Public transportation : New Starts program challenges and preliminary observations on expediting project development.

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• Alternative Title:
  New Starts Program challenges and preliminary observations on expediting project development
• Creators:
  Clowers, A. Nicole.
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Federal aid
  • Federal assistance programs
  • Grant aid
  • Government funding
  • Subsidies
  • Federal aid to transportation--United States
  • Local transit--United States
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GAO-09-763T
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Abstract:
  The New Starts program is an ; important source of new capital ; investment in mass transportation. ; As required by the Safe, ; Accountable, Flexible, Efficient ; Transportation Equity Act: A ; Legacy for Users, the Federal ; Transit Administration (FTA) must ; prioritize transit projects for ; funding by evaluating, rating, and ; recommending projects on the ; basis of specific financial ; commitment and project ; justification criteria, such as costeffectiveness, ; economic ; development effects, land use, and ; environmental benefits. To be ; eligible for federal funding, a ; project must advance through the ; different project development ; phases of the New Starts program, ; including alternatives analysis, ; preliminary engineering, and final ; design. Using the statutorily ; identified criteria, FTA evaluates ; projects as a condition for ; advancement into each project ; development phase of the program. ; This testimony discusses the (1) ; key challenges associated with the ; New Starts program and (2) ; options that could help expedite ; project development in the New ; Starts program. This testimony is ; based on GAO’s extensive body of ; work on the New Starts program ; and ongoing work—as directed by ; Congress. For this work, GAO ; reviewed FTA documents and ; interviewed FTA officials, sponsors ; of New Starts projects, and ; representatives from industry ; associations. The FTA reviewed ; the information in this testimony ; and provided technical comments.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17400/dot_17400_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 248.95 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cddc58c594aa04f367ae82002bf9e5c7dea06c720dae789d6c2730772df1ff7a