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M E T R O P O L I T A N T R A N S I T C O M M I S S I O N 560-6th Avenue North, Minneapolis,Minnesota 55411-4398 612/349-7400 May 30, 1990 Mr. Tom Burt, City Manager City of Saint Anthony 3301 Silver Lake Road Saint Anthony, Minnesota 55418 Dear Mr. Burt: 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 siting of passenger waiting shelters for bus stops which serve forty 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 forty passenger boardings per day. In cases where ridership is less than forty 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. If you are interested in pursuing bus shelters for your community, we would seek your input on the following issues: 1. Potential shelter sites in your community; 2. whether your city would be interested in participating in a cost-sharing arrangement with the MTC for the local share of the construction costs and ongoing maintenance of shelters. if a desired site does not have the minimum of forty passenger boardings on the average weekday; and 3. 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.