Audrey AllumsMontana Department of TransportationState Programs MeetingDec 7, 2010Savannah

Montana Profile

VAIL

Yaak

ChicagoD.C.

Alzada

The distance between Yaak and

Alzada, Montana (744 miles) is greater than the distance between Washington D.C. and Chicago

Our largest city, Billings, has 100,000 people. State population is less than 1 million.

Access to services Medical Nutritional Recreational Educational

Access to transportation that will take the general public to the services that they need so that they can remain in small communities.

1. Missoula Ravalli Transportation Management Association Vanpool

2. Missoula Urban Transportation District Upgrade of downtown Transfer Center

3. Bozeman Additional fleet to increase service area and replace older buses

4. North Central Montana Facilities to support a regional transit system

MONTANA Project: Missoula Transfer Center Renovation

(Bus and Bus Livability)Sponsor: Montana Department of TransportationAmount: $119,000

Renovations to the existing Mountain Line Transfer Center will include streetscape and sidewalk improvements, signage, benches, expansion of office space, and installation of exterior solar powered lighting to increase the energy efficiency of the facility.

Statewide replacement of aging fleet vehicles

MONTANA Project: Missoula Transfer Center Renovation

(Bus and Bus Livability)Sponsor: Missoula Urban Transportation DistrictAmount: $ 590,000

Renovations to the existing Mountain Line Transfer Center will include streetscape and sidewalk improvements, signage, benches, expansion of office space, and installation of exterior solar powered lighting to increase the energy efficiency of the facility.

Objective 1: Identify and understand Federal agency programs and practices related to or supporting the livability principles.

Objective 2: Ascertain what peer states are doing to address livability.

Objective 3: Identify and understand Montana community-level definitions of livability. The definitions may vary according to the diversity of communities across Montana from urban to rural to extremely rural.

Objective 4: Identify practices and policies MDT and other state agencies have in place that meet the six livability principles.

Objective 5: Determine potential opportunities for MDT to meet the six livability principles.

Meeting all other state agencies to discuss how public transportation weaves through all state agencies and how do we coordinate

Attendees: Transportation Health and Human Services Labor Office of Public Instruction Department of Environmental Quality Corrections Justice

Results Grid that includes all transportation funding in the state Emphasis areas that have action teams working on

coordination of efforts.