Multimodal
Funding &
Advocacy PRO WALK PRO BIKE PRO PLACE
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10
Stronger Together
Topics
Funding sources for walking
and biking
Targeting voters to win ballot
campaigns
Building coalitions and political
power
Discussion
Why are you here?
Public health – leveraging funding sources
Complete Streets – funding partners; framing
Removing an expressway
Funding projects in small cities
Inform agencies about available funding
Dedicated funding through collaboration
Creative collaborations for funding
Public private partnerships
Funding
sources for
walking,
biking, &
transit
DARREN FLUSCHE
POLICY DIRECTOR
LEAGUE OF AMERICAN
BICYCLISTS
ADVOCACY ADVANCE
Advocacy Advance
Partnership
Themes • Design & infrastructure
• Knowledge gaps
• Political will to design & build for bike/transit
• Bottom Line: Feeling of scarcity
Stronger Together
• Programs (Federal Funding)
• Policies
• Partnerships (Multimodal Ballot Measures)
http://bit.ly/FirstMileLastMile
Programs
Pedestrian Facilities and Transit
Eligible FTA Programs for Pedestrian Access:
» Urbanized Area Formula Grants (5307)
» Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants
("New Starts") (5309)
» Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants (5339)
» Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals
with Disabilities (5310)
» Formula Grants for Rural Access (5311)
Bike Access to Transit
Eligible FTA Programs for Bike Lanes:
» Urbanized Area Formula Grants (5307)
» Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants
("New Starts") (5309)
» Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants (5339)
» Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals
with Disabilities (5310)
» Formula Grants for Rural Access (5311)
Bike Parking at and on Transit
Eligible FTA Programs for Bike Parking:
» Urbanized Area Formula Grants (5307)
» Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants ("New Starts") (5309)
» Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants (5339)
» Formula Grants for Rural Access (5311)
Bikes on Buses
Eligible FTA Programs for Bikes on Buses:
» Urbanized Area Formula Grants (5307)
» Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants ("New Starts") (5309)
» Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants (5339)
» Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities (5310)
» Formula Grants for Rural Access (5311)
Roll-on Accommodations
Eligible FTA Programs for Roll-on Accommodations:
» Urbanized Area Formula Grants (5307)
» Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants ("New Starts") (5309)
» Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants (5339)
» Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities (5310)
» Formula Grants for Rural Access (5311)
Bikeshare FTA Bikeshare Eligibility
• Yes: bike share docks, equipment, and other infrastructure and amenities capital costs
• No: purchase bicycles, operational costs, system startup costs
Definition: bicycles not = public transportation
Eligible FTA Programs for Bike Share:
» Urbanized Area Formula Grants (5307)
» Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants
(5339)
» Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and
Individuals with Disabilities (5310)
» Formula Grants for Rural Access (5311)
http://www.fta.dot.gov/documents/Informal_
Q_and_As_Final_6-14-12.pdf
Policies
Ladders of Opportunity
• Prioritize transportation equity, social sustainability
• Increase access and opportunity for all users
• Remove barriers (physical & functional)
• Address environmental justice
Pedestrian and Bicycle Catchment Area
“Pedestrian improvements located within one-half mile & bicycle improvements located within three miles of a public transportation stop or station shall have a de facto physical and functional relationship to public transportation”
Benefit/ Cost Calculation
• Old: Disincentive for “superfluous” elements
New: New and Small Starts Evaluation and Rating Process Final Policy Guidance: "Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvements – All costs of this line item may be removed from the New Starts cost effectiveness calculation."
Flexibility/Transferring to FTA
“Once transferred to FTA for a public transportation purpose, these ‘flexible’ funds are administered as FTA funds and take on all the eligibility and requirements of the FTA program to which they are transferred”
Pittsburgh, whose bus fleet now has a bike
rack on every bus, flexed FHWA funds to
FTA to pay for the racks.
Lower Local Match in FTA
Partnerships
Demand for Multimodal Options
• 70% of millennials use more than one transportation option to get to a destination a few times a week or more (Source: APTA)
• 71% of older households want to live within walking distance of transit (Source: Reconnecting America)
Credit: Richard Masoner
Credit: noise64
Biking to Transit on the Rise
Bicycle-Transit Integration in the United States, 2001-2009, Journal of Public Transportation 2013
Influencing the Planning Process
Agency Staff
• Understand the flexibility in federal policy
• Focus on integrating ped/bike into current projects
• Identify high-demand, high-risk access locations
• Walk/Bike Audits
• Develop a multi-modal transpo plan
Advocates/Community
• Get to know your transit planning staff
• Engage in planning process early and stay with it
• Identify priorities
• Walk/Bike Audits
• Build public and political support for bike/ped/transit integration
• Get Out the Vote!
Winning Multimodal Ballot Measures
• More pressure on localities to raise revenue for local/regional priorities
• Broad multimodal coalitions, including Bike/Ped, can make the difference
Winning ballot
campaigns
CECE GRANT
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
AMERICANS FOR TRANSIT
We Are
Americans for Transit’s mission is to create, strengthen and unite grassroots transit rider groups.
Build a nation-wide coalition of grassroots transit rider organizations.
Provide on the ground support for local transit campaigns.
Waiting For Superman
SAFETEA-LU passed in 2005
For 10 years, we’ve Been Waiting
For Congress
What We Got was MAP-21
Sad State of Affairs
Loss Dedicated Funding for
Important Programs
No Transit Operating Assistance
No Transit Parity
Stripped Bike/Ped funding
Local Efforts/Local Funding
Pushing Agencies/DOT for Change
Advocates on Planning/ Agency Boards
Local Ballot Initiatives
GETTING THE “W”
Transit and Bike/Ped have won an impressive
string of victories
But we’ve also lost some close contests
Need to more strategically identify and
engage potential transit supporters
Turn out base for GOTV
Current Targeting Techniques
Target Democratic Districts
Walk Urban Precincts
Maybe have a phone list from
last campaign
Pass out Flyers at Farmers
Market & Bus Stops
Cross fingers & hope
Modeling & Microtargeting
• NEW TOOL PROVIDE CAMPAIGNS WITH PROVEN
METHODOLOGIES TO INCREASE VOTER TURNOUT
• DATA DRIVEN TOOLS & TACTICS
• MAKES YOU MORE EFFECTIVE AT IDENTIFYING YOUR
SUPPORTERS
• AND MORE EFFICIENT AT TURNING OUT YOUR BASE
We Ride, We Vote
Create a National Database of
Transit and Bike Supporters
Target and turn out Transit
Voters (Like Soccer moms, Gun
owners)
Can be used for other electoral
campaigns
GQR - National
Phone Survey of
10,000 Households
Primary Mode of
Transportation?
What Would Make You
Willing to Use Transit?
Would You be Willing to
Support Tax Increase, or
Pro-Transit Candidate?
National Transit/Bike Model
Matched survey results
back to Catalist voter
file
Leveraged consumer
and voter variables to
build model
Probability Scored
from 1-100)
Pennsylvania- Riders
Georgia- Supporters
Atlanta- Zip Codes
Keep in Touch
CECE GRANT
WEBSITE: WWW.AMERICANSFORTRANSIT.ORG
LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: AMERICANS FOR TRANSIT
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @A4TRANSIT
Building
coalitions &
political
power
BRIGHID O’KEANE
DEPUTY/ADVOCACY
DIRECTOR
ALLIANCE FOR BIKING
& WALKING
ADVOCACY ADVANCE
Pittsburgh: 3 Years as a Model
• $6.3M public funding
• We Bike. We Walk. We Vote. Campaign
• Appointment to SPC board
• Better Bikeways
• Green Lane 2.0
What we know:
Nobody is going to win for sustainable transportation alone.
B Together Coalition
• Prioritizes transit-oriented development (Transform)
• Restores cuts made in bus service (AC Transit)
• Increases funding for fixing potholes (Oakland)
• Provides bus pass for low-income students (Genesis)
• Relieves congestion at key bottlenecks (suburban cities such as Union City, Pleasanton)
• Creates good jobs, union jobs (building trades, ATU)
Why Multimodal Matters
• In California, every vote counts
• More groups involved, more votes
• Coalition activities: – campaign materials – fundraise – prioritizing where money is spent – partnering on outreach
Seattle: Sound Transit 2
As a result: real planning and
dollars
Columbia, SC
If at first you don’t succeed…try, try
again
• Inclusive planning process
• Build alliances
• Innovative funding
• Describe the benefits for everybody
• Agency-advocacy collaboration
• Accountability
• Don’t forget the grassroots
Building United Political Power
• Know who makes the decision
• Show officials what the people want
• Get on the campaign committee
• Again, don’t forget the grassroots
• Get out the vote
• Get a sense of your base
• Candidate surveys and forums
• Personalize the issue
• Be at the table to write polling questions
• C3 vs. C4
• Find inside champion(s)
• Create outside support
• Help staff, build trust
• Start with praise
• Many voices
Accountability… Goal
What do politicians usually most want?
If you don’t do _________ you will feel the impacts and/or not win your next election
Reports and Webinars
• Navigating MAP-21
• Federal transit funding
• State funding sources
• State Transportation Improvement Programs
• Funding innovative facilities
• Ballot measures
• Advocacy campaign plans
• Sep 23: Public-private partnerships
• Oct 21: MAP-21 2.0
• Nov 18: Health funding
• Dec 16: Maintenance funding
“Big Ideas” Grants
• 3 grants
• $10,000 each
• Apply by October 17
• Rapid Response Grants still available
Priority areas:
– Equity
– Safety / Vision Zero
– Health / walkability
– Innovative state and local funding
Contact Us!
Darren Flusche Policy Director League of American Bicyclists [email protected]
Brighid O’Keane Deputy / Advocacy Director Alliance for Biking & Walking [email protected]
Christy Kwan Outreach Coordinator Alliance for Biking & Walking [email protected]
Ken McLeod Legal Specialist League of American Bicyclists [email protected]
www.AdvocacyAdvance.org
Public Allies
Influencers
Decision maker