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Agenda posted before 4:00 PM, March 27, 2025

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

Transportation Board Room, 2nd Floor, 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA

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

Please note:     This meeting will be followed by a Unified Planning Work Program Committee meeting beginning at approximately 2:30 PM.

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Meeting Agenda

1.       Introductions, 5 minutes  

2.       Chair’s Report, 2 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 20, 2025, Meeting Minutes, 5 minutes (to be posted)

7.       Action Item: Work Scope: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Service Equity Analysis, Sophie Fox, MPO Staff: Presentation and discussion, and vote to approve the work scope for the MBTA Service Equity Analysis, which will support the MBTA in monitoring the equity impacts of its incremental Bus Network Redesign service changes by comparing relative impacts across schedule periods, 5 minutes (to be posted)

8.       Action Item: Federal Fiscal Years (FFYs) 2025–29 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Amendment Ten, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to endorse FFYs 2025–29 TIP Amendment Ten, 10 minutes (posted)

9.       MBTA Capital Investment Plan, Mike Malia, MBTA: Presentation and discussion of the MBTA’s Capital Investment Plan, a financially constrained, annually updated, rolling, five-year program that funds the planning, construction, and maintenance of MBTA assets, 30 minutes

10.   Break, 10 minutes

11.   Action Item: FFYs 2026–30 TIP Final Project Programming Scenario, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve a final programming scenario for the FFYs 2026–30 TIP, 90 minutes (posted)

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