Art3_Fontana_FY17_Transit_7stops_ScopeRqst_CLOSED FONTANA : 1/26/18
CALIFORNIA
Cameron Brown
Senior Planner
San Bernardino County Transportation Authority
1170 W. 3rd Street,2nd Floor
San Bernardino, CA 92410
City Council cbrown@gosbcta.com
Acquanetta Warren
Mayor Dear Mr. Brown,
John B. Roberts In your letter dated October 16,2017,SBCTA awarded TDA Article 3 Transit Stop Access
Mayor Pro Tem
Program funds to the City of Fontana for seven bus stop locations. It has since come
Michael Tahan to our attention that one of the locations for which we were awarded funds is actually
Council Member outside City limits in County unincorporated jurisdiction. Omnitrans helped us prepare
Jesus"Jesse"Sandoval our grant application based on Omnitrans' database of locations that need
Council Member accessibility improvements, and Omnitrans' database had mistakenly shown Merrill at
Elm as being in the City, which it is not. The mistake was not caught before the grant
Council
Memmberber Jesse e application was submitted.
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I write to request that SBCTA allow the City of Fontana to use the $5,000 granted for
Merrill at Elm at an alternate location within the City of Fontana. The City proposes to
use the $5,000 at Baseline at Cherry (eastbound) instead, which actually has higher
ridership than Merrill at Elm - Baseline at Cherry has 17 daily hoardings compared with
6 at Merrill at Elm. The westbound side of Baseline at Cherry was improved by the City
in a previous round of Article 3 grants, but the eastbound side is still lacking an
accessible sidewalk boarding area between the existing sidewalk and the curb.
I look forward to hearing whether this request has been approved. Please feel free to
contact me at ikim@fontana.org or (909) 350-6724 if you need any additional
information.
Sincerely,
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Jeffrey Kim
Engineering Manager
City of Fontana
Department of Engineering
Cc: Nancy Strickert, Transportation Programming Analyst, SBCTA,
nstrickert@ciosbcta.com
CITY OF FONTANA 8353 SIERRA AVENUE, FONTANA,CALIFORNIA 92335
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