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2024 TRAFFIC RELIEF PLAN
PALM SPRINGS CITY COUNCIL
May 9, 2024
Aaron Hake, Executive Director
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Providing Transportation Solutions To Connect Our
Communities
•County-wide transportation
improvements
•Measure A
•Support Sunline, Metrolink, &
other municipal and specialized
transit operators
•Toll operations
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RCTC is Your Team
Coachella Valley Rail
Interchanges Transit Agency Operations
Funding
Highway
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2024 Traffic Relief Plan: Looking Forward
•Updates the 2020 Commission-adopted
Traffic Relief Plan
•Comprehensive aspirational plan
•Identifies more than $30 billion in
transportation projects across Riverside
County
•Not funded – unless approved by voters
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Coachella Valley
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•Coachella Valley Association of
Governments administers funding
distribution
•Transportation Project Prioritization
Study (TPPS)
•Vehicles Miles Traveled (VMT)
mitigation, support TOD/housing,
CVMSHCP
•Projects funding for multiple categories
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Economic Impact & Regional Investment
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Accountability to Taxpayers
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•Independent audits and
mandatory reviews
•Local Voice. Local Control – No
funds to be diverted to
Sacramento or Washington
D.C.
•No more than 1% can be used
for administrative salaries
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2023 Public Survey
•64% of Palm Springs, Desert
Hot Springs, Cathedral City
and surrounding area voters
initially support transportation
funding measure
•67% of Riverside County
voters initially support a
transportation funding
measure
•82% of Riverside County
voters see a need for
transportation funding
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Transportation Funding Support
Support for funding measure: Palm Springs, Desert Hot
Springs, Cathedral City and surrounding area voters
Support for funding measure: Riverside County Voters
Great or some need for funding
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