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M E T R O P O L I T A N T R A N S I T C 560-6th Avenue North, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55411-4398 June 19, 1990 Mary Kueffner City Administrator City of Lake Elmo 3800 Laverne Avenue North Lake Elmo, MN 55042 Dear Ms. Kueffner: O M M I S S 1 O N 612/349-7400 The Metropolitan Transit Commission (MTC) is in the process of reactivating its bus shelter program. Due to budgetary constraints, the MTC's shelter development program was suspended in 1982. At present, the MTC maintains 628 passenger waiting shelters throughout the metropolitan area. Federal funding is now available to assist in building an additional 89 shelters. Local money must be used to fund 20% of the construction costs of the shelter program and to fund ongoing maintenance costs. The MTC shelter policy encourages the construction of passenger waiting shelters for bus stops which serve 40 or more boarding or transferring passengers on a typical weekday, with special consideration given to bus stops serving the elderly and the handicapped. Under the MTC's shelter program, the MTC will pay the total cost of the shelter installation if ridership is more than 40 passenger boardings per day. In cases where ridership is less than 40 passengers per day, the MTC will consider the shelter installation only if the community provides a portion of the local capital and maintenance costs. Providing a concrete base pad upon which the shelter could be placed, and agreeing to provide minor maintenance such as cleaning, would be ways in which the community could provide this local capital and maintenance cost sharing. At this time, the MTC staff has not identified any new bus stop locations in your community that have more than 40 passenger hoardings per day. We are, however, encouraging you to contact us if you are aware of any sites that you would like us to investigate further to determine if the site meets the passenger boarding criteria in the MTC shelter policy. In addition, we would encourage you to contact us if your city would be interested in participating in a cost -sharing arrangement with the MTC for the construction and maintenance of bus shelters at locations that do not have the minimum of 40 passenger boardings per day. Also, please contact us whether your community would be receptive to allowing advertising to be placed on MTC bus shelters as a means of providing a funding source to offset a portion of the ongoing maintenance costs of the shelters.