Amendment 1 -

OKI 2030 REGIONAL

TRANSPORTATION PLAN

March, 2009

Prepared by the
Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana
Regional Council of Governments
 Acknowledgments

Title Amendment 1 - OKI 2030 Regional Transportation Plan

Date March 9, 2009

Agency Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments

Mark R. Policinski, Executive Director

Project Manager Robert W. Koehler, P.E.

Participants Robyn Bancroft

Andrew Reser, AICP
Dave Shuey
Mark Paine
Regina B. Fauver

The preparation of this document was financed cooperatively by the Federal Highway
Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Transportation Cabinet, the Ohio Department of Transportation, and the units of local and county
government in the OKI region. The opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this
document are those of the OKI Regional Council of Governments and are not necessarily those of
the U.S. Department of Transportation. This report does not constitute a standard, specification,
or regulation
INTRODUCTION
This report constitutes an amendment to the regional transportation plan
prepared by the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI)
for the Cincinnati metropolitan area. The OKI 2030 Regional Transportation Plan
“Setting Your Transportation Landscape” (the Plan) was originally adopted by the
OKI Board of Directors on June 12, 2008.

Periodically, as needs and conditions change, it becomes necessary to modify the

Plan. This amendment is undertaken to address two items: 1) Incorporation of
projects eligible for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (federal
stimulus bill), 2) Update any project level information as necessary, and 3) Minor
revisions to text and figures.

A copy of the full OKI 2030 Regional Transportation Plan is available on CD,
printed document or on-line at www.oki.org.

PROJECT RECOMMENDATIONS
The primary purpose of this amendment is to allow OKI to incorporate projects
to be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (federal stimulus
bill). This amendment includes projects that are either new to the plan or have
new funding sources as a result of the federal stimulus bill.

Projects that add capacity are considered non-exempt with respect to air quality
conformity and trigger the need to evaluate their regional impacts in terms of
traffic and air quality. This amendment to the OKI 2030 Regional Transportation
Plan includes both exempt and non-exempt projects.

Non-exempt projects that are new to the plan are added to the travel model
assumptions, normally within the highway network, and the impacts on regional
emissions are evaluated.

Non-exempt projects that represent a change in scope of an existing plan project

are required to be added to the travel model assumptions, and the impacts on
regional emissions are evaluated. A change in the scope of a project that
changes a roadway’s capacity triggers an updated air quality conformity
determination. This type of change could be either in termini or breadth of
improvement, or both.

Non-exempt projects that represent a change in timing of an existing plan

project may be required to be part of travel model assumptions for the
appropriate analysis year.

Only one project in this amendment are considered non-exempt, however it is an

are existing Plan project and no change in scope or timing is made, thus OKI will

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rely on the existing air quality determination made on the current Plan as
permitted under federal guidance. The remaining projects are exempt and do not
trigger an air quality finding. Refer to the Transportation and Air Quality section
below.

This amendment also includes new revenue estimates expected to be received

via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (federal stimulus bill). Fiscal
constraint discussion is provided later in the document.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Projects

To respond to the recession, President Obama and Congressional leadership
enacted an economic recovery (i.e. stimulus) package, worth nearly to $1 trillion.
This effort would address President Obama’s plan to create 2.5 million jobs by
2011. The intent of funding through an economic recovery package is to
stimulate the economy by creating direct and indirect jobs. Therefore, the money
will be targeted to “ready-to-go” projects, not planning activities.

Funding from the Act for transportation projects is being distributed primarily
through state DOT’s, MPO’s and transit agencies. OKI will receive (sub-allocated)
funding through traditional Surface Transportation Program processes. Eligible
projects are being funded with 100% federal funds (i.e. no non-federal matching
funds are required). Transit agencies received a separate allocation consistent
with the existing process of distributing FTA 5307 capital funds. Each agency in
the region determined their projects using their allocation. All Title 23
requirements such as design standards, public involvement, NEPA requirements,
fiscal and air quality conformity etc. apply. This Plan amendment includes
transportation projects being funded by all sources of federal stimulus funds.

Projects were selected based on guidance received from the oversight agency of
record. OKI transportation projects were selected using guidance from the
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The following criteria help guide project
selection: must be a transportation project, roadway projects must be on a
federal functionally classified roadway, the project must be “shovel ready” and
the project needs to create or retain jobs.

The following tables show the recommended projects. Table 1 includes transit
projects. Table 2 includes Ohio projects. Table 3 includes Dearborn County
projects.

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 Table 1 - Recommended Transit Projects
Action Project ID Sponsor Description Cost
Add 111204 Butler Transit 5 Replacement <30' buses $375,000
Add 111304 Butler Transit 8 Expansion <30' buses $400,000
Add 114304 Butler Transit Construct Storage Facility $670,000
Add 114403 Butler Transit Rehab/Renovate Facility $30,000
Add 114211 Butler Transit 4 Replacement Support Vehicles $120,000
Add 114207 Butler Transit ADP Hardware Replacement $15,000
Add 114220 Butler Transit Misc Support Equipment $35,000
Add Middletown Transit Replace 2 ADA Vehicles in 2010 $145,000
Add CTC Purchase of 4 Hybrid Light Transit vehicles $500,000
Add CTC Purchase of 1 Medium duty bus $110,000
Add CTC Purchase of upto 2 support vehicles $60,000
Add CTC Construction of a new operations facility $700,000
Add 11.12.04 SORTA 6 30' Hybrid Buses for Arts Line $2,100,000
Add 11.62.02 SORTA CAD/AVL System Replacement $8,671,000
Add 11.12.01 SORTA "Mini-Hybrid" Thermal Management Bus Kit fuel
efficiency retrofit $525,000
Add 11.12.03 SORTA 12 30' Hybrid buses $4,092,000
Add 11.12.01 SORTA 57 Hybrid Buses $37,500,000
Add 11.12.01 SORTA 22 new coaches with chair lifts $5,148,416
Add 11.12.01 SORTA 4 new coaches with chair lifts $1,103,232
Add 11.44.03 SORTA Concrete driveway upgrades at fleet facility $24,000
Add 11.42.09 SORTA Driveway reconfiguration $192,000
Add 11.44.03 SORTA Facility exterior door upgrades $125,000
Add 11.42.07 SORTA Fleet watch RF Hubos and system $299,732
Add 11.12.06 SORTA 9 Hybrid articulated vehicles $7,200,000
Add 11.42.06 SORTA Portable and pit lifts for articulated buses $100,000
Add 11.42.06 SORTA Portable and pit lifts for articulated buses $140,000
Add 11.12.04 SORTA 12 vehicle replacements 65/35 $1,063,399
Add 11.12.04 SORTA 8 Hybrid minibuses for neighborhood circulator
vehicles $1,300,000
Add TANK Bus Replacement $2,812,500
Add TANK Replacement of bus automated vehicle location $4,000,000
systems
Add TANK Facility Improvements $150,000
Add TANK Farebox Replacement $2,500,000
Add TANK Renovate Admin. Facility $187,000
Add TANK Concrete Rehab $450,000

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 Table 2 – Ohio Projects
Action Sponsor Facility County/Location Description Cost
Add Butler Crescentville Butler/Windisch Rd. Resurfacing, pavement $94,569
County Rd. To Mosteller Rd. markings and RPM's on
various roads
Add Butler Eaton Rd. Butler/Beissinger Resurfacing, pavement $407,699
County Rd. to Taylor School markings and RPM's on
Rd. various roads
Add Butler Muhlhauser Butler/SR 747 To Resurfacing, pavement $449,577
County Rd. International Bl. markings and RPM's on
various roads
Add Butler River Rd. Butler/County Line to Resurfacing, pavement $139,353
County Fairfield Corp. markings and RPM's on
various roads
Add Butler River Rd. Butler/Corp. Line to Resurfacing, pavement $71,983
County Corp. Line South of markings and RPM's on
Lake Circle various roads
Add Butler Smith Rd. Butler/SR 747 To Resurfacing, pavement $49,701
County Bridge markings and RPM's on
various roads
Add Butler Smith Rd. Butler/Bridge to Resurfacing, pavement $120,453
County Beckett Rd. markings and RPM's on
various roads
Add Butler Tylersville Rd. Butler/Bypass 4 to Resurfacing, pavement $42,808
County Morris Rd. markings and RPM's on
various roads
Add Butler Tylersville Rd. Butler/Fairfield Corp Resurfacing, pavement $332,274
County Line to SR 747 markings and RPM's on
various roads
Add Butler Tylersville Rd. Butler/SR 747 To Resurfacing, pavement $378,230
County Lesourdsville West markings and RPM's on
Chester Rd. various roads
Add Butler Tylersville Rd. Butler/Lesourdsville Resurfacing, pavement $257,434
County West Chester Rd. To markings and RPM's on
Lakotal Hills Dr. various roads
Add Butler Tylersville Rd. Butler/Lady Anne To Resurfacing, pavement $324,333
County IR 75 markings and RPM's on
various roads
Add Butler Tylersville Rd. Butler/IR 75 To Cox Resurfacing, pavement $232,196
County Rd. markings and RPM's on
various roads
Add Middletown University Butler/Between Resurfacing $3,000,000
Blvd. Reinartz Blvd. and
Breiel Blvd.
PID Monroe SR 63-Britton Butler/each New signal at Britton, $208,000
83074 & SR 63-Main intersection signal improvements at
Revise St. (Cin-Day Main St.
Funding Rd.)
Source
and Add
Funds

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 Table 2 – Ohio Projects
Action Sponsor Facility County/Location Description Cost
Add Oxford Traffic Signal Butler/All signaled Replacement of $50,000
LED Upgrade intersections incandescant signals with
LED
Add Oxford US27 / High Butler/Beech St. to Rehabilitation of brick $1,250,000
St College Avenue street and streetscape
Add Oxford US27 / Butler/High Street Intersection $350,000
Patterson and Patterson Ave. Improvements and signal
Ave. installation
Add Oxford US27 South Butler/US27- Butler/Installation of new $600,000
Patterson Ave. to sidewalk to service new
Corp limits High School
PID Clermont Amelia Olive Clermont/Intersectio Includes access road, $3,817,094
75303 County Branch & SR n of SR125 and turn lanes, curb and
Revise 125 Amelia Olive Branch gutter, extended Amelia
Funding Olive Branch Road and
Source park-and-ride
Add Clermont Merwin Ten Clermont/Locust Full Depth Repair and $144,000
County Mile Road Corner Road to SR Resurfacing of Merwin
125 Ten Mile Road
Add Clermont Nine Mile Clermont/US52 to Full Depth Repair and $318,400
County Tobasco SR125 Resurfacing of Nine Mile
Road Tobasco Road
Add Clermont Wards Corner Clermont/SR126 to Full Depth Repair and $337,600
County SR48 Resurfacing
Add Addyston Main Street Hamilton/Dining Street Rehabilitation, $376,000
Lane to Catalina Resurface, Replace
Apts. (3000') Curbs/Walk, Improve
Drainage
Add Arlington Waldman Hamilton/intersection replace entire signal $100,000
Hts Drive/Galbrait system at intersection
h Road
Add Blue Ash Blue Ash Hamilton/Throughout Add emergency $390,000
Traffic Signal Blue Ash preemption on traffic
Preemption signals on main routes
Add Blue Ash Blue Ash Hamilton/Throughout Replace 25 incandescent $375,000
Traffic Signal Blue Ash traffic signals with LED,
Upgrade add UPS
Add Blue Ash Reed Hamilton/RHH - Remove deteriorated $840,000
Hartman Cooper to Glendale- pavement, replace with
Highway Milford SAMI and overlay
Add Cheviot Glenmore Hamilton/Harrison Total curb replacement, $662,000
Avenue Ave. to South Corp. base repair, resurfacing
Line
Add Cheviot Harrison Hamilton/Lovell to Curb replacement, base $635,000
Avenue School Section repair, resurfacing
Phase 2
Add Cincinnati Computerized Hamilton/Cincinnati The City’s Computerized $1,000,000
Traffic Control Traffic Control Traffic Control System
System (CTCS)
Software software/hardware
upgrade

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 Table 2 – Ohio Projects
Action Sponsor Facility County/Location Description Cost
PID Cincinnati US 27 Hamilton/Northside - Address safety concerns, $880,000
77484 Colerain Avenue improve inadequate
Revise between Virginia Av pavement width and add
Funding and I-74 Exit ramps traffic capacity
Source and at the
and Add intersection of US27
Funds and Virginia Av/West
Fork Rd.
Add Columbia Bramble and Hamilton/Bramble Mill, resurface and $2,000,000
Township Plainville Ave and Plainville reconstuct
Road Road within
Township limits
Add Forest Park Winton & Hamilton/Winton Rd. New signal poles and $150,000
Sharon Road / Sharon Rd. signals
Intersection
Add Glendale Sharon Road Hamilton/Sharon Resurfacing 1450’ $261,000
Road
PID Hamilton Central Hamilton/Cincinnati Construction of Phase I $1,500,000
77164 County Riverfront Central Riverfront Intermodal Facility
Revise Intermodal
Funding Center
Source Garage
and Add Phase I
Funds
Add Montgomer E. Kemper Hamilton/East Install Sidewalk $125,000
y Rd. Kemper Road
Add Newtown Village of Hamilton County/ The sidewalk will improve $1,000,000
Newtown from east of the pedestrian link
Riverhills Drive between two subdivisions
adjacent to SR32, at the top of Riverhills to
connecting the the business district and
existing sidewalk the Loveland Bike Trail.
network in the Provides multi-modal
Newtown Road access from Meridian
portion of the Biosciences to the main
business district. business district
Add Sharonville Cornell Rd. Hamilton/Cornell Rd, Culvert Extension and $500,000
450' West of Swing Roadway Embankment
Rd. Stabilization
Add Sharonville Fields-Ertel Hamilton/Reed Turn Lane Addition and $875,000
Rd. Hartman Hwy to 600' Sight Distance
West of Copperfield Improvement
Dr.
Add Sharonville Mosteller Hamilton/Sharon Rd. Total Curb Replacement, $1,159,000
Road to Kemper Rd. Base Repair, Resurfacing
Add Sharonville Chester Rd. Hamilton/Chester Steel Pedestrian Bridge $260,000
Rd, South Repair and Painting
Pedestrian Bridge at
Princeton High
School

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 Table 2 – Ohio Projects
Action Sponsor Facility County/Location Description Cost
Add Springdale Northland Bl. Hamilton/Northland Repair concrete base, $950,000
resurface, intersection
improvements, pedestrian
walkway
Add Terrace Wooster Pike Hamilton/West of Pavement and catch $837,200
Park Elm St. to Terrace basin repair, curb and
Park/Milford Corp. drive apron replacement,
Line install curb ramps as
required, sidewalk
replacement.
Add Lebanon Lebanon Warren/Lebanon, Replace 26 traffic signal $300,000
Traffic Signal OH heads and pedestrian
Improvement heads with LED signals
s and upgrade contollers
Add Lebanon Railroad Line Warren/Lebanon, Replace 1,200 defective $180,000
Improvement OH rail ties
s
Add Mason Main St. Warren/Various Storm and Roadway $350,000
Improvement Improvements
s
Add Mason Western Row Warren/Western Add 2 Left Turn Lanes $307,880
Row Road and
Cintas Bl.
Add Warren Wilmington Warren/ Little Miami Replace Bridge $900,000
Road Bridge River Superstructure
Replacement

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 Table 3 - Dearborn Indiana Projects
Action Sponsor Facility County/Location Description Cost
Add Dearborn N. Dearborn Dearborn/N. Dearborn Chip & Seal/Fog Seal $750,000
#0900096 Rd/N. Hogan and N. Hogan Rd.
Rd
Add Dearborn SR 46 Dearborn/SR1 to US52 District Pavement $634,571
#0810415 Project (Non-I),HMA
Overlay, Preventive
Maintenance
Add Dearborn Old US-52 Dearborn/I-74 to West Resurface $600,000
#0900092 Harrison Limits
Revise Dearborn Conwell Dearborn/US 50 to Road Rehabilitation $4,216,734
funding Street Exporting Street (3R/4R Standards)
source
#0088850
Add Dearborn State Line Dearborn/Portion of 3 Resurface $650,000
#0900095 Rd/Pribble Roads
Rd/Kaiser Rd
Add Dearborn York Ridge Dearborn/SR-1 to N. Resurface $1,300,000
#0900093 Road Dearborn
Add Dearborn Weisburg Dearborn/SR-48 to N. Resurface $1,000,000
#0900094 Road Dearborn

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OTHER MODIFICATIONS
In addition to incorporating the AARA projects, this amendment takes the
opportunity to make minor corrections identified after publication of the June
2008 version of the Plan. These are listed below in Table 4.

Table 4- Corrections to June 2008 Plan Document

Page 15-13 (last sentence)
These figures do not include the approximate $1.03 $1.325 billion programmed
in the current 2008-2011 Transportation Improvement Program.
Action: replace $1.03 billion with $1.325 billion

Page 15-15 (last paragraph second sentence) ____

As outlined above in the Funding Expectations section, approximately $11.273
billion is estimated to be available for all transportation expenditures in the OKI
region over the life of the plan.
Action: replace $7.53 billion with $11.273 billion.

Page 15-15 (last paragraph third sentence) _________

The estimated cost of the recommendations of this plan including $1.325
billion in the current TIP is an estimated $7.2 $11.065 billion.
Action: add the following text (including $1.325 billion in the current TIP) and
replace $7.2 billion with $11.065 billion.

Page 16-4 through 16-7 ____

Figures 16-4 through 16-7: Data source information added.

AMENDED FISCAL CONSTRAINT DETERMINATION

As part of the long range plan, the costs of implementing the recommendations
are compared with the funding expected to be available. The Plan’s financial
analysis was developed in response to the requirements for a “financially
constrained plan” that were introduced in ISTEA and continued in TEA-21 and
SAFETEA-LU. The Plan considers capital and Operation and Maintenance (O&M)
costs associated with the preservation and continued operation of the existing
transportation system. It also projects revenues from all sources which will be
available to pay for these improvements. Chapter 16 of the Plan describes in
detail the base financing plan for the region.

Determination of fiscal constraint for this amendment relies on the existing

analysis performed on the original Plan adopted by the OKI Board of Directors in

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June, 2008 and on the expectation of funds from the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) also referred to as the Stimulus Bill. Final
funding levels are not known at this time but guidance from the Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) suggest that
the amount will be approximately 200% of fiscal year 2008 funding. This means
that OKI could receive approximately $50 million through FHWA and $36 million
through FTA to allocate to projects that are eligible and would meet the “shovel
ready” requirements of the ARRA. FTA funds will be allocated using existing
formula percentages for the region’s transit agencies.

Additionally, FHWA and FTA have encouraged metropolitan planning

organizations to initiate the Plan and TIP amendment process in order to be able
to respond quickly once the Act is signed into law. This amendment is primarily
for the purpose of incorporating projects from the ARRA. The final project list
may need to be adjusted to match exact funding levels once that is known. OKI
will assure that this is accomplished in order to produce a Plan that remains
fiscally constrained.

TRANSPORTATION AIR QUALITY CONFORMITY

Transportation conformity is a mechanism to ensure that federal funding and
approval are given to those transportation activities that are consistent with the
air quality goals of the State Implementation Plans for Indiana, Kentucky and
Ohio. Pursuant to provisions of the CAAA of 1990, U.S. EPA designated a nine
county area in the Cincinnati area as a nonattainment area for ozone under the
eight-hour ozone standard in April 2004. The Cincinnati ozone nonattainment
area includes Lawrenceburg Township in Dearborn County Indiana, the Kentucky
counties of Boone, Campbell and Kenton, and the Ohio counties of Butler,
Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton and Warren. In December 2004, U.S. EPA
designated an eight county area as nonattainment for fine particulate matter
(PM2.5) under the annual PM2.5 standard. The boundaries of the PM2.5
nonattainment area are identical to ozone nonattainment area excluding Clinton
County, OH. The OKI Regional Council of Governments (OKI), as the
Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), consists of Dearborn, Boone,
Campbell, Kenton, Butler, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren counties.

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All projects, with the exception of PID 75303 (Amelia Olive Branch and SR125
Intersection Improvement), are exempt from air quality conformity requirements.
Exempt project types are defined in the federal transportation conformity rules
and include projects that do not add capacity to the transportation system. PID
75303 is considered a non-exempt project. It includes a new access road and
park-and-ride facility, but it is included in the existing TIP and Plan. This
amendment makes no changes to the timing or scope of PID 75303 and OKI is
relying on the previous regional emissions analysis as detailed and adopted as
part of the June 2008 update to the OKI 2030 Regional Transportation Plan.

PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT
The OKI 2030 Regional Transportation Plan “Setting Your Transportation
Landscape” was developed with significant attention to public involvement.
Please refer to Chapter 2. Provisions for public comment on this Amendment
were provided through a month long public comment period and culminated in
public hearing held at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, March 9, 2009 at the OKI offices,
720 East Pete Rose Way, Suite 420, Cincinnati, Ohio. OKI advertised the
Amendment in mainstream and minority newspapers and through standing OKI
committees. This document was placed for public review in public libraries
throughout the region, at the Ohio Department of Transportation and Kentucky
Transportation Cabinet district offices and on the OKI website.

Through a qualitative evaluation, it is determined that the changes included in

this Amendment 2 - 2030 Regional Transportation Plan ensure that low income
populations and minority populations receive a proportionate share of benefits
from federally funded transportation investments.

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