A Plan for the Capital Improvement Plan
Winston Lumpkins
I've been mulling over the Capital Improvement Plan.
There are 2 things I really want to see
addressed, and I think the members of PBPAC may agree.
1.
begin ordering extra sidewalk snow plows & a couple brush machines, so that next winter (2023/'24) we
could begin to approach compliance with the city's own ordinance.
(they take too long to deliver, so this winter is doomed to 3 day
snow clearance).
2. At least partially fund the remainder
of the Libbytown trail (AKA Union branch trail).
I've
come up with a little plan to try our best to make these happen:
October: Write an official PBPAC letter to the Manager &
council asking that they find a way to work those 2 things into the
budget.
Ask the list-serve to ask one friend who complains about
snow removal or loves the Back bay trail & wishes it connected to
the fore river parkway to email their councilors about it. Try to flood them with emails. Really see how many we can get.
November & December: Write an op-ed, Maine Voices column
explaining why the sidewalks take 3 days to clear & what steps
the city needs to take to comply with its own ordinance in a few
years- AKA our sidewalk snow plow plan from last year, re-hashed as
an op-ed. Send after the election has blown over & they need something to print.
Renew pressure through emails & non-agenda public
comment.
~Winston
Winston Lumpkins IV (he/him/his)
Chair, Portland Bicycle &
Pedestrian Advisory Committee
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winston....@gmail.com
207-408-1508
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Winston Lumpkins
It's just going to be so sad to be almost there, and then have to struggle through Saint John Street, go up congress against traffic etc.... Though bypassing Park Ave will be awesome & perhaps we could advocate for a temporary right hand, reverse direction bike lane up congress...
~Winston
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Winston Lumpkins
If we ask, and the study is in limbo or unfinished, they could always give it a better kick than we can...
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Winston Lumpkins
I've heard back from Bruce, he says:
"We are finalizing the scope and fee with the consultant now for the first phase (identifying the alignment to design). It should start within the next month after we get them under contract."
Certainly, if they do include funding, that at least won't cause a slowdown once the study & engineering has been completed. Ideally, probably from a fiscal perspective as well as a completionist perspective, it would all be done more or less at once- perhaps, as I think we're doing for the engineering phase, we could even hire the same contractors the State hires for their portion to complete ours. Maybe that's too optimistic, but I can't help but think it would be cheaper that way.
It would at least make a lot more sense than coming back with someone else 2 years later, or just never funding our portion & throwing away any money we have allocated for design...
Winston Lumpkins IV (he/him/his)
Chair, Portland Bicycle &
Pedestrian Advisory Committee
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Winston Lumpkins
I got a little more context on the
Union Branch Trail & Brighton Ave through a quick call with
Bruce:
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The $2 million for Brighton Ave is through PACTS (The
Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation System), for
final design and construction. Significantly more construction
funding will be needed than has been allocated so far. The
design process for Brighton will hopefully start this fall or winter
& will be managed by the DOT.
(Steven is right & money
can sit in the CIP budget for some time- Brighton just isn't an
example of this)
The design and
construction of the Union Branch Trail from Forest Ave to Park
Ave is fully funded- with construction 100%
funded by MaineDOT, a rare happening, part of the land swap
deal completed earlier this year. That
section's construction won't include the
trestle bridge. The likely timeline is: Summer/Fall
2023 design completed, project goes out to bid. Spring 2024 project
begins construction.
From there the Libbytown Pathway, the
second section connecting to the Portland transportation center,
could run over the trestle bridge, along the CSX line to congress
Street & to the fore river parkway via County way (also
acquired by the City as part of the land swap), but that will
depend on the new owner of CSX, as the
city only owns up to the south end of the trestle bridge.
Otherwise,
one possible alignment identified in 2017 would
run along Park, to Marston street & down Fredric street to the
Fore River Parkway. This would take longer, with
its alignment decisions integrated
into the Libbytown study, which is looking at whether Congress &
Park should remain one way. Either option is
ideally a separated multi-use trail.
We have enough
funds from the city and MaineDOT to
determine which of those alignments we'll be designing for. We
don't yet have money set aside for the full design process, but funding to fully fund the design process has already been applied
for. We'll know in January 2023 if they have been approved by the
Maine DOT.
Planning staff will be applying for construction funding for the
Libbytown pathway segment (Park Ave to PTC) once an alignment and a more
defined cost estimate has been determined. Right now there is a
placeholder we put in last fall for $250,000 for a local match for a
future grant application for FY25 (in the FY23-28 document).
Likely, it will be funded through grants of some kind- PACTS, DOT, or
federal reconnecting communities money (as Libbytown has been pretty
thoroughly divided by 295). Of course we will have to cover 20-25% of
the cost through matching funds..
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I had thought that the city might have to pay for
the entirety of this second section of the trail. Fortunately, we probably won't.
Strategically, I think we should probably focus on the sidewalk snowplow issue for the CIP Budget letter. We'll continue following the progress of the Libbytown Pathway, ready to advocate for it once necessary. I would hope that, should we have funding for 75 or 80% of its construction from gants, the council would fund the rest pretty happily, but it's still worth monitoring closely.
~Winston
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