Title
An Ordinance approving a cooperative agreement for funding operations of Operation Green Light Traffic Control System by and between the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri and the Mid-American Regional Council, and authorizing the Mayor to execute an agreement for the same. (PWC 2/13/23)
Body
Issue/Request:
An Ordinance approving a cooperative agreement for funding operations of Operation Green Light Traffic Control System by and between the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri and the Mid-American Regional Council, and authorizing the Mayor to execute an agreement for the same.
Key Issues:
· The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) hired an independent consultant to perform a regional arterial traffic signal coordination system feasibility study, known as “Operation Green Light”, for the Kansas City Urban Area including facilities under the jurisdiction of the Missouri Department of Transportation, which includes the City of Lee’s Summit (City), as well as the other Member Agencies of MARC.
· The feasibility report prepared by the independent consultant recommended that traffic signals within the Jurisdictional Boundaries of all of the Member Agencies be coordinated from a single Regional Traffic Management Center;
· Improvement in traffic operational efficiency, air quality and monetary savings to the Member Agencies and the public can be realized from consolidated management approach of coordinated traffic signal control along arterial corridors in the roadway systems of each Member Agency, including the City.
· The City participated in Operation Green Light causing MARC to design, construct and coordinate participating signals for the City.
· The City and MARC wish to enter into an Agreement which describes the parties responsibilities in funding the cost of operation of a Regional Traffic Control System, and implementing and operating such a system.
Background:
Operation Green Light (OGL) is a metropolitan-wide project to standardize and link traffic...
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