NOTE: If you require any accommodations in order to participate or experience technical difficulties during the meeting, please contact Abby Cutrumbes Heerema, MPO Staff, at acutrumbes@ctps.org or 857.702.3682.

Agenda updated before 12:00 PM, March 14, 2025

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

Conference Rooms 2 and 3, 2nd Floor, 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116

March 20, 2025, 10:00 AM (Estimated duration: 3 hours and 12 minutes, expected ending at 1:12 PM)

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

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Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions, 5 minutes

2. Chair’s Report, 12 minutes

3. Executive Director’s Report, 5 minutes

4. Public Comments, 20 minutes

5. Committee Chairs’ Reports, 5 minutes

6. Action Item: Approval of February 6, 2025, Meeting Minutes, 5 minutes (to be posted)

7. Action Item: Congestion Management Process (CMP) Objectives, Priyanka Chapekar, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve the set of objectives identified for the MPO’s CMP, 15 minutes (posted)

8. MetroWest Regional Transit Authority (MWRTA) and Cape Ann Transportation Authority (CATA) Capital Investment Plans, Tyler Terrasi, MWRTA, and Felicia Webb, CATA: Presentation and discussion on MWRTA and CATA’s Capital Investment Plans and project selection processes, 20 minutes

9. Break, 10 minutes

10. Federal Fiscal Years (FFYs) 2026–30 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Preliminary Project Programming Scenarios, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation and discussion on preliminary project programming scenarios for the development of the FFYs 2026–30 TIP, 90 minutes (posted)

11. 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.