Monroe County Transit: Existing Conditions Analysis

EXISTING CONDITIONS ANALYSIS

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8.3.5 Florida Highway Beautification Council Grant Program The Florida Highway Beautification Council through the Department of Transportation provides funds for landscape beautification projects on Florida’s roadways. The funding is a matching grant of 50 percent. 8.3.6 Florida Communities Trust Land Acquisition Grants Loans and Matching Grants. The Florida Communities Trust as part of the Department of Community Affairs

eligibility guidance to clarify how FDOT interprets which specific projects are eligible in Florida. The final decision on eligibility for the city’s projects remains at the discretion of District 6, which meets with MPO members and Monroe County Commissioners throughout the year to determine any projects they and their constituents would like to bring into the Work Program. 8.3.3 Highway Safety Funds The FDOT State Safety Office awards subgrants to traffic safety partners who undertake priority area programs and activities to improve traffic safety and reduce crashes, serious injuries, and fatalities. Funding for these subgrants is apportioned to states annually from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) according to a formula based on population and road miles. Applications for this type of funding are open between January 1 and the last day of February. 8.3.4 Scenic Highways The Florida Keys Scenic Highway runs from Mile Marker 110, north of Jewfish Creek Bridge, to Mile Marker 0 in Old Town Key West. Both the scenic highway and the Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail cross Key West on parallel routes. While the National Scenic Byways Program does not directly fund designated highways, there are Florida-based programs that support scenic highways and other active transportation improvements relevant to this Plan.

Figure 8.9:Multimodal Facility