000 $220,000 $895,300
IV. SELECTION CRITERIA
a) Long-Term Outcomes
(xi) State of Good Repair:
This project will improve the condition of existing transportation facilities and systems by providing additional sidewalks, median crossings, and improvements, as well as
rehabilitation, reconstruction and enhancement of existing facilities. This project’s pedestrian safety enhancements, particularly sidewalk construction to remove gaps in the existing transportation network, are consistent with regional initiatives for management and operations of the transportation network and for bicycle and pedestrian planning. The project also is consistent with applicable local government comprehensive plans and capital
improvements programs. If unimproved, these sidewalk projects would threaten future pedestrian mobility, constrain access to transit and workplaces, and reduce the efficiency of the
transportation network. The project is appropriately capitalized and would be maintained through sustainable and ongoing maintenance funds programmed at the local level, which likely would be supplemented and enhanced by MPO management and operations funds dedicated to pedestrian facilities in the future.
(xii) Economic Competitiveness:
This project will provide enhanced accessibility for the region’s workforce to job centers and transit facilities that serve the wider region to increase long-term efficiency and productivity, while promoting alternative modes that increase the region’s sustainability. The project enhances reliability and cost-competitiveness in the movement of workers and goods by providing connections between residences, schools, parks, offices, workplaces, and shopping centers, as well as promoting mobility in the International Drive/US 192 activity center that is the epicenter of Central Florida’s globally-competitive tourism and hospitality industry.
Construction projects also would serve low-income communities in need of increased access to job centers. As an example, in Seminole County, sidewalk projects on Merritt Street, Williams Street, Leonard Street, Marker Street, Station Street, Leon Street and Morse Street are all located within the designated East Altamonte HUD Target Area. In Orange County, pedestrian refuge islands would serve the low-income communities of Holden Heights and Pine Hills.
(xiii) Livability:
This project will foster the livability of communities in Central Florida by creating affordable and convenient transportation choices and access to transportation services.
This project provides additional mobility and accessibility to pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, the disabled, and the growing senior and financially-disadvantaged populations in the Central Florida region through transportation improvements that benefit the regional network, not recreational facilities. The project reinforces and implements corresponding Comprehensive Plan policies for land use-transportation integration, multimodal transportation options, and modal connectivity. For example, the City of Orange City has committed to enhancing the pedestrian safety within their Comprehensive Plan’s Future Land Use Element, Public School Facility Element, Transportation Element and Capital Improvement Element, adopting design standards that ensure that all arterials and collectors are ―Complete Streets‖ accommodating pedestrians in a safe and holistic manner. Many of the jurisdictions partnering in this TIGER IV proposal have similar Comprehensive Plan policies, adopted using significant public outreach, to increase livability and sustainability in Central Florida.
(xiv) Environmental Sustainability:
This project will promote walking, transit use, and other alternative means of
transportation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and oil dependence, while improving air quality. Orlando’s residents averaged 30.9 vehicle miles traveled per day in 2007, among the highest of the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, as noted in Measuring Urban
Transportation Performance, a 2010 report issued by CEOs for Cities. Of these metropolitan areas, the report also ranked Orlando seventh in the nation for total hours of delay (53) and eighth in the nation for total hours of peak period travel (230) annually. These statistics are reflected in Orlando’s air quality readings, which place the Central Florida region at potential risk of air quality non-attainment in the near future. This project’s promotion of widespread and affordable alternative modes of transportation provide the region’s residents with enhanced choices that can increase environmental sustainability and help to address air quality concerns.
(xv) Safety:
This project will promote pedestrian safety, reduce pedestrian fatalities, and address the recommendations of Dangerous by Design and other national publications using
include sidewalk construction and widening, mid-block pedestrian refuge islands and signals, intersection safety projects, and other pedestrian safety construction projects. As an example, according to FHWA, providing pedestrian refuge islands at pedestrian crossings at marked crosswalks has demonstrated a 46% reduction in pedestrian crashes. They are an effective method to improve pedestrian safety on multilane roadways. Orange County has successfully implemented pedestrian refuge islands to improve pedestrian safety on Oak Ridge Road, the top roadway segment for pedestrian crashes in 2006 with eleven crashes. To improve safety, Orange County installed eleven pedestrian refuge islands on a three mile section of Oak Ridge Road, which has improved pedestrian safety and reduced crashes. With TIGER IV funding, Orange County, Winter Park, and Orlando would install pedestrian refuge islands on roadways that serve low-income communities that are heavily transit and pedestrian-dependent.
b) Job Creation and Near-Term Economic Activity
If approved, the project would create and preserve design, engineering, construction, and inspection jobs within nine jurisdictions in the four-county Central Florida area. These areas currently are designated as an Economic Development District by the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and they continue to have poverty and unemployment rates that are of concern. As such, several qualify as Economically Distressed Areas, pursuant to section 301 of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as amended (42 U.S.C. 3161), at the sub-county level. This qualification includes jurisdictions experiencing an unemployment rate at 1.2 times the national average or a poverty rate exceeding 12.5 percent. Eatonville and Osceola County have unemployment rates that are 1.2 times the national average, and Eatonville, Orange City, Orange County, Orlando, Osceola County, and Winter Park have poverty rates exceeding 12.5 percent (Table 4).
Table 4: Project Area Economic Characteristics
Project Partner Unemployment Rate Poverty Rate
DeBary 4.3 4.4 Eatonville 12.6 28.1 Longwood TBD TBD Orange City 10.5 18.9 Orange County 10.1 14.3 Orlando 14.1 18.5 Osceola County 11.1 15.8 Seminole County 9.5 10.4 Winter Park 5.4 12.6 United States 9.1 13.5 Florida 10.6 13.2
Source: Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Labor Market Statistics Center (County, State, and U.S. Unemployment Rates—Sept. 2011); U.S. Census 2009 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, 2010 1‐year Estimates, and 2005 – 2009 American Community Survey 2010 5‐Year Estimates (Poverty Rates and City Unemployment Rates—June 2011)
The Orlando Regional Multimodal Pedestrian Safety Program’s scale of individual projects enables rapid construction and completion of projects, unlike roadway or transit projects that may normally be considered under federal grant programs. However, the large number of projects presents the opportunity to promote job creation in Central Florida, an economically-distressed area, by hiring local workers, using partner local governments’ existing
minority-business and veteran-owned minority-business programs, and obtaining positions for welfare recipients as incentivized in local government procurement programs.
c) Innovation
The Orlando Regional Multimodal Pedestrian Safety Program uses innovative strategies to pursue the long-term outcomes outlined above by pursuing a regional collaboration for
pedestrian safety and for infrastructure construction on a level not seen in Central Florida to date and that is rare even on a national level. While the SunRail project to bring commuter rail to Central Florida is a regional partnership, it is facilitated by state and federal agencies. This project is distinct in that it is organized, with each jurisdiction selecting locally-appropriate projects, and includes a diverse array of projects designed to directly benefit pedestrians, particularly in low-income communities. While the project takes advantage of or enhances local infrastructure capacity in several jurisdictions, the project also is innovative in its use of a regional design-build contract to quickly and efficiently provide necessary construction project, while ensuring appropriate oversight.
The project’s multimodal focus and broad scope also are innovative and likely could not be accommodated by other state or federal programs. In this light, the TIGER IV Program has the opportunity to reward innovative collaboration on a regional level, as well as implement projects with rapid delivery and widely-distributed public benefits.
d) Partnership
The Orlando Regional Multimodal Pedestrian Safety Program is the very definition of a strong collaboration among a broad range of regional participants, who are elevating pedestrian safety to a regional imperative and providing additional initiative for the safety and integration of this mode into existing transportation planning and construction efforts.
e) Results of Benefit-Cost Analysis
A benefit-cost analysis compares all of the benefits associated with a countermeasure (e.g., crash reduction), expressed in monetary terms, to the cost of implementing the countermeasure. A benefit-cost analysis provides a quantitative measure to help transportation agencies prioritize projects and optimize the return on investment. This benefit-cost analysis is based on pedestrian accident statistics from the Florida Department of Transportation’s Safety Office and
METROPLAN ORLANDO, Central Florida’s metropolitan planning organization. The accident statistics included the severity of pedestrian accident, incident year, roadway facility, and other pertinent incident site conditions. Table 5 illustrates the accident summary developed for years 2003, 2004, and (estimated) 2010 accident data, distinguished by accident severity and incidents on State and Non-State roadway facilities.
With these unacceptable pedestrian conditions in Central Florida, the Dangerous by Design
report has ranked Orlando the nation’s most dangerous area for pedestrians, with a pedestrian fatality rate averaging three fatalities per 100,000 people. The three-county population count in the 2010 Census, which does not include the Cities of DeBary and Orange City also included in this proposal, is 1,837,359. Pedestrian accident cost metrics were obtained from the TIGER IV Notice of Funding Availability and applied to the accident statistics.
Based on these state and federal data sources, in 2010, estimated pedestrian accidents in the Central Florida area include 800 accidents, 55 pedestrian fatalities, and an overall
economic cost of over $1.7 billion. Pedestrian accidents in the Central Florida area during only a three-year timeframe included nearly 2,209 accidents, almost 155 pedestrian
fatalities, and an overall economic cost of over $4.5 billion.
Traditional benefit-cost analyses are conducted on an individual project basis, but this
application’s proposed pedestrian safety program is comprised of a large number of individual projects (367 projects), a wide variety of pedestrian project types, different project life cycles, and projected countermeasures. For these reasons, a ―straight-line‖ analysis in Table 6 compares the estimated cost of projected 2010 pedestrian accidents to the cost of the corrective
improvements, with a 1% annual maintenance cost applied over a 20-year period.
V.
PROJECT READINESS AND NEPA
All projects have been selected for their project readiness, ensuring that federal funding obligation can be done by June 30, 2013. In addition, many of the individual projects, as described in the Detailed Project List section, are smaller in scale than traditional roadway improvements or construction projects and will be contracted as design-build projects, enhancing the individual projects’ readiness and short time to completion, as well as their job creation potential.
The project is expected to qualify for a Categorical Exclusion (CE) under the appropriate modal implementing procedures specified under 23 CFR 771.117(c) for construction of bicycle and pedestrian facilities, excluding those requiring construction in new right-of-way. For many of the pedestrian safety projects listed, no right-of-way is needed, rendering the NEPA process not applicable.
VI. PREAPPLICATION CHANGES
The preapplication form submitted for this application included nine agencies as project parties: Orange County; Osceola County; Seminole County; the Cities of DeBary and Orange City (Volusia County); the Cities of Orlando and Winter Park (Orange County); City of Longwood (Seminole County); Town of Eatonville (Orange County). Subsequent to the preapplication submittal, the Florida Department of Transportation joined the application as a project party with 27 additional sidewalk projects in Orange County and a commitment of an additional $4.1 million in local funding, as well as the expressed support of Florida Department of
Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad.
With these changes, the Orlando Regional Multimodal Pedestrian Safety Program local funding commitments now total 55% of project costs, creating a competitive application among TIGER IV requests for urban areas and a true regional and interdisciplinary partnership.
City of Longwood Pedestrian Safety Sidewalk Projects
Project Name Project Limits Project Cost Estimated Length (Ft) Project Description
From To
Candyland
Multimodal Connector
Church Ave. SunRail Station
Grant St. (Via Oleander and
Orange) $234,000 3,580 12' shared use path
Oleander Bridge $250,000 Bridge to connect SunRail station to surrounding
neighborhoods
Grant St. Orange Ave. Candyland Park $317,400 4,864 12' shared use path
Connector Candyland Park Cross Seminole Trail $270,000 4,224 12' shared use path
SunRail Multimodal
Connector South
West Warren Ave. Rangeline Road SR 434 $270,000 4,224 12' shared use path
Church Ave. Rangeline Road Reiter Park $345,000 5,280 12' shared use path
Church Ave. Reiter Park SunRail Station $105,000 1,584 12' shared use path
SunRail Multimodal
Connector West
Rangeline Rd. EE Williamson Church Ave. $60,000 1,584 5' sidewalk, one side
$1,851,400 25,340
$370,280
Longitude Latitude
City of Orlando
Pedestrian Refuge Islands
Sidewalk Project Project Limits
Roadway Functional Classification Estimated Project Cost
Start Location End Location
From To Longitude Latitude Longitude Latitude
Vineland Rd Walden Cir Conroy Rd Collector Urban $90,000 -81.43842 28.49149 -81.43807 28.49135
Ivey Ln Carter St Cynthia St Collector Urban $90,000 -81.43431 28.53438 -81.43443 28.54208
Raleigh St Timberleaf Bv Lake Fern Rd Collector Urban $90,000 -81.45234 28.52771 -81.44553 28.52779
Raleigh St Lenox Bv Ivey Ln Collector Urban $90,000 -81.44160 28.52777 -81.43428 28.52786
Columbia St Bruton Bv Mable Butler Av Collector Urban $90,000 -81.42609 28.52696 -81.42093 28.52698
Pershing Av Dixie Belle Dr Semoran Bv Collector Urban $90,000 -81.31436 28.49884 -81.31022 28.49887
Pershing Av Semoran Bv Commander Dr Collector Urban $90,000 -81.31022 28.49887 -81.30620 28.49890
Curry Ford Rd Conway Gardens Rd Conway Rd Arterial Urban $90,000 -81.33930 28.52417 -81.33103 28.52427
Curry Ford Rd Gaston Foster Rd Dixie Belle Dr Arterial Urban $90,000 -81.32485 28.52429 -81.31454 28.52438
Orange Center Bv John Young Py Ohio Av Arterial Urban $90,000 -81.41389 28.53183 -81.41044 28.53198
Orange Center Bv Ohio Av Tampa Av Arterial Urban $90,000 -81.41044 28.53198 -81.40539 28.53196
Orange Av Kaley Av Grant St Arterial Urban $90,000 -81.37639 28.52021 -81.37636 28.51657
Michigan St Kunze Av Orange Av Arterial Urban $90,000 -81.37999 28.51289 -81.37630 28.51288
Michigan St Osceola Av Keystone Dr Arterial Urban $90,000 -81.37017 28.51302 -81.36603 28.51303
Estimated Totals: $1,260,000
City of Orlando Audible Pedestrian Safety Signals
Intersections Func. Class.Roadway Cost Project Coordinates
Longitude Latitude
Colonial Drive Ferguson Dr Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.42008 28.55273 Colonial Drive John Young Py Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.41382 28.55278 Colonial Drive Orange Blossom Tl Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.39555 28.55293 Colonial Drive Westmoreland Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.39331 28.55296 Colonial Drive Parramore Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.38908 28.55295 Colonial Drive Hughey Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.38313 28.55301 Colonial Drive Orange Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37919 28.55310 Colonial Drive Magnolia Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37687 28.55309 Colonial Drive Summerlin Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.36858 28.55317 Colonial Drive Mills Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.36444 28.55314 Colonial Drive Fern Creek Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.36030 28.55310 Colonial Drive Bumby Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.35204 28.55316 Colonial Drive Primrose Dr Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.34789 28.55324 Colonial Drive Maguire Bv Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.34474 28.55328 Colonial Drive Herndon Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.33747 28.55342 Colonial Drive Humphries Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.32734 28.55336 Colonial Drive Old Chaney Hwy Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.32090 28.55366 Columbia St Bruton Bv Collector Urban $15,000 -81.42609 28.52697 Columbia St Mable Butler Av Collector Urban $15,000 -81.42094 28.52698 Columbia St John Young Py Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.41646 28.52598 Conway Rd Michigan St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.33093 28.51330 CR Smith St John Young Py Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.41417 28.53455 Curry Ford Rd Semoran Bv Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.31039 28.52343 Curry Ford Rd Conway Garden Dr Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.33934 28.52416 Curry Ford Rd Conway Rd Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.33099 28.52424 Division Av Central Bv Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38494 28.54200 Division Av Gore St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.38483 28.53107 Garland Av Amelia St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38082 28.54937 Garland Av Livingston St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38080 28.54754 Garland Av Washington St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38086 28.54383 Garland Av Central Bv Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38074 28.55037 Garland Av Church St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38071 28.54030 Garland Av South St Collector Urban $15,000 -81. 8065 28. 3840 Gatlin Av Semoran Bv Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.31017 28.49520 Hughey Av Amelia St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38306 28.54940 Hughey Av Livingston St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38296 28.54748 Hughey Av Washington St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38287 28.54384 John Young Py Harwood St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.41372 28.54838 Kirkman Rd LB McLeod Rd Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.45897 28.50462
Kirkman Rd Conway Rd Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.45893 28.49388 Kirkman Rd Vineland Rd Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.45884 28.48282 Kirkman Rd Major Bv Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.45876 28.47783 Magnolia Av Robinson St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37751 28.54567 Magnolia Av Washington St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.37746 28.54355 Magnolia Av Central Bv Collector Urban $15,000 -81.37745 28.54214 Magnolia Av Church St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.37743 28.54038 Magnolia Av South St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.37738 28.53839 Magnolia Av Anderson St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.37737 28.53708 Mercy Dr WD Judge Dr Collector Urban $15,000 -81.43053 28.55980 Mercy Dr Colonial Dr Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.43038 28.55264 Michigan St Orange Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37629 28.51291 Michigan St Delaney Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81. 7219 28. 1293 Michigan St Mills Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.36395 28.51310 Orange Av King St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37294 28.57662 Orange Av Rollins St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37284 28.57423 Orange Av Princeton St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37272 28.57136 Orange Av Pineloch Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37629 28.50924 Orange Av Gore St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37649 28.53110 Orange Av Columbia St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37643 28.52788 Orange Av Miller St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37640 28.52386 Orange Av Kaley Av Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37633 28.52018 Orange Av Amelia St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37917 28.54941 Orange Av Robinson St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37914 28.54565 Orange Av Washington St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37908 28.54357 Orange Av Central Bv Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37903 28.54211 Orange Av Church St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37903 28.54042 Orange Av Anderson St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.38009 28.53660 Orange Av Marks St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37290 28.55670 Orange Blossom Tl Robinson St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.39733 28.54561 Orange Blossom Tl Washington St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.39727 28.54386 Orange Blossom Tl Central Bv Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.39729 28.54199 Orange Blossom Tl South St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.39723 28.53817 Orange Blossom Tl Anderson St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.39721 28.53648 Orange Blossom Tl Gore St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.39711 28.53112 Orange Center Bv John Young Py Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.41389 28.53182 Orange Center Bv Ohio Av Collector Urban $15,000 -81.41048 28.53197 Parramore Av Robinson St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.38908 28.54572 Parramore Av Washington St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38903 28.54385 Parramore Av Central Bv Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38902 28.54199 Parramore Av South St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38898 28.53826 Parramore Av Gore St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.38887 28.53108 Pershing Av Semoran Bv Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.31017 28.49887 Raleigh St Kirkman Rd Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.45926 28.52797
Raleigh St Deerbrook Dr Collector Urban $15,000 -81.44664 28.52776 Raleigh St Kozart St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.44053 28.52782 Raleigh St Ivey Ln Collector Urban $15,000 -81.43432 28.52784 Rosalind Av Livingston St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37673 28.54752 Rosalind Av Robinson St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37591 28.54568 Rosalind Av Washington St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37588 28.54363 Rosalind Av Central Bv Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37587 28.54216 Rosalind Av South St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37583 28.53841 Rosalind Av Anderson St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.37580 28.53699 Semoran Bv La Costa Dr Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.31037 28.52759 Semoran Bv Lake Underhill Rd Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.31055 28.53897 Semoran Bv Dahlia Dr Arterial Urban $15,000 -81.31060 28.54578 Westmoreland Dr Robinson St Arterial Urban $15,000 -81. 9321 28. 4571 Westmoreland Dr Washington St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.39319 28.54385 Westmoreland Dr Central Bv Collector Urban $15,000 -81.39316 28.54198 Westmoreland Dr South St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.39315 28.53823 Westmoreland Dr Gore St Collector Urban $15,000 -81.39303 28.53115
Total Estimated Cost: $1,500,000
Osceola County Proposed Pedestrian Safety Sidewalk Projects
Project Name Project Limits Length
(ft)
Begin Project End Project Cost Estimate
Begin End Longitude Latitude Longitude Latitude
SR 535/Vineland Rd Sidewalk
Kyngs Heath Rd Polynesian Isle Blvd 2,600 -81.74990 28.33570 -81.48350 28.34180 $ 182,000 International Dr Sidewalk 550' N of US 192 980' S of Osceola Pkwy 2,800 -81.52130 28.33450 -81.52380 28.34180 $ 196,000
Koa St Sidewalk New Castle Rd Sidewalk adjacent
to Elem. School 3,200 -81.49820 28.15510 -81.48850 28.15570 $ 224,000 Pleasant Hill Rd Sidewalk Existing sidewalks N of Brighton Lakes N Pineridge Cir 1,310 -81.43890 28.22670 -81.43710 28.22970 $ 91,700
Neptune Road Existing
sidewalk east of Old Canoe Creek
780' east to the
existing sidewalk 780 -81.3160 28.2486 -81.3136 28.2486 $ 70,200