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FAST Planning briefs borough assembly on how transportation projects are selected and how state vetoes affect schedules
Summary
Jackson Fox of FAST Planning outlined the MPO's long-range and short-range planning, scoring and nomination process, program pools for air-quality and alternative projects, and said recent state line-item vetoes to match funding have delayed some highway projects.
Jackson Fox, executive director of FAST Planning, told the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly Committee of the Whole on July 17 that the metropolitan planning organization's project selection process is federally required and relies on a 20-year long-range transportation plan and a four-year Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). FAST Planning staff described scoring criteria, advisory committees and how projects move from long-range lists into the four-year funding plan.
FAST Planning, Fox said, is required for the urbanized area to receive federal highway and transit funds. The MPO allocates an approximate local sub-allocation of federal money for projects in its boundary; Fox said FAST Planning's annual local allocation is about $12.5 million across multiple funding categories and that the organization aims to spend roughly 80% on traditional roadway…
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