NOTE: If you require any accommodations in order to participate or experience technical difficulties during the meeting, please contact Sam Taylor, MPO Staff, at staylor@ctps.org or 857.702.3702.

Agenda updated at 10:00 AM, April 16, 2024

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

April 18, 2024, 10:00 AM (Estimated duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes, expected ending at 12:30 PM)

Civil Rights, nondiscrimination, and accessibility information is on page 3.

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Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions, 2 minutes

2. Chair’s Report, 2 minutes

3. Executive Director’s Report, 5 minutes

4. Public Comments, 5 minutes

5. Committee Chairs’ Reports, 5 minutes

6. Regional Transportation Advisory Council Report, 2 minutes

7. Action Item: March 21, 2024, Meeting Minutes, Vote to approve these minutes, 4 minutes (posted)

8. TIP Development: MassDOT Highway Projects, John Bechard, MassDOT staff: Presentation and discussion, 15 minutes (posted)

9. Action Item: Federal Fiscal Years (FFY) 2025–29 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Document, Release for Public Review, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Vote to release this amendment for its 30-day public review period, 10 minutes (posted)

10. Action Item: Federal Fiscal Years (FFY) 2024 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) Amendment Two, Srilekha Murthy, MPO Staff: Vote to waive the public comment period and endorse, 15 minutes (posted)

11. Action Item: Regional Transit Authority (RTA) Representation on the MPO Board, David Hong, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve representation, 30 minutes (posted)

12. Sustainability and Decarbonization in the Freight and Logistics Sector in the North Suffolk Area, Erin Maguire and Shravanthi Gopalan Narayanan, MPO Staff: Presentation and discussion of the findings of the discrete study on sustainability and decarbonization in the freight and logistics sector in the North Suffolk County area, funded in the FFY 2023 UPWP, 25 minutes (posted)

13. Beyond Mobility, Derek Krevat, MassDOT staff: Presentation and discussion on the Beyond Mobility, the Massachusetts 2050 Transportation Plan, 20 minutes

14. Members’ Items: Reports and notices by MPO members, including regional concerns and local community issues, 5 minutes

CIVIL RIGHTS NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

Welcome. Bem Vinda. Bienvenido. Akeyi. 欢迎. 歡迎.

You are invited to participate in our transportation planning process, free from discrimination. The Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is committed to nondiscrimination in all activities and complies with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin (including limited English proficiency). Related federal and state nondiscrimination laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of age, sex, disability, and additional protected characteristics.

For additional information or to file a civil rights complaint, visit www.bostonmpo.org/mpo_non_discrimination.

To request accommodations at meetings (such as assistive listening devices, materials in accessible formats and languages other than English, and interpreters in American Sign Language and other languages) or if you need this information in another language, please contact:

Boston Region MPO Title VI Specialist

10 Park Plaza, Suite 2150

Boston, MA 02116

Phone: 857.702.3700

Email: civilrights@ctps.org

For people with hearing or speaking difficulties, connect through the state MassRelay service, www.mass.gov/massrelay. Please allow at least five business days for your request to be fulfilled.