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  • Webinar Recording Available to Help You Decide How to Fund Your Community’s Bike/Ped Projects

Webinar Recording Available to Help You Decide How to Fund Your Community’s Bike/Ped Projects

Kids walk to school in Pocatello with their dog Bear on a road with no sidewalks and a blind curve.

Check out this webinar recording to learn which grant program is best to fund your active transportation projects. Ken Kanownik, who manages the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) at the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD), and Amanda LaMott, who manages the TAP and Children Pedestrian Safety Project (CPSP) programs at the Local Highway Technical Assistance Council (LHTAC), presented information to explain which program is best to fund your community’s projects. Cynthia Gibson, the Idaho Walk Bike Alliance’s Executive Director, facilitated the webinar. The webinar was a partnership between the Idaho Walk Bike Alliance, the Federal Highway Administration Idaho Division, ITD and LHTAC.
WHAT: Confused about TAP vs Children Pedestrian Safety Project Funding? Get Your Questions Answered.
WHEN: recorded online on Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 11:00 a.m. MST / 10:00 a.m. PST
LISTEN: online webinar recording

What Are the TAP and CPSP Programs?

Students celebrated Walk to School Day at Longfellow Elementary School in Boise on October 4. (photo courtesy of Katie Lamansky)

During the 2017 Legislative Session, a companion bill to major transportation legislation established a funding mechanism for children pedestrian safety projects on the state and local system. LHTAC and ITD developed a joint program to fund these projects. The Children Pedestrian Safety Program projects should be “bid ready” within 90 days of award and also “shovel ready” so construction can be completed by late fall or early winter 2018. The projects must be considered maintenance such as paths / sidewalks along an existing roadway, connecting sidewalks / paths between terminal points, ADA ramps, paving an existing pathway, and crossing facilities across an existing roadway including signing / signalization. Program guidance can be found here and information and links to the application here. Applications are due by December 21 at 4:30 p.m. MST.

ITD is now accepting applications for TAP projects. TAP provides federal funding for on- and off-road bicycle and pedestrian facilities such as sidewalks, bike lanes and crosswalks, and for Safe Routes to School educational projects such as coordinators and infrastructure. Projects must include a local cash-only match of 7.34%. Info and links to the application can be found here. Applications are due December 1 by 12:00 p.m.

The photos above show road conditions that could be made safer for bicyclists and pedestrians with funding from the TAP or CPSP programs.
   

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