June 12, 2019

David Mohler, Chair

Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization

10 Park Plaza, Suite 4150

Boston, MA 02116

Re: Draft Federal Fiscal Year 2020 Unified Planning Work Program

Dear Mr. Mohler,

The Regional Transportation Advisory Council (Advisory Council) is an independent group of citizen and regional advocacy groups, municipal officials, and agencies charged by the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) with providing public input on transportation planning and programming.

The Advisory Council has reviewed and discussed the public review draft Federal Fiscal Year 2020 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) and offers the following comments:

1. We appreciate the MPO staff’s consideration of feedback provided by the Advisory Council on the initial UPWP project list. We note that a number of the Advisory Council’s priority projects are recommended for funding.

2. We are particularly pleased to see Project 13294, “TIP Before-and-After Studies.” We encourage the MPO staff to share any lessons learned from this study and perhaps use it as a template to make evaluation of projects a regular/recurring part of the process.

Once again, we appreciate the opportunity to express our thoughts to the MPO on the Unified Planning Work Program.

Sincerely,

Tegin Teich,

Chair, Regional Transportation Advisory Council

tteich@cambridgema.gov, 617-349-4615