Full Text of HB2587 93rd General Assembly
HB2587sam001 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. James T. Meeks
Filed: 4/20/2004
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2587
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2587 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Department of Transportation Law of the
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| Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding | 6 |
| Section 2705-321 as
follows:
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| (20 ILCS 2705/2705-321 new)
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| Sec. 2705-321. Illinois Transit Ridership and Economic | 9 |
| Development (TRED)
Pilot Project Program; new facilities and | 10 |
| service.
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| (a) Subject to bond fund appropriation, the Department of | 12 |
| Transportation shall establish the Illinois Transit
Ridership | 13 |
| and Economic Development (TRED) Pilot Project Program to build
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| transit systems that more effectively address the needs of | 15 |
| Illinois workers,
families, and businesses. The Illinois TRED | 16 |
| Pilot Project Program shall provide
for new or expanded mass | 17 |
| transportation service and facilities, including rapid
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| transit,
rail, bus, and other equipment used in connection with | 19 |
| mass transit, by the
State, a public
entity, or 2 or more of | 20 |
| these entities authorized to provide and promote public
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| transportation in order to increase the level of service | 22 |
| available in local
communities, as well as improve the quality | 23 |
| of life and economic viability of
the State of Illinois.
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| The Illinois TRED Pilot Project Program expenditures for |
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| mass transportation
service and facilities within the State | 2 |
| must:
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| (1) Improve the economic viability of Illinois by | 4 |
| facilitating the
transportation of Illinois residents to | 5 |
| places of employment, to educational
facilities, and to | 6 |
| commercial, medical, and shopping districts.
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| (2) Increase the frequency and reliability of public | 8 |
| transit service.
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| (3) Facilitate the movement of all persons, including | 10 |
| those persons who,
because of age, economic circumstance, | 11 |
| or physical infirmity, are unable to
drive.
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| (4) Contribute to an improved environment through the | 13 |
| reduction of air,
water, and noise pollution.
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| (b) Under the Illinois TRED Pilot Project Program, subject | 15 |
| to bond fund appropriation, the Department shall fund
in fiscal | 16 |
| year 2005, in coordination and consultation with other | 17 |
| government
agencies that provide or fund transportation
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| services, the Illinois Public Transportation Association, and | 19 |
| transit
advocates,
projects as specified in subsection (c). | 20 |
| Total funding for each project shall
not
exceed $500,000 and | 21 |
| the funding for all projects shall not exceed $4,500,000.
The
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| Department shall submit annual reports to the General Assembly | 23 |
| by March 1 of
each
fiscal year regarding the status of these | 24 |
| projects, including service to
constituents
including local | 25 |
| businesses, seniors, and people with disabilities, costs, and
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| other
appropriate measures of impact.
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| (c) Subject to bond fund appropriation, the Department | 28 |
| shall make grants to any of the following in order to create:
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| (1) The Altgeld Gardens - Ford Supplier Park Rush-hour
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| service, which shall provide rush-hour-only service (6:00 | 31 |
| AM to 10:00
AM and 3:00 PM to 7:30 PM) that shall start at | 32 |
| 130th Street and State
Street and go directly to Altgeld | 33 |
| Gardens (stopping at the store in the
center of Altgeld | 34 |
| Gardens), then leave Altgeld Gardens and go directly
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| Ford supplier park on 130th Street, then to 130th and | 2 |
| Torrence
Avenue (the Ford production plant), then north on | 3 |
| Torrence Avenue with
at least one stop close to Washington | 4 |
| High School, then to the shopping
plaza at 95th Street and | 5 |
| Stony Island. After completing its route, the bus
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| turn around and
go back on the same route. Service shall be | 7 |
| every 20 minutes.
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| (2) The Pilsen/Lawndale Demonstration Project, which
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| consists of the following:
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| (A) Pilsen Commercial route, which shall create | 11 |
| weekday bus service
to support the 16th and 18th street | 12 |
| commercial district. Service shall begin at
Cicero and | 13 |
| Cermak and proceed along 16th Street and then 18th | 14 |
| Street to
Michigan
Ave. This service shall run on | 15 |
| weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and then
from 6 | 16 |
| p.m. to
10 p.m.
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| (B) Lawndale-to-the-Loop Rush hour express route, | 18 |
| which shall
create an extended rush-hour-only express | 19 |
| service (4:00 a.m to
9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 | 20 |
| p.m.), starting at Pulaski and
Cermak and traveling | 21 |
| along Ogden and Polk with limited stops
between | 22 |
| Pulaski, the Medical District, and the Chicago Loop.
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| (3) The Intertownship Transportation Program for | 24 |
| Northwest
Suburban Cook County, which shall complement | 25 |
| existing Pace service and involve
cooperation of several | 26 |
| townships to provide transportation services for senior
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| and disabled
residents across village and township | 28 |
| boundaries that is currently not provided
by Pace
and by | 29 |
| individual townships and municipalities.
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| (4) RIDES transit services to Richland and
Lawrence | 31 |
| Counties to extend transit services into Richland and | 32 |
| Lawrence
Counties and enhance service in Wayne, Edwards, | 33 |
| and Wabash Counties that
share common travel patterns and | 34 |
| needs with Lawrence and Richland
counties. Funding shall be |
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| used to develop a route structure that
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| social service and general public requirements and
obtain | 3 |
| vehicles to support the additional service.
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| (5) Peoria Regional Transportation Initiative, which
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| shall fund the development of a plan to create a regional
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| transportation service in the Peoria-Pekin MSA that | 7 |
| integrates and
expands the existing services and that would | 8 |
| allow local leaders to
develop a funding plan and a | 9 |
| timetable to secure final political
approval. The plan is | 10 |
| intended to facilitate regional economic development and
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| provide greater mobility to workers, senior citizens, and | 12 |
| people with
disabilities.
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| (6) Rock Island MetroLINK/Black Hawk College
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| Coordination Project, which shall provide a deeply | 15 |
| discounted,
semester-based bus pass for unlimited travel | 16 |
| on any MetroLINK bus route
to students and faculty at local | 17 |
| community colleges to increase
ridership on the | 18 |
| metropolitan bus system and better link community
college | 19 |
| students with transportation alternatives. | 20 |
| (7) The West Central Transit District to serve Scott | 21 |
| and Morgan Counties. Funding shall be used to develop a | 22 |
| route structure that shall coordinate social service and | 23 |
| general public requirements and obtain vehicles to support | 24 |
| the service.
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| (8) Community College Coordination Projects, which | 26 |
| shall provide deeply discounted semester-based bus passes | 27 |
| for unlimited travel on any Champaign-Urbana MTD, and | 28 |
| Danville Mass Transit bus routes to students, faculty, and | 29 |
| staff at Parkland College, and Danville Area Community | 30 |
| College to better link community colleges with | 31 |
| transportation alternatives.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 33 |
| becoming law.".
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