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123 SPOTLIGHT: FUNDING PROGRAMS BOSTONBRT Within only a few years, the Barr Foundation's BostonBRT program has propelled bus rapid transit in the Greater Boston area from a topic of conversation and research to tangible projects. In addition to its funding for piloting BRT elements, the program has initiated a station design competition and social media campaigns, and it continues to look for opportunities to support iterations of local pilots.
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124 Implementing BRT in the Greater Boston area has been a goal of state and local entities in Massachusetts for years. In 2009, the Massachusetts DOT made a push for it, but without corridor-level engagement and local political support, community pushback derailed near-term implementation.
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125 expanding BRT across the region. The foundation wanted people to experience BRT features, and it wanted to continue the momentum its broader initiative had started.
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126 ETC PROGRAM Portland's Enhanced Transit Corridors (ETC) Pilot Program, a partnership between TriMet and Metro, is gaining momentum as a strategy for increasing the frequency with which cities in the Portland metropolitan region implement low-cost improvements in speed and reliability along some of the region's highest-priority corridors.
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127 The TriMet service within the City of Portland has slowed significantly in the past 8 years, leaving jobs less and less accessible to the city's growing population. Realizing that this was something that was happening across the region, TriMet and Metro decided to team up to apply the QuickBuild methodology at a regional level.
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128 (zero to 15% of the overall project) , at which point TriMet would continue to develop the project.
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