Short Range Transit Plan 2008-2013 - Omnitrans

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OMNITRANS COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT
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• From an operations/service delivery perspective, a need to ensure that the
Access shared-ride ADA public paratransit services not inherit the transportation
requirements (including the administrative and financial burden) for programspecific
travel requirements.
Omnitrans has recently embarked upon a marketing/communication strategy to educate program
providers, organizations, and agencies as to the effective use of subscription trip bookings to ensure the
consistent and reliable transportation of program participants. These efforts will require ongoing dialogue
with County officials to ensure the coordination of Public Transit – Human Services Transportation
Coordination Plan outcomes.
5.6 SANBAG Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP)
SANBAG is currently updating San Bernardino County’s CTP to the year 2030. Goals, objectives,
performance indicators and alternative transportation scenarios are being defined and analyzed to create
a preferred plan alternative. In cooperation with local agencies, this work has involved updating the
socioeconomic forecasts to the year 2030 and the base year streets and highway network for the CTP
traffic model.
The updated CTP will:
• Identify transportation improvements and strategies to enhance system
performance and achieve emission reductions to meet air quality requirements;
and
• Integrate goods movement strategies currently under development and serve as
a basis for action programs to be implemented through the Congestion
Management Program.
Public transit plays a significant role in the development of CTP goals and objectives. Initiatives such as
the Omnitrans sbX Systemwide Plan, the Omnitrans sbX E Street Corridor Project and the SANBAG
Redlands Passenger Rail Station Area Plan play a critical role in the development of transportation
scenarios and congestion management strategies.
5.7 SCAG Compass Blueprint 2% Strategy
Growth in Southern California is expected to result in the addition of another six million people (another
two “Chicago’s”) over the next 30 years. In 2001, the Southern California Association of Governments
(SCAG) began an ambitious study to examine how the region should grow. In 2004, the results indicated
that if growth were concentrated in only 2% of the land area of Southern California, the region could
accommodate the growth while still maintaining the single family neighborhoods that make up Southern
California cities. But in that 2% area, largely in built up areas and along existing and proposed transit
corridors, densities would have to increase and efforts would have to be made to integrate land uses so
as to improve the jobs-housing balance. Since 2004, SCAG has been undertaking a series of studies,
entitled The Compass Blueprint 2% Strategy, which is a guide for how and where to implement SCAG’s
Growth Vision for Southern California. While recognizing valuable quality of life goals, the Compass
Strategy provides a guide to local decision-makers, demonstrating how minor changes in land use and
transportation decision-making can reap unexpected economic, mobility, and environmental benefits
locally, sub-regionally and regionally.
The Strategy proposes increasing the region’s mobility by encouraging transportation development and
transit-oriented development focusing on in-fill development and redevelopment opportunities. SCAG
and the Compass Blueprint team of consultants are offering free planning services to assist local
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