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Inter-Agency Agreement Advances Euclid Corridor Project
With the approval of the Inter-Agency Agreement from Cleveland City Council on July 16th, RTA is aggressively advancing the Euclid Corridor Project and is closer to fulfilling one of its most important goals - to secure a Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).
The FTA requires a full commitment from the local and state funding partners with all design, construction and on-going maintenance costs for the Project. The Inter-Agency Agreement is important because it contractually commits the RTA and the City of Cleveland to a financial agreement and solidifies the scope of work that will be maintained throughout the final design, construction and operational phases.
The City of Cleveland has already issued $2 million - of their committed $8 million - toward the Project's concept and preliminary engineering phases. The City will also pay for the repair or replacement costs of basement areaways and vault work, public utilities, traffic engineering and associated construction work.
Also in the agreement, the City and RTA have defined the responsibility for maintenance costs for the Bus Rapid Transit system. These include maintaining rights-of-ways, center median stations, utilities, snow removal, parking meters and street lighting and traffic signal systems.
RTA currently submits a New Starts Application to the FTA annually, which has funded portions of the project throughout its preliminary engineering and final design stages. The FFGA commits the FTA to fund the full balance of the project. The project scope, baseline schedule, 60 per cent design and final budget will be submitted for FFGA consideration in November 2003.
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